It doesn’t get whiter than this
Screenshot Image description: Hundreds of naked white people gathered and holding hands before an ocean shoreline. Some closest to the water have their hands raised. Caption at the bottom in black font on a white background reads: “People stand naked on Sydney's Bondi Beach to raise awareness of skin cancer.”
White people think this is irony but the irony has flown right over their naked heads.
Screenshot Image description: Black font on white background reads: “Thousands of Australians strip for Tunick cancer awareness photo shoot.”
White people in Australia get skin cancer because:
They strip naked and run around in the sun even though they come from Europe where there isn’t much sun year round so their skin isn’t used to tanning.
They pour toxins into the air, water, and soil which has destroyed the balance of nature and much of our planet’s protective atmosphere.
They use poisonous beauty and cleaning products and don’t even think that maybe these products are poison and will harm their body.
They spread hate and fear through war and genocide everywhere they go and that leads to the accumulation of stress and mental illness which can lead to physical symptoms like cancer.
Meanwhile, they’ll tell you to watch out for skin cancer while frolicking naked on a beach on Indigenous land they stole from Aboriginal tribes through war and genocide. They won’t see the irony of genocidal people raising awareness about death by skin cancer.
Can you imagine what the Black and brown people in Sydney must have thought when they saw a bunch of naked white people amassed on the beach? I imagine they thought much the same as any Black and brown people in the US. Black and brown people everywhere know that white people naked en masse is always a bad sign.
What do I mean by this? Have you never noticed that one thing white people love to do is show up to some sacred Indigenous space and strip naked, thus forcing the Indigenous families there to leave because their children are no longer safe? White people do it everywhere they go. It’s a well known behavior pattern of white people. Their white feminists call it “smashing the patriarchy” but really they’re just colonizing the land. When a few white people do this in one area, more show up in that area to do the same thing. They stick together and multiply, growing and growing, infecting everything, attacking any healthy Indigenous community until those people are so few in number that they can’t fight back, like an immune system so relentlessly depleted that they can’t fight cancer. Then, the beach looks like this:
Screenshot Image description: Hundreds of naked white people gathered and holding hands before an ocean shoreline. Some closest to the water have their hands raised.
So you see, the white people really don’t understand the irony of this stunt. They don’t understand their relationship with and to cancer.
White people: Stop befouling sacred Indigenous land with your nonsense performativity and rabid nakedness. No one enjoys it except you.
There is a solution, however. It’s a simple solution, both safe and effective. Put your clothes back on and give the land back to the Indigenous peoples you stole it from.