Why is the colorism discussion always centered on dating?

[EMY]

Why is it that colorism is only ever brought up in regards to dating and attraction, and never the fact that dark skins are killed by police more often and receive harsher prison sentences because of the same hyper-masculine stereotypes that are supposedly an “advantage” for straight black males?

 

[Savvir]

Why is it that colorism is only ever brought up in regards to dating and attraction, and never the fact that dark skins are killed by police more often and receive harsher prison sentences because of the same hyper-masculine stereotypes that are supposedly an “advantage” for straight black males?

source?

 

[BigMan]

because ppl only care about colorism when it affects their dating lives or someone's preferences.

 

[SATAN]

Gonna need a source, breh. You're really saying darkskins get better treatment from police than lightskins...

Colorism is brought up regarding the entertainment industry, politics, and the workplace as well.

 

[Sensitive Christian Grey]

Cos it’s women who begin the conversation like that

 

[EMY]

Gonna need a source, breh. You're really saying darkskins get better treatment from police than lightskins...

Colorism is brought up regarding the entertainment industry, politics, and the workplace as well.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2018.1508736

 

[EMY]

source?

 

[Swagnificent]

Because sex is at the center of everything. Its what drives all human interaction.

 

[SATAN]

This is complete nonsense

All it says is "chance of arrest". Under what circumstances were arrests happening?

What are the criteria for skin color here?

Any random person could've made up this chart out of thin air.

How are you this naive?

 

[Emoryal]

This is complete nonsense

All it says is "chance of arrest". Under what circumstances were arrests happening?

What are the criteria for skin color here?

Any random person could've made up this chart out of thin air.

How are you this naive?

Different Shades of Bias: Skin Tone, Implicit Racial Bias, and Judgments of Ambiguous Evidence

 

[Emoryal]

Gonna need a source, breh. You're really saying darkskins get better treatment from police than lightskins...

Colorism is brought up regarding the entertainment industry, politics, and the workplace as well.

Sure. The better question to ask is why is it mostly brought about dating? And the answer is simple.

 

[Burned Verses]

Same reason why the body positivity movement exists, a lot of women hate rejection and dealing with any type of preferences or standards. But to be clear I do think it’s an issue.

 

[EMY]

This is complete nonsense

All it says is "chance of arrest". Under what circumstances were arrests happening?

What are the criteria for skin color here?

Any random person could've made up this chart out of thin air.

How are you this naive?

did you read the source I posted at all? The article gives context to the info graphic

 

[Asicz]

Kind of a smart dumb topic thread but here we go.


Black women are statistically are around 1 % of police homicide cases.

And not locked up as often as black men, although darker complexioned black women according to a study get harsher sentences than lighter complexioned black women.

 

[Dwayne_Taylor]

Because IMO the conversation is mostly online which skews younger and female.

Like Op said darker men deal with more arrests, longer prison sentences, job discrimination, lower grades in school, banking discrimination ....

things that really affect people's lives rather than trivial stuff like dating choices.