Which skin color emoji should you use? The answer can be more complex than you think Using skin color emojis in chat can open a complex discussion on race : NPR Is the yellow emoji really neutral? A 2018 study published by the University of Edinburgh looked at the use of different skin tone emojis — what it referred to as "modified" emojis — on Twitter to find out if the modifiers contributed to self-representation. Alexander Robertson, an emoji researcher at Google and Ph.D. candidate involved in the study, said the emoji modifiers were used widely but it was people with darker skin who used them in higher proportions, and more often. White People may stick with the yellow emoji because they don't want to assert their privilege by adding a light-skinned emoji to a text, or to take advantage of something that was created to represent diversity.
I just use the base emojis (yellow). Why would I want to take the extra step of choosing a color? It isn't like the people I am texting are confused about my race and need me to signal it to them with the thumbs up emoji. Isn't the whole point to have a quick shorthand?
Best thread yet - a real winner here. So when is this forum going to be renamed, "Debate & Discuss the Culture Wars"
Picking default instead of white may show a presumption that whiteness is the default. But, picking white instead of the default may show an insistence on whiteness in your identity, which may come off as white supremacy to others. I'd go ahead and use the brown emoji, but my kids say that'd be appropriation -- also, using a Colombian marketing character as your online identity is also appropriation, but I didn't know that a quarter-century ago.
It's amazing on both sides. Academics actually caring about **** like this, and the right getting all up in arms about stupid **** like this.
It's just one opinion piece dude. The vast majority of NPR's content is over much more serious issues.
This is the problem with Democrats. b**** and complain and have theoretical arguments about nit-picky bullshit while Republicans weaponize stupid 'fake' issues to subvert the laws to their own agenda. JFC <---Independent voter, btw
Again, it's literally a single article. Is there absolutely zero room for news media to touch on subjects like this? I sometimes listen to NPR on my drives and they'll go on lengthy 2 hour debates with economists about the nature of how the news media reports economic numbers and the bias in their reporting that mainly benefits the wealthy. They go in depth about how gdp growth is a outdated metric to determine economic health for the common citizen. How often do you see other large news media organizations actually do that type of coverage?
