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wdym Elsie Silver used the word "dirty" to describe a tan person’s skin color…
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Anonymous 3w

Yeah… I’m selling all my copies now…

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Anonymous 3w

Excuse me what??

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Anonymous 3w

yup :/

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Anonymous 3w

I’m genuinely so confused by that paragraph. What was she even trying to go for here?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

Taking her shit off my TBR

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

Oh yay i love seeing authors talk like my elementary school bullies :/

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

The fact that she mentions knees specifically makes me understand it a little more bc when the skin isn’t stretched they always look a little darker than the rest of your skin tone but like. I don’t. I don’t get why she thought this was wise. Aside from the racist undertones, it’s just confusing to read. Are his knees dirty or clean then? How dark of a tan is this? Human skin has warm tones that dirt distinctly lacks, so does his not have that? Is it ashy? Wtf is going on here

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 3w

She’s trying to describe hyperpigmentation and failing. Really bad.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 3w

I don’t understand it at all 😭😭she could have used ANY other word that doesn’t have a negative meaning…

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

She also never had to talk about his knees 😭 something really notable about really tanned white people is how bright or even bleached their teeth, eyes, and hair look, so she could’ve just talked about that 😭😭

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