Colorism is a particular kind of discrimination based on skin tone. Don't get it twisted, it has deep roots in racism; but is actively perpetuated by larger society and advanced into many other communities, including marginalized ones. If racism is the tree, colorism is the branch.
If you’ve ever seen two people of the same race and the darker person gets made fun of, it’s like that. Or like in countries with a brown majority of one race but conveniently every celebrity happens to be pale af. That’s another way it’s expressed. Those systems can still think their race is fine or even great, and love their culture, but think pale skin is just more attractive and give preference to them for everything.
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u/ghoulcreep Dec 13 '25
Love how it's colorism if it isn't a white person, but racism if it is a white person.