The internet is a weird place – on some days it’s just plain annoying, on other days, people actually get to learn a little. With so many voices on these platforms, we can try and make informed opinions. On the other hand, it also reflects how a number of these voices can be deeply ignorant. A recent post by Harsh Goenka on band-aids is an example.
![Harsh Goenka on band-aids matching skin tone](https://media.blogto.com/articles/20210506-316-heal-in-colour-toronto-3.jpg?w=1200&cmd=resize_then_crop&height=630&quality=70)
The RPG Group chairman is quite active on Twitter, and this time he posted something that has the internet divided. Harsh Goenka posted an image of band-aids of different skin colours. But that’s not it – he also captioned the image – “Was matching skin tones really necessary…… some innovations don’t make sense.” This opinion didn’t make sense to a lot of people, given that they found it ignorant.
The idea of a band-aid is to heal, sure, but it also covers our bruises and scrapes in a way that it looks like nothing happened. That’s quite literally the point of the “nude” colour – so that it camouflages with the skin. But again, we hardly find colours that match all our skin tones. So, seeing band-aids that do that, looks like a step in the right direction. In a way it’s inclusive – because people can actually see their skin tone being represented.
And Harsh Goenka’s dismissal of these facts upset people on Twitter.
Something to think about.