It doesn’t get whiter than this

Zarna Joshi
3 min readNov 29, 2022

White people think this is irony but the irony has flown right over their naked heads

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.”
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Black font on white background reads: “Thousands of Australians strip for Tunick cancer awareness photo shoot.”
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White people in Australia get skin cancer because:

  1. 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.
  2. They pour toxins into the air, water, and soil which has destroyed the balance of nature and much of our planet’s protective atmosphere.
  3. They use poisonous beauty and cleaning products and don’t even think that maybe these products are poison and will harm their body.
  4. 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…

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Zarna Joshi

Writer, organizer, spiritual activist, anti-imperialist, decolonizing smasher of the patriarchy, zarnajoshi.com, zarnajoshi.com/blog