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Exactly

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

All lives matter vibes

We have to be careful with the way we speak if we don't want to alienate people. So: Will we deny reparations to black and brown people, or will we deny them to people of color?

This is why we need revolution, to make sure people use emojis right 😞

To be fair to conservatives... there are 61 comments in here

Liberal media has literally folded into making the parody articles that Alt Righters would write about them 5 years ago. Every serious ideologue has either doubled down on their worst traits or crossed over to the actual left

👍

The only worthwhile take on this whole post.

If you have calipers on hand, could you take the normal measurements of your skull and send them to me? I'll get back to you within 3-7 business days on which emoji is most applicable. Please include $20 dollars in vbucks as payment.

I don’t have an answer for you, but I am offering a position at the Democracy Institute for Equality and Business Think Tank

Some of my poc friends use the brown ones. I wouldn't give them a hard time about it. But speaking as someone who is white passing using the white skin emojis would be too weird

my mom is brown, and uses the brown ones, but the brown one is way darker than she is and so it just seems kinda off. It's like, mom, your skin tone is Halle Berry, not Grace Jones

(i'd never tell her that tho)

For the next 5 minutes, every white person who responds with a brown-skin emoji gets to be honorary

I feel like it will always be a catch 22 with no right answers on an individual level until racism has been dealt with structurally. As a white person, you cannot be ethically pure in the world as it is, even though obviously something like this is really trivial

I don't identify with whiteness because I'm 1/8 Irish and celts aren't white.

I think its one of those liminal things, sorry for using that word. You shouldnt identify as white because its not a thing but theres no going around the fact that your skin is white and the rest of the world perceives you as white.

I feel like I mostly buy into this but I also don't believe in the radlib sense of endless guilt, wokescolding and apologizing for it.

You should use the white skin emoji is written by someone who works from home and never leaves the house. All their interactions are through social media.

Like, there should be spheres of communication and they dont all overlap with eachother. The shit you say to your IRL friends doesnt make it out to your public Instagram page because you cant make the same type of qualitative and quantitative social agreements on the broad internet space that you can with your IRL friends.

yeah but 🐈‍⬛ or 🐈?

:::spoiler Thank you so much I just played around with this and had so much fun

Thank you for telling me about this!

my smile does not stretch around them like that

y so srs

Simpsons Appropriation

It's the Simpsons emoji

Extremely telling that you don't even know where the setting is (it's in "Themes" btw). Your privilege is showing

On iOS, you just long press on the emoji you want to change the skin color of.

It's obviously going to vary based on your OS.

You're telling on yourself.

If you’re from the future, this will tell you if it has one: 😭🏻

i get irrationally angry every time i see a 😭 or 💀

Only 💀 should be white, and it is, so the rest can be removed

[This is a joke]

I'm honestly a little suspicious of anyone who uses the white 👍. I feel like the only people who care enough to explicitly use it instead of the yellow are either virtue signalling liberals or white supremacists. I'm probably reading far, far too much into people's emoji choices though.

I'm white, but I'm also fairly confident no one gives a shit. The Simpsons colored one isn't to be "raceless." It's just the default. It's for anyone (not just white people) who don't care to broadcast their race to people or just can't be bothered changing it. This article is a solution looking for a problem.

Asian here. If a white guy came to me and gave me some 20 minute analysis on why white emojis are racist so that’s why he doesn’t use them, I will assume he’s a trust fund neoliberal and advocates for genocide in third world countries. I am not kidding. Take that as you will

When i used slack for work it like automatically collected the different skin tones together

But your honour, my liver failure and resulting jaundice has in fact left me bright yellow.

Just make the default skin tone white instead of yellow. It’ll be right for the majority of users anyway

Have you considered :|

Welcome to the Unicode era ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic

as if Tim apple has every engineer working on black emojis

"Just one more thing... we've had the entire Apple staff travel to Africa with calipers and spectrometers to scientifically determine the perfect average black emoji."

We have that, but only for the default smiley face:

Or how about glowstick white?

blue lives don't, in fact, matter

Shiva likey

REAL AND BASED. We need more cat emojis frfr