Comment on Nobody uses the white emojis
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
I use them because I want to push back against the assumption that white is the default. If not-white people pick a skin tone and white people stay yellow, then yellow gets read as white, not color-neutral.
And yes, it felt so awkward to choose the white emoji at first.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s the same reason I stick with yellow. I’m not comfortable sharing my race in the wild, yellow is the unifier.
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Fair! Yellow as anonymizer makes sense. I tend to use emojis in forms of communication where people already know me, like on discord and professional channels.