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[–] [email protected] 167 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If a person took the extra effort to send me the white thumb emoji instead of the yellow one I would assume very mean things about them

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[–] [email protected] 150 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've used ✊ as a certain flavor of "fuck yeah" before

✊🏻 hits wayyy different than that

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Time for your discussion about which emoji thumbs white people should use to solve racism!"

yes-honey-left Reparations pls

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We 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?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

We will give reparations to BIPOC, but only in the form of an IMF loan, with 200% interest rate

[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is the shit that conservatives think we care about

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

This is why we need revolution, to make sure people use emojis right 😞

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I won't be satisfied ubtil they add skin tones to 🍆

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've never seen anyone use anything but 👍

This feels like an attempt by Big Emoji to get people to actually use the other ones

Not like us here, with our prodigious amounts of quality, original emoji

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Some of my poc friends use the brown ones. I wouldn't give them a hard time about it. But speaking as someone who is white passing using the white skin emojis would be too weird

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

my mom is brown, and uses the brown ones, but the brown one is way darker than she is and so it just seems kinda off. It's like, mom, your skin tone is Halle Berry, not Grace Jones

(i'd never tell her that tho)

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every white person who selects the non yellow emoji is automatically sus

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For the next 5 minutes, every white person who responds with a brown-skin emoji gets to be honorary

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I almost exclusively use the cat face emojis

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yeah but 🐈‍⬛ or 🐈?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

Depends on which of my cats was a brat to me recently.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago

I love this turtle

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (7 children)

:::spoiler Thank you so much I just played around with this and had so much fun

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

This is the kind of shit you think about when you don't give a shit about capital literally destroying the Earth in real time

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why does my emoji have to match my real body? I type :) all the time but I can confirm my eyes are not two dots and my smile does not stretch around them like that..

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

my smile does not stretch around them like that

y so srs

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Simpsons skin tone for all. homer-bye

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

stalin-approval am I doing this right?

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just terminally jaundiced 👍

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

It's the Simpsons emoji

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I'm honestly a little suspicious of anyone who uses the white 👍. I feel like the only people who care enough to explicitly use it instead of the yellow are either virtue signalling liberals or white supremacists. I'm probably reading far, far too much into people's emoji choices though.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Extremely telling that you don't even know where the setting is (it's in "Themes" btw). Your privilege is showing

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (7 children)

A modest proposal: Only 😭 should have a white skin color option. Lmao

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Average radlib Mastodon take

"I, [Server Admin], have banned you because your bio says you are white but you racistly chose to racistly use the default racist yellow thumbs up emoji. You have done real racist harm to our community with your racism and must be held accountable, you bigot. Yes, this is praxis and I am protecting the marginalized."

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

My base skin color is 👍🏻 but my hands are somewhere between 👍🏼 and 👍🏽

Basically, I’m doomed to use ✅

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But yellow is the default...I have to go out of my way to use the other ones because my keyboard's auto complete just fills this in with no other option

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's times like these that I'm thankful to be from an older generation with no need for emojis beyond :) and :(

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

It has nothing to do with racism. They are just dads

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, people are hungry and can't feed their kids and the planet is choking

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