I listen to NPR, I know the cover real issues. I just skip the stupid **** like this topic. I just don't see the point in covering it; it's a distraction when there are serious, serious issues with our country. These aren't overblown issues like Benghazi!
I was commenting on the study done by the University of Edinburgh, dude, not the opinion piece. What does NPR have to do with anything, I have no issues with NPR? Once again you charge in here talking about **** that has nothing to do with what I posted. Please stop. So the University of Edinburgh is Democrats? Who knew?
NPR is citing a study, they did not do it themselves. You want to talk about all the culture war funding the Republicans are doing in Texas with book banning?
WOW! You are actually doubling down, and all Democrats are not Liberals. Do you really want to continue down this road and tell why you despise Democrats?
NPR skews heavily to left/liberal as does the Democratic party, which seems to be the party of hang wringing and bickering the past several years. I don't hate the Democrats, I'm just sick of the p***y-footing. Republicans seem to be more lockstep, even if it's in the wrong direction. Of course there are variances. But plebs are plebs and it's black and white to these people.
I think articles like this are bad and triggering and eyeroll-worthy on purpose, to make folks click.
Did you even read the article? It has nothing to do with what you think it does. Your title is flat out false. So I'm curious, why do you need to lie to make your narrative feel real?
I think the thread title fairly captures some of the ideas presented in the article: She said there was a default in society to associate whiteness with being raceless, and the emojis gave white people an option to make their race explicit. "I completely hear some people are just exhausted [from] having to do that. Many people of color have to do that every day and are confronted with race every day," Rahman said. "But for many white people, they've been able to ignore it, whether that's subconsciously or consciously, their whole lives." It seems like it is saying that a white person who chooses not to use a white-skinned emoji because they don't want to present themselves as explicitly of the white race is them exercising their white privilege (being able to go through life without giving much thought to their race, unlike non-white people who can't help but being confronted with their other-ness). The problem, of course, is that as soon as a white person explicitly identifies as white in a context other than expressing white guilt, they will come across as racists. For whatever reason, this is not at all addressed in the article.
