>When she picked up the phone, I stumbled over my words for a bit before finally asking, “So……why do you use that color emoji?” Just so we’re on the same page, this was the exact emoji in question: >Her response was two-fold. For one, she pointed to the fact that she’s tan. It’s true, she’s not as white as the white emoji. But her main reason was around the “weirdness” of using the white emoji. From what I could gather, she was hesitant to use the white emoji because it could come across as oppressive — as if she was shoving her whiteness at me. I heard her out, and understood her perspective. >In response, though, I said it felt uncomfortable to me because it seemed as if she was trying to claim something that wasn’t hers to claim. She heard where I was coming from but it’s unclear where she landed. We’ve still been texting regularly but she hasn’t sent any emoji to me in a while. >Still feeling confused and unsettled about my friend’s emoji use, I figured there were only a couple of things to do: Googling the hell out of it came first. Upon my Googling, I came across an incident involving Kendall Jenner. In August, some people on social media called her out for using a fist bump emoji in a skin tone that was darker than her own. Some people accused her of cultural appropriation. I also came across some articles on the topic, but I still didn’t feel like I had a solid understanding of who was right and who was wrong. >The logical step, in my mind, was to get my co-workers and people on Twitter to chime in. I simply asked them if it’s ok for white people to use emoji with darker skin-tones. According to my Twitter poll, the answer is no. Of the 239 people who voted, 54 percent said it’s not, 33 percent said yes and 13 percent said “only if they’re tan.”
Instead of ignoring this development I wonder if it's about time to start actively fighting it.
Jaxon Lopez
no one gives a shit
Oliver Wright
which row is for pajeets?
Aiden Walker
Also, this article was posted less than 10 minutes ago. Please die.
Luke Thomas
I wasnt even aware non-yellow emojis existed.
Jeremiah Reed
I can't understand why any white person would want to use "dark skinned" emojis. Makes me want to wash my hands.
Nathan Brooks
Not sure how people still dont understand hitler literally did nothing wrong. This is what he was trying to protect us from.
Jackson Perry
Emojis do not exist outside of tech
Caleb Barnes
there are black people owning other black people as slaves in Africa right now there is aids epidemic decimating your people in Africa right now there is black on black gun violence in the us right now
and the thing you're angry and want to do something about is when someone from a race you hate is using the wrong emoji color? talk about loosing perspective
Hunter Ward
>phone supports nigger emoji
Brody Smith
>murica education
Parker Morgan
Is this what happens when western women are really, really bored?
Joshua Sanders
Drama exclusive to the US. Why should we care?
Jayden Young
>according to a twitter poll this isn't ok
Well that's it boys, if a couple hundred twitter users have weighed in then the issue is settled.
Leo Russell
i use skin tone 2 which is my skin tone emojis never had the modifiers anyway
Gabriel Rivera
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Kevin White
I'm black and I use the yellow emojis. Just go ahead and try to stop me, ching chongs :)))
Camden Davis
What if you use nigger emojis in an appropriate context?
Jeremiah Foster
finally weighing in on the real issues
Parker Turner
/thread this is the only acceptable use of skintone modifiers
Nicholas Parker
Banning me from using certain Unicode glyphs because of my skin color is racist and a restriction of my freedom
Blake Perez
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Michael Thomas
Unicode was a mistake.
Isaiah Wood
We need to be looking at the real issue, White people sharing Black GIFs.
Did you even consider the thoughts of green skinned people before posting this shitty emoji, white devil? Do you think they are okay with being culturally appropriated like this? Try to think about others' feelings for once, you god damned racist cunt.
Sebastian Jackson
Mother of christ what in the name of god. If there were no black people gifs or emojis they'd be complaining about that too. What do these people even want, how can you be so disconected from reality. Holy shit.
Kevin Thomas
Americans are great at finding the most fucking irrelevant shit to be mad about. That's basically all they're good at.
Jaxson Cook
>read a top comment a month ago saying "inb4 they take down the comments" >they actually did it
Christian Rogers
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Leo Myers
What the fuck else are they gonna do with their Uni degrees?
Kayden Gonzalez
I think people should stop using emojis.
Joseph Gutierrez
Emojis are bloat. Pictures don't belong in fonts. Fuck normalfags for ruining unicode.
John Campbell
>BBC >Dislike ratio >Comments closed and some people say that there isn't a forced agenda lmao
Xavier Harris
Fuck off techcrunch nigger.
Gabriel Lopez
They can't be seen on dark themes.
Joseph Campbell
Archive that shit: archive.is/cXnrg This isn't due to boredom – this sort of thing is what the majority of them feel is important.
Ian Wright
>trust fund college mullatos getting offended on behalf of actual poor black people who couldn't give less of a fuck Unironically, the response by Sheboona is more racist than the emoji non-issue.
Also >I posted a twitter poll, therefore I'm correct The people who would vote on your poll likely share a similar ideology of self victimization, because they're your friends and followers. So the poll is heavily self selected towards one particularly toxic ideology that would vote yes to ANYTHING being racist.
Nolan Cox
>emoji Stopped reading right here.
Brandon Watson
Holy shit some people have too much time on their hands.
Jose Wilson
Doesn't than mean that using the default yellow emoji should be reserved to asian people?
Cooper Foster
no, it's only to be used by people who live in The Simpsons' universe.
Anthony Nelson
>Americans did you even watch the fucking video
Dominic Turner
At this point I think we all know that "yellow" people are not actually yellow.
Nathaniel Williams
What if I use gifs with aliens or cats? Also why emoji aren't just green or something?