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Message: [QUOTE="MadDogRevival, post: 2408225, member: 8028"] We have people saying this is prevalent in Africa, and here you are saying it's a western cultural phenomenon. Millions of people pay big bucks to darken their skin every day, and nobody claims they have an identity crisis. Your central theory is that people who want lighter skin have an "identity crisis," which means that something is wrong in their brains - they are not seeing the world clearly, as you believe you are, they are broken somehow. You completely discount the notion that somebody can want lighter skin and not have a mental issue. That's insanely offensive. Worse, it's racist. If you weren't being racist, you would also be hopping around concerned about white people getting tans. But you're not. No mention of that. Your form of racism is particularly disturbing because it's subtle and insidious. Light skinned people darken skin - perfectly normal brains. Dark skinned people lighten skin - brain issue (all of them!). Racism. [/QUOTE]