Posted on 08/20/2023 6:54:12 AM PDT by Libloather
Socialist icon Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) raised eyebrows recently by saying politicians must free the sunscreen industry - from the clutches of the government.
In a TikTok video posted last week, the New York congresswoman joined esthetician Charlotte Palermino on camera to make the case that government regulations have hindered the industry.
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Grace Fors, writing at Socialist Alternative, takes AOC to task for saying the sunscreen industry should be deregulated. Interestingly, Fors doesn’t even bother with the pretense that the FDA is “protecting people” from harmful products; she’s concerned that AOC is helping profiteers in the $110 billion-a-year skin care industry.
“The beauty industry is fundamentally sexist, racist, and anti-worker,” she writes. “Ever-evolving methods of psychological warfare via advertising convince us to buy an endless stream of products that promise freedom from the insecurities the CEOs and strategists planted and exacerbated.”
Fors might sound like a socialist crank, and there’s something grotesque about being more interested in sticking it to capitalists than allowing consumers to purchase sunscreens that offer more protection against skin cancer. Yet Fors is right that these regulations have little to do with safety or protection.
I won’t claim to know AOC’s motivations for calling out the FDA’s bureaucratic dysfunction, but it’s clear she recognizes that the U.S. is completely out of sync with the rest of the world when it comes to sunscreen. As a result, Americans annually descend on beaches with sunscreens that, according to the Washington Post, “dermatologists and cancer-research groups say are less effective.”
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After Congress, AOC intends to take up a career as a Puerto Rican cane field worker, a job that matches her skills & experience. She wants really good sunscreen to slow the browning & wrinkling.
Nevermind the studies that showed sunscreen actually causes cancer- that becoming public knowledge would shut down too large an industry.
I had to doubletake this one to make sure it wasn’t the Babylon Bee.
Guess where AOC’s next big campaign contribution is coming from.
Okay, horseface, now let’s try going from the specific to the general as regards government regulation,
Its disturbing how journalism focuses on who takes what position on a topic more than just informing readers on the topic.
Everyone I know who has had skin cancer lectures me for not using sunscreen.
Sunscreen makes people more white. It should be banned as racist. /s
The irony of wearing sunscreen to prevent cancer only to have it cause cancer. I wore it for years only to get skin cancer twice which didnt suck nearly as bad as the lymphoma that may have been caused by it.
Would it be less cancer than the skin cancer I've had removed?
Because that's been quite a bit. My arms are scarred from the removal, I have a few scars on my face and I can't even tell you about the top of my head and all that's been removed from there.
That's RECENTLY for me, and it's from 45 years ago having spent the summers in the cornfields of Iowa detassling corn, doing farmwork and occasionally, just enjoying being a kid.
Sunscreen? WTF was that back then??
LOL.
“ Everyone I know who has had skin cancer lectures me for not using sunscreen.”
I use Hawaiian Tropic oil. No sunscreen. Love the tan.
The active ingredient in sunscreen is Para-aminobenzoic acid, sometimes known as PABA. PABA is a vitamin. Instead of using the cream, I took PABA by pill. Works great.
I don’t like the “arms race” of SPF levels. 15 is now the minimum and it goes to 100 and beyond. I would like a nice 4 or 8 so if I spend all day outside it’s like spending an hour or two in the sun. You can’t find that anymore.
so does AOC
I use Hawaiian Tropic Silk Hydration spf 30 or Coppertone Sport. They do not coat you in white but are clear.
If no sunscreen on my face I turn red in an hour and a half for a few days.
I have a dark tan but once sunburned on my face I start peeling for a week. No sunscreen on the rest of me and no peeling or sunburn.
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