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It's up to you to decide if someone setting the colour of a couple of pixels on the screen is "deliberately drawing attention" to it vs. just a cute customizati
by mikestorrent 1y ago
It's up to you to decide if someone setting the colour of a couple of pixels on the screen is "deliberately drawing attention" to it vs. just a cute customization that makes people feel included. Probably instead of picking a few tones we should just let people go full RGB on masked colours in the emoji so we can have green people too.
- nomdep 1y agoAdding a skin color, let's say a thumbs-up with a black skin tone, its saying: "this is not just a thumbs-up, its different, it's a BLACK thumbs-up". See how racist it is?
- Devorlon 1y agoPersonally, no I don't see it.
- nomdep 1y agoWithout knowing anything about the particular person, in what ways a black thumbs-up is different than a non-skinned thumbs-up? Adding a skin-tone is saying there ARE differences, but any difference you can name are actually prejudices about blacks. What was meant to be a simple "ok", "agree", etc. now is charged with an "I don't think you/others and me are the same kind of humans". That's why using skin-tones in emojis is actually racist.
- numpad0 1y agoIt's racial caricaturization to emphasize and perpetuate racial divisions. Exact same as things like "Chinese eyes". It's not like rainbow flags at all, and almost absurd that this is considered dignified representations than straight up racism.
- account42 1y ago> It's not like rainbow flags at all It actually is. Sexual preferences also have no place in professional communication or really any non-intimate communication.
- AlexeyBelov 1y agoHeterosexual people can use rainbow flags...
- mikestorrent 1y agoOnly "Extremely Online" people think like this; you should consider going outside and touching some grass.