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
I've used ✊ as a certain flavor of "fuck yeah" before
✊🏻 hits wayyy different than that
"Time for your discussion about which emoji thumbs white people should use to solve racism!"
Reparations plsWe 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
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
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.
Oh shit I don't have Vbucks. Will you accept Robux instead? I really need to know.
I don’t have an answer for you, but I am offering a position at the Democracy Institute for Equality and Business Think Tank
I've never seen anyone use anything but 👍
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
Just seems like an extra step for emoji I already barely use to be honest. Occasionally use like 👍🏽 or smth, but I mostly just hit the default simpsons one. In any case it's a very weird thing to police
I don’t see why it’s weird lol. The entire point of the skin tone update was to give people more customization for basic, cartoon expressions. I would be more weirded out by people if they told me they felt weird about using their skin tone cause they’re too white
Since you're going around saying "I don't get it". The thing here is that it's a drop down menu, I guess. If white was the menu default, then that's what white people would use, but yellow in an emoticon context is already coded as white (despite the broader cultural context where it's East Asian), so going out of your way to pick a more explicitly white tone is weird. You say that the purpose is for "expression" and then deny that it expresses anything. My question is why would someone feel the need to express more explicitly that they are white?
This doesn't matter, but if you showed me a lengthy text message and asked me about a specific use of "can't" over "cannot", I could probably give you an assessment of something like that as well if you really wanted one. No one here thinks this is an important issue, but they are attempting to articulate an opinion in response to the particular claim made.
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
"Your honor, my client had sent a brown-skin emoji before he started rapping"
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
As a white person
In all seriousness, how do I tell if I'm white? I keep thinking about another user's example of Assad. He appears white-passing, but his name, religion and nationality would each be enough for him to be considered non-white in the US.
And is a case like that one where it actually matters to what extent the person identifies with whiteness?
It's funny. Most of my great grandparents wouldn't have been considered "white" in their early years in America, yet here I am, undisputably white. White Hispanics are another one that feels kind of nebulous. I also saw a clip of an Irish comedian saying he visited America and he doesn't have white guilt because in Ireland "we planted the potatoes, and then dug them up ourselves"
In conclusion, whiteness is bullshit and needs to be destroyed.
Then there's the Irish who left for America because there weren't any potatoes to pull up (not edible ones, anyway), were discriminated against but eventually their descendants were accepted into the white hegemony, and nowadays benefit from American white privilege.
That'd be me, and I definitely have white guilt and will not by using the white power emoji.
Plus I'm a huge Simpsons fan 👍
Yeah, I'm not saying it's a perfect retort but I think in this case it's pretty clear that snow roaches using the yellow emojis is better.
I swear. If people talked to me about this shit IRL I would suspect them of being a federal agent more than someone talking about blowing things upFrr seriously, that take feels like a surefire way to create dozens of separate interpretations and a thousand confused, circular arguments between them. Instead of just having people admit the obvious, they'd rather we go the long way and alienate each other unintentionally. Not good for much else.
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.
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.
Thank you so much I just played around with this and had so much fun
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Oh believe me I found a ton more 🥺 ones, though bottom-peas might be the best
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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?