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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 79 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In case you were wondering:

Vitiligo occurs when pigment-producing cells (melanocytes) die or stop producing melanin — the pigment that gives your skin, hair and eyes color. The involved patches of skin become lighter or white. It's unclear exactly what causes these pigment cells to fail or die. It may be related to:

  • A disorder of the immune system (autoimmune condition)
  • Family history (heredity)
  • A trigger event, such as stress, severe sunburn or skin trauma, such as contact with a chemical
[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She’s also right at the age where it often presents itself. But yes stress can cause it to appear or suddenly spread.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right - of course it would be difficult to pin the onset of vitiligo to stress, but I wanted to post this because my first reaction was one of strong skepticism. (There's a lot of propaganda out there.) I checked myself and looked it up.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

People from countries like Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine look much older than people from relatively stable (as in not bombed constantly) countries like Jordan, Iran and Egypt. The wealthy gulf countries have a much younger looking people for the most part.

You can definitely see the stress of war And opression ageing people fast.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 2 points 12 hours ago

Yes, but that aged look from years of stress isn't vitiligo.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Reminds me of the kid in come and see transitioning from a normal pre-teen to a broken old man through numerous war crimes.

[–] PTSDwarrior@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Wow. I keep meaning to watch this movie but I just can't bring myself to watch it.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In a few years, perplexed Israelis will be trying to explain the next round of violence with "they hate us because we're Jewish".

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fuck this timeline where so far the two biggest political parties in the US, sponsor the mass murder & torture of children.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Well to be honest - though the US is taking most of the flak, because they supply the vast majority of the arms, almost all major political parties of the western world are supporting Israel throughout this genocide. "Strongly worded diplomatic cable, but we won't stop shipping arms supplies" is about as far as it's gone for the UK, Germany, Italy, Australia and dozens of others. Only late last year Canada and like literally this week France have stopped arms exports, as far as major powers go.

So yeah I agree with the 'fuck this'. The only major party in my country (Australia) that vowed to stop arms exports to Israel (the Greens) has been repeatedly smeared in the press and attack ads as 'anti-semitic' for the last two years - ever since they started advocating loudly for Palestine. They got ~12% of the vote in our last election just a couple of weeks ago, with a -3% swing away from them, so I guess the smears worked. Our far right parties (One Nation & Trumpet of Patriots) got just over 8% by comparison, to give you an idea of the climate down here. Israel's govt is winning the propaganda game even though we have video evidence of their crimes and they often even admit them openly, it's sickening.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sometimes this is called Marie Antoinette syndrome because this supposedly happened to her during the French Revolution. Of course, unlike this girl, Marie Antoniette deserved it.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I've never heard that story about Marie Antoinette before. I rather doubt it. But certainly she deserved it.