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goodguydick t1_jebe4gj wrote

Reply to comment by TrumpterOFyvie in TIL in the 1920s, Coco Chanel accidentally got a tan, and helped inspire the trend of sunbathing. Soon "sunlight therapy" was prescribed for almost every ailment from fatigue to tuberculosis. Before this, tanned skin was associated with the lower classes who work outside, and fair skin was revered. by Pfeffer_Prinz

You can be racist to a group without being exposed to them

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TrumpterOFyvie t1_jebfinn wrote

Keep grasping at straws. The preference for pale white skin back in those days as an indicator of class had nothing whatsoever to do with race.

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