“The account also apologized for using non-white emoticons after realizing that ‘using emoticons that differ to your own skin colour can be a form of digital blackface and digital cultural appropriation.’”
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“non-white emoticons”
Easier to make a list of things that aren’t white racism, I guess.
So should all non-white people apologize every time they use electricity or get in a car since they are culturally appropriating “white technology”?
This stuff is _so_ confusing. :-)
“digital cultural appropriation”
Imagine if the lost used their imaginations coming up with actually good and useful things.
“The account also apologized for using non-white emoticons after realizing that ‘using emoticons that differ to your own skin colour can be a form of digital blackface and digital cultural appropriation.’”
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Emoji appropriation. Truly a micro aggression.
