If a person took the extra effort to send me the white thumb emoji instead of the yellow one I would assume very mean things about them
Exactly
I've used โ as a certain flavor of "fuck yeah" before
โ๐ป hits wayyy different than that
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
"Time for your discussion about which emoji thumbs white people should use to solve racism!"
Reparations pls
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?
We will give reparations to BIPOC, but only in the form of an IMF loan, with 200% interest rate
This is the shit that conservatives think we care about
This is why we need revolution, to make sure people use emojis right ๐
As an Asian person, am I supposed to use the yellow emoji or the white emoji if that's closer to my actual skin tone?
Please help me crowdfund to get an answer from America's foremost emoji raceologists.
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've never seen anyone use anything but ๐
This feels like an attempt by Big Emoji to get people to actually use the other ones
Not like us here, with our prodigious amounts of quality, original emoji
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
i always make mine brown some of my friends do, most dont. yellow makes me feel like a Simpsons character. no one cares.
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)
Every white person who selects the non yellow emoji is automatically sus
For the next 5 minutes, every white person who responds with a brown-skin emoji gets to be honorary
This is radlib quibbling through and through, but I want to add a refutation anyway:
There was discussion before on this site about how nominally white people shouldn't identify with whiteness. Isn't this an example of that, however trivial? Unless I'm a racist, why would I ever want to go out of my way to further identify myself with whiteness? I won't deny that my experience is one of being white and in fact want to be transparent about it, but that's not the same as wanting to append "as a honky" to every statement I make. That's White Pride shit (i.e. shit)
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 almost exclusively use the cat face emojis
yeah but ๐โโฌ or ๐?
Depends on which of my cats was a brat to me recently.
I use an Android with gboard so I only use giant combo emojis. If you aren't using these you need to be. It's the one thing Google has done right in like 20 years.
:::spoiler Thank you so much I just played around with this and had so much fun
This is the kind of shit you think about when you don't give a shit about capital literally destroying the Earth in real time
Why does my emoji have to match my real body? I type :) all the time but I can confirm my eyes are not two dots and my smile does not stretch around them like that..
my smile does not stretch around them like that
y so srs
am I doing this right?
I'm just terminally jaundiced ๐
It's the Simpsons emoji
Iโve never felt the need to go into my settings to change my skin color. I wouldnโt even know where to find the setting.
Extremely telling that you don't even know where the setting is (it's in "Themes" btw). Your privilege is showing
A modest proposal: Only ๐ญ should have a white skin color option. Lmao
I did think about this a few years ago and opted for ๐. I feel a little weird when I see the white reacts used by others. This is not so much of a problem anymore but Slack/etc used to not stack the reacts, so if everyone was thumbs-upping you'd have a bunch of different ones instead of just one count and it made voting with ๐๐ more difficult. If nonwhite comrades tell me they prefer the white ones I'll switch but I suspect nobody gives a shit.
I'm honestly a little suspicious of anyone who uses the white ๐. 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.
Average radlib Mastodon take
"I, [Server Admin], have banned you because your bio says you are white but you racistly chose to racistly use the default racist yellow thumbs up emoji. You have done real racist harm to our community with your racism and must be held accountable, you bigot. Yes, this is praxis and I am protecting the marginalized."
My base skin color is ๐๐ป but my hands are somewhere between ๐๐ผ and ๐๐ฝ
Basically, Iโm doomed to use โ
But yellow is the default...I have to go out of my way to use the other ones because my keyboard's auto complete just fills this in with no other option
It's times like these that I'm thankful to be from an older generation with no need for emojis beyond :) and :(
It has nothing to do with racism. They are just dads
Meanwhile, people are hungry and can't feed their kids and the planet is choking
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
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