Sweden's issues: White bandages are racist.

[Kyriakos]

Thread topic/links originally found at TWC.

It is about the horrible lack of black bandages, which is attributed to racism. (although apparently, at least in the US, there was an attempt to introduce black bandages, but the company went bankrupt due to very poor sales)

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015...ing-off-again/

http://cnsnews.com/blog/susan-jones/...ges-are-racist
"A complaint by a feminist, anti-racist ‘blogger’ has prompted a Swedish pharmacy chain to search out a manufacturer of ‘dark’ band-aids".

A discussion on government-funded Radio Sweden precipitated the controversy, as a spokeswoman for the national Apoteket chain of pharmacies went head-to-head with Every Day Racism blog author and Left-party campaigner Paula Dahlberg.
Triggering a national discussion about whether sticking plasters are a symptom of something more sinister, Dahlberg said the beige coloured patches were symptomatic of what she called the everyday “whiteness norm” where manufacturers presumed their customers to be white by default.
She said on radio: “Usually I try and find a clear plaster, to try and be a little more discreet, precisely because there are no plasters available close to my skin colour… its part of what is usually called the whiteness norm, that white people are normal”.
White people currently make up around 90-per-cent of the Swedish population.
Pharmacy spokesman Eva Fernvall was absolutely horrified to have the charge of racism levelled at her, and remarked “It is a bit embarrassing that we haven’t thought of it ourselves”, promising to stock darker hues in future.
She may very well struggle. It seems the production of the familiar beige plasters is a matter of economics – they sell well and are profitable. An article in magazine The Atlantic recalls the fate of previous attempts to produce sticking plasters in any shade of human flesh as long as it wasn’t pink.
Despite being very popular with political activists, ‘Ebon-aid’ plasters marketed in the United States in the 1990s sold only 20,000 boxes of their original one million pack production run, bankrupting the company and costing the investors their start-up capital. Such a noted public failure of the product might curtail interest by potential manufacturers for the time being, at least until there are more “new Swedes” to buy them, as it is put by the Swedish Free Press.

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What do you think of this new moral outrage? Is the religion of Sweden now Social Justice?

Sweden Yes.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Greece's issues: being broke.

 

[Kyriakos]

Being broke is not a privilege.

 

[gay_Aleks]

But getting billions of euros sure is!

 

[Kyriakos]

Yeah.

But this is not about glorious Greece, but glorious Sweden

 

[Verbose]

Apart from the fact that there aren't really any band-aid coloured people (unless someone very ill and/or unfortunate), it's not exactly as if Swedes invented the issue — it's not new or original...
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/the-story-of-the-black-band-aid/276542/

 

[gay_Aleks]

I don't see what's to discuss. You're yet railing against Sweden, someone will tell you that it's wrong, you'll ignore it, the sun will rise again, the ice caps will melt, and all will continue as ever.

 

[NovaKart]

This is like the hurricanes don't have African American names story.

 

[gay_Aleks]

A non-existent issue which certain people keep throwing and saying something like "see, PC speech out of control!"

 

[Kyriakos]

I don't see what's to discuss. You're yet railing against Sweden, someone will tell you that it's wrong, you'll ignore it, the sun will rise again, the ice caps will melt, and all will continue as ever.

It is supposed to be a light-hearted thread

 

[NovaKart]

I'm reading the story now about ebon aid. The guy who made it was Greek from Cyprus.

 

[Kyriakos]

I'm reading the story now about ebon aid. The guy who made it was Greek from Cyprus.

Makes sense. Sought easy money. Ended up broke (and likely in some jail with a german drunkard as a guard).

 

[NovaKart]

I'm still waiting for hurricane Tyrone.

 

[gay_Aleks]

To be fair, why do hurricanes get named in first place? Can't we just number 'em? I guess that it's harder to "sell" Hurricane 123 rather than Hurricane Katrina for media.

 

[NovaKart]

They used to be named according to longitude and latitude but naming them made them easier to identify. You might end up with several tropical storms close together.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Makes sense, I guess, considering the whole Hurricane Alley business.

 

[classical_hero]

"And the weather service has warned us to brace ourselves for the onslaught of Hurricane Barbara. And if you think naming a destructive storm after a woman is sexist, you obviously have never seen the gals grabbing for items at a clearance sale."

 

[Loppan Torkel]

What do you think of this new moral outrage? Is the religion of Sweden now Social Justice?

Sweden Yes.

I don't know. We only see news that get by the non-pc-censorship. All is fine in Sweden. Except for the mysterious rise of fascist parties that continues to puzzle both political leaders and media. Truly unexplainable.

 

[PicturesquePict]

Except for the mysterious rise of fascist parties that continues to puzzle both political leaders and media.

Sweden's nationalists or fascists as you wrote above (I think "Swedish" would be a wrong term here, so I write Sweden's):

I guess the bottom four have seen the crap around the world and won't let Sweden turn into one, while the top four have no clue what's going on outside Sweden, think it can't possibly get worse, and are turning Sweden into a kind of country from which the bottom four had immigrated (or their parents).

Is my diagnosis correct?

 

[Zkribbler]

I think we should name Hurricanes after famous dictators. Hurricane Hitler, now this is a scary name.