Posted on 02/09/2022 1:44:20 PM PST by MAGA2017
Heath Racela identifies as three-quarters white and one-quarter Filipino. When texting, he chooses a yellow emoji instead of a skin tone option, because he feels it doesn't represent any specific ethnicity or color.
He doesn't want people to view his texts in a particular way. He wants to go with what he sees as the neutral option and focus on the message.
"I present as very pale, very light skinned. And if I use the white emoji, I feel like I'm betraying the part of myself that's Filipino," Racela, of Littleton, Mass., said. "But if I use a darker color emoji, which maybe more closely matches what I see when I look at my whole family, it's not what the world sees, and people tend to judge that."
In 2015, five skin tone options became available for hand gesture emojis, in addition to the default Simpsons-like yellow. Choosing one can be a simple texting shortcut for some, but for others it opens a complex conversation about race and identity.
"I use the brown one that matches me," said Sarai Cole, an opera singer in Germany. "I have some friends who use the brown ones, too, but they are not brown themselves. This confuses me."
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
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I don’t own a smart phone nor do any kind of ‘social media’ so - DILLIGAF?
I can’t even find a foundation that matches my skin tone.
I don’t give a rat’s patootie if my emoji matches anything.
The emoji I use is none.
Because it’s stupid…
Casper e-mo-gee
"Your skin color is your uniform." - George Lincoln Rockwell
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LOL! Of course this stupidity comes from NPR!
My emoji is purple with rage.
I don’t really use these emojis, but I don’t really care what the skin collar is. If someone thought I was black, Asian, whatever, makes no difference to me.
Man, that is a first world problem
Oh jeez. Talk about 1st world problems.
it is confusing that anyone frets over this at all
DSM code: emoji dysphoria
How about CLEAR..... bunch of frack’n commies. I choose to be color blind.
Yellow? He doesn’t know about the yellow peril?
Heath sounds like someone you don’t want your daughter around.
Actually, Heath is probably a fag, so include your son in the above.
People who put ANY attention toward this sort of inane concern truly need a life.
There is now an emoji depicting a pregnant man. That is how stupid this is.
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