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Because it "erases Blackness and centers whiteness as a default", that's the standard answer. Yellow codes for the default, which is whiteness. Or said another
by hrjykrlfkfk 5y ago
Because it "erases Blackness and centers whiteness as a default", that's the standard answer.
Yellow codes for the default, which is whiteness. Or said another way, white skin is the only unracialized skin color. Thus the supposedly neutral yellow stands for it.
- virologist 5y agowe are talking about yellow here. not black or white.
- selfhoster11 5y agoYellow is a stand-in for "any skin tone".
- nobodywasishere 5y agoYellow is stand-in for white
- selfhoster11 5y agoProof? Besides, we've got to have some sort of skin tone to stand for skin tones that are absent or not given for some reason. It's got to be _some_ colour, and it might as well be yellow.