The different skin color emoji thing is the perfect encapsulation of Social Studies Warrior madness inspired political correctness.
It's a yellow face, you bunch of fragile fucks. It's not white. Hell, if anything the Asians should've been offended.
Legit I think it was more a representation thing. People wanted emojis that would represent their skin color.
Like, how is that a "perfect encapsulation of [...] madness", the adults weren't claiming the yellow emoji was racist or anything. Just that a lack of representation was wrong.
How does it hurt you that they included normal skin colors in emojis?
Also, Cream - shut the fuck up and leave. You're mentally ill. Seek help.
Y'all would think sincerity and caring = mentally ill lmao
Because now we have people losing their shit over (white) people sending emojis that don't match their skin color, calling it insensitive at best and insinuating or accusing them of being racist at worst.
I mean, a very small percentage of people are gunna lose their shit over lots of things so that's the first thing you gotta get over.
More importantly though, it is a conversation that should take place. Like, you have to actively choose to send a black emoji, you're making some kind of statement there. Nobody is suggesting that we make it illegal for white people to send black emojis, but racial insensitivity doesn't just manifest in real life, it can manifest on the internet too. There's nothing extreme about that Code Switch post, I think it's a measured look at this kind of thing.
I mean, y'all already talked to death about this, I just wanted to point out that emoji representation isn't madness. Being incensed over people talking about emoji representation is a little extreme though.
It's so fucking trivial and basically requires an person to automatically assume dinner of the worst possible intentions of motives on sending a different skin color emoji. Assuming the worst of people is exactly the problem we have in general.
It's not a conversation that needs to take place. It's a thing people need to get over.
See I don't think it requires a person to automatically assume the worst of possible intentions.
It just requires a person be genuinely curious as to why a white person would actively choose to send out black emojis. It's not some random happenstance, there is a reason. Also, it's not necessarily trivial, it could in fact be malicious.
But right there you're still assuming I'll intention.
"What reason could you POSSIBLY have to send a different skin color emoji... unlesssssss....."
Who gives a shit why they're using it if there is no clear ill intent? Just accept it and move on instead of making it into some big drama.
If the person is clearly acting maliciously, then yes, it's wrong and they need to be told to stop.
Wait see here's the thing, you're expecting a few things:
1) "unlesssssss" like, that's not at all what it's about. They could be using black emojis for whatever, but they had to actively choose to use them so there was a reason at one point. Whether it's out of ignorance or misguided solidarity or prejudice or whatever. Talking about that with someone isn't attacking them or judging them.
2) That I or any other social studies warrior gets worked up at every misuse of emoji skin color. If my white friend was doing it, I'd talk to them, if some rando online is doing it, I can't police every rando online. If someone ITT does it (which seems likely, cause there are a bunch of racists ITT) I'd talk about it cause this is where I'm at.
I'm sure you've heard the intent argument before so I'm not going to speak all about that, but no ill intent does not mean no one gets hurt.
