Is Elastoplast racist ?

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I feel uncomfortable using Elasoplast on a patient with black skin.

Is it racist ?

Yes plasters are racist.

What?? Am I missing something?? Plasters can be racist? Fuckers.

Yes. Maybe they should all be bright colours. Or you could get a brown permanent marker and colour some in beforehand :p

I have started to use clear ones now

nailak, don't be so quick to pour scorn, eh?

Of course it's racist that plasters are a default "white skin" colour. They are made that colour so that they blend into white skin. They do not blend into a lot of other skin colours.

Similar arguments can be made when that off-white colour is referred to as "nude" or "flesh".

The ridiculousness is talked about here

They are racist! You're totally right! Make a point of buying the primary-coloured ones next time.

well, they are "skin" coloured, but they are not

...'tis just like the "flesh" coloured crayons that have since been named something else.

Is elastoplast different colours in different countries depending on the predominant ethnicity?

I guess some are trying to blend with white skin, but Elastoplast?

If I was that funny pink colour I would be worried!

wow. i'd never even thought about it til now, but you're right...

Tights are in this same racist category!

If anyone's skin is the same colour as Elastoplast they should be fucking worried

starballbunny it does not blend with black skin, it is a funny pink colour !

Especially the blue stuff

Well, there are a greater variety of colours of tights.

Probably still not enough, but there are some.

It amazes me that people think this is a non-issue. It's only in the last couple of years that there's been a better selection of make-up colours Asian/black women.

Wow, can people really not see that Elastoplast is coloured that way so that it, on some level, blends into white skin?

Most plasters look wierd on me - I'm very pale skinned, they are much too dark. Maybe in the uk where the majority of people are white it's just a business decision to cater to the largest number of consumers? Like most makeup brands in this country offering far more options for white skin, and just a few for black.

well I think it is designed to be skin coloured

After all, they just want to make as much profit with as little outlay as possible.

Yes, there's definitely no other ways that non-white people are discriminated against in this country, so obviously this isn't a thing either.

so saladcravings it's ok for companies to exclude people based on their race because they are just out to make a profit.

Well, ok, then.

are there more white people in the uk?

that's a genuine question because i (shockingly) don't know.
i'd have thought that there must be as many people with other skin colours surely?

i've never seen plasters that are darker to blend in with other skin tones... does anyone even make them? i bet they don't

I bought plasters in Italy and they were clearly for a more olive skin tone than those you can buy in Britain.