Fundamentally, racism is the belief in race. It's bad because the whole concept of race is flawed and therefore applying it to anything else is flawed. However

Fundamentally, racism is the belief in race. It's bad because the whole concept of race is flawed and therefore applying it to anything else is flawed. However, skin tone is real and skin tone does not equal race. So I don't think skin tone emojis are racist. Rather, I think your argument should be that skin tone emojis will be "triggering" for racists.