Submitted 7 months ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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I use them and the yellow ones interchangeably. They happen to be the same color as my skin which is why I sometimes use them. But I’m not attached enough to go looking for them when the generic yellow is easier.
I don’t use them with strangers though. Mainly because I don’t feel like randomly announcing my skin color to people I have never met and will never meet when it adds nothing at all to the conversation.
it’s funny i only know one person that uses these and he is basically a fascist
also i know this single person who is white but uses the black thumbsup for some reason
Hey, it was descriptive, not prescriptive (nobody uses them Vs nobody should use them). There was no attack (and I’ve never met anyone who would say such a thing), don’t worry! 😊
I don’t need people knowing I’m white, I have a reputation to uphold
Just use the yellow ones. No need to add useless skin colour to emojis.
We are all one in the Simpsons
Adding skin colour was dumb to begin with. Bright yellow was just perfect for everyone you know.
ish, but somehow it ends up that yellow is white people.
look at the Simpsons for example, the default is yellow, but other skin colours are their normal colours, like black/asian.
same happened with legos.
it’s weird because any colour you choose for a “default” will end up mapped to the “cultural” default, rather than for everyone.
might be because I’m racist. but for me all the xkcd figures are white, even though they are not racialised.
any colour you choose for a “default” will end up mapped to the “cultural” default
Now I’m wondering if this has ever been tested on black Africans, in homogeneously black communities, do (or did) they perceive the yellow emoji as foreign/alien in any way?
Probably difficult or impossible to test, admittedly…
Because emojis are stupid?
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Emojis started off yellow and never really implied any skin colour.
I don’t use any, black or white. I ain’t racist and have words.
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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.
That’s the same reason I stick with yellow. I’m not comfortable sharing my race in the wild, yellow is the unifier.
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.
My mom switched to them recently. It felt vaguely racist, I don’t know
Did you feel that way when your non white friends did it though?
I see some whites do it but it started after the non whites started picking the proper shade.
All colored emojis feel racist to me. Even the white ones.
Adding race to something that didn’t have it before is by definition racist. Because all your doing is creating racial divides where there was none before.
It also reinforces the original color as the cultural normal. Instead of it just being generic.
So yellow went from being just a thing to bring white. Cause now black or tan are “other” then default.
Personally, I did a little bit, but then I looked up all the emojis available and my eyes glazed over and went insane for a moment.
I use them after a POC friend said they thought it was cool when white folks use them and i've never heard anyone complain about it before this thread. It never occurred to me before that but i have many kinds of privilege so i'll make any simple accommodation like that I can.
No, and that’s the part that makes it feel weird
because it doesn’t matter what colour they are.
I use them. I’m not a character from The Simpsons.
I don’t really see any reason to not use the default yellow, frankly
Dito. It also feels more inclusive since noone is yellow (unless you have liver failure)
I agree, as a white person, that yellow seems more neutral. But, then people who are slightly not white are always eager to switch. I also feel some people have a skewed idea of how brown they actually are and will pick a shade or two darker than their real skin tone.
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paraplu@piefed.social 7 months ago
I don't use any of the emoji that could have a skin tone. I will occasionally use emoji, but don't find that the faces or hands are useful.