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Indeed. 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!
by tomp 5y ago
Indeed. 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.