“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
I did think about this a few years ago and opted for 👍. 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 👍👎 more difficult. If nonwhite comrades tell me they prefer the white ones I’ll switch but I suspect nobody gives a shit.
Asian here. If a white guy came to me and gave me some 20 minute analysis on why white emojis are racist so that’s why he doesn’t use them, I will assume he’s a trust fund neoliberal and advocates for genocide in third world countries. I am not kidding. Take that as you will
That would be excessive, but everything we do sends a message so it’s reasonable to consider how the message might be interpreted. What do you think when you see a yellow emoji without a 20 minute unprompted analysis?
I think “great, this person uses emojis so now I have to as well or else they’ll think I’m abnormal.”
👍 thanks good to know
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.
When i used slack for work it like automatically collected the different skin tones together
yeah it does that now but didn’t when they first released the skin color emoji. They added grouping in 2021
I’ve never felt the need to go into my settings to change my skin color. I wouldn’t 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
My ass actually went to look. Feeling very boomerish rn
Lol, I thought you were riffing and talking about literally being able to change the color of your skin
You’re telling on yourself.
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 for telling me about this!
Thank you so much I just played around with this and had so much fun
:bottom-peas:
Oh believe me I found a ton more 🥺 ones, though bottom-peas might be the best
:bottom-tea: is also pretty good
I cackled at the slot machine one
Star goose is a vibe
So this is what Lauren Boebert’s into?
Bee da goose 💀
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I love this turtle
Holy fuck
I love every part of this monster
Nationalist Public Radio is just soy nazi propaganda for Ted Lasso watching corpo radlibs lol
either get rid of the yellow one or just have one and make it blue or something then
Shiva likey
blue lives don’t, in fact, matter
This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen this year 😂😭💀
I won’t be satisfied ubtil they add skin tones to 🍆
The only worthwhile take on this whole post.
👍
am I doing this right?Idea: require phones to take a picture of the user’s actual hand before they can use hand emojis.
/r/blackpeopletwitter (?) asked for photographic verification at some point to deal with the racist KKKrakas. The rest of
got predictably mald.
A modest proposal: Only 😭 should have a white skin color option. Lmao
Only 💀 should be white, and it is, so the rest can be removed
[This is a joke]
i get irrationally angry every time i see a 😭 or 💀
💀
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 👍
You are white until rugpulled
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 upDid you intend to be responding to the OOP?
Frr 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 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 don’t identify with whiteness because I’m 1/8 Irish and celts aren’t white.
Which 1/8? And is it a horizontal slice or a vertical one?
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.
I don’t have an answer for you, but I am offering a position at the Democracy Institute for Equality and Business Think Tank
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.
Oh absolutely, but the price just doubled.
What’s the current Skibidi exchange rate?
Simpsons skin tone for all.
