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To me it seemed less racist when we all had yellow hands. Then again I think poc is a silly term - non Europeans have completely different experiences and cultu
by nailer 5y ago
To me it seemed less racist when we all had yellow hands. Then again I think poc is a silly term - non Europeans have completely different experiences and cultures from each other even within the US.
- darkhorse22 5y agoIt's surely a firable offense, but part of me is so tempted to give a dark-skin-tone thumbs up in Slack as a white guy.
- xenocratus 5y agoI've seen it happen - I'm just curious why? Don't think it's fireable or anything, just... weird.
- darkhorse22 5y agoWhen I'm bored at work I imagine ways to sew discord with tasteless emoji. It's not a sincere temptation.
- alchemst 5y agoSuper minor note: it's "sow" (as in spread seeds, "reap what you sow" "sow wild oats) as opposed to "sew" (needle and thread...)
- fighterpilot 5y agoThere was a piece on NPR saying that it's trivializing the experiences of black people. As usual, normal people don't have any problem with it, it's just a small clique of journalists and activists.
- prepend 5y agoI’ve wondered about this but I’ve never seen anyone use an emoji thumbs up in anything but yellow. I can’t imagine ever setting it to match my skin color, but it would be neat to learn about people who want emojis that look more like them. If anything, I’d be more likely to choose a color far away from my skin.
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- DHPersonal 5y agoI do it because it’s a way to personalize my message and share a bit of who I am through my text. The emojis are there to emulate my face and hands during speech, so making them look like me too is helpful to conveying a little more of what a face-to-face conversation would offer.
- kbelder 5y agoGiving the (somewhat silly) existence of all the colors of emoji, I think the best solution would be to have the software randomly pick a color every time one is displayed. That's the best 'race doesn't matter' statement.
- fomine3 5y agoTo extend, why not gif animated rolling color emoji?
- tomp 5y agoIndeed. Yellow was race-neutral - nobody's skin color. Then the race-ist emojis started... and discrimination sky-rocketed (e.g. there's still no ginger emojis!).
- crooked-v 5y agoYellow is more neutral than specific light-to-tan skin tones, but it's certainly not neutral in regards to everyone. Or, to put it another way - if the default for all emoji was a dark magenta skin tone, would you consider that "race-neutral"?
- smegger001 5y agoprobably would yeah
- tbihl 5y agoI think you'd mostly consider it bad design for the lack of contrast. But, yes? I'm not sure what you're getting at.
- nailer 5y agoYes dark magenta would be as fine as canary yellow was.
- account42 5y agoYes, dark magenta would be fine. But must importantly, there was no race associated to the Unicode code points before and rendering was entirely up to the font choice. Now there is a defined skin color.