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Back in the day emoticons/emojis/whatever were just bright yellow cartoons. No race, no gender. It was fine. Combined with ASCII text it was pure communication
by goatinaboat 7y ago
Back in the day emoticons/emojis/whatever were just bright yellow cartoons. No race, no gender. It was fine. Combined with ASCII text it was pure communication unfettered by any prejudice. Then like everything else on the internet it all became weirdly political almost overnight :-/
- tokai 7y agoI wouldn't say everything was all fine with the yellow smiley face. It's was somewhat associated with rave culture. I had a teacher in the early 90's that hated the smiley face, because he connected it with ecstasy.
- WilliamEdward 7y agoHow exactly are differently coloured emojis political or prejudiced?
- goatinaboat 7y agoSlack wants to know my “skin tone”. Why does that matter in a technical discussion? Would it matter in a real meeting or an interview even? It’s only there because some people want to make it matter. I just use the default yellow.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> Slack wants to know my “skin tone”. Why does that matter in a technical discussion? Slack isn't just for technical discussions. > Would it matter in a real meeting or an interview even? Almost certainly, yes, whether or not it should. > It’s only there because some people want to make it matter. More accurately, it's only there because it does, in fact, matter to some people. But that's true of every way of expressing any difference of meaning in any communication medium.