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Race is socially constructed, but skin colour is not - it's a physical attribute. Emojis literally offer people the choice to use "Light Skin Tone", "Medium-Li
by teachingassist 5y ago
Race is socially constructed, but skin colour is not - it's a physical attribute.
Emojis literally offer people the choice to use "Light Skin Tone", "Medium-Light Skin Tone",
"Medium Skin Tone", "Medium-Dark Skin Tone" and "Dark Skin Tone".
Those are not racial differentiators.
- fossuser 5y agoYeah you're right of course - and that's the strongest argument in favor of them, but given how modern society operates today where people use skin tone as a (the main?) racial differentiator, the emoji's imply more than that. If it was just hair color or something it would be different. It shouldn't be different (imo) and hopefully we eventually get to a world where they're just physical attributes. I just don't see this kind of thing helping in the mean time.