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Emoji to Gain Expanded Racial Diversity With Skin Tone Modifier Option in Mid-2015
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Can't see any of those in Chrome. But you should learn about "absence of color" in graphic design.
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No, "PC" is only from whites. Because PC is from moronic whites that "feel bad", but can't express it like normal people. Quit lumping me in with other people, racist.
2014 Demographic of shows US population as: white 79.96%, black 12.85%, Asian 4.43%...
Why would PC attack cultural dominance based on race? isn't it clear what it should be from the numbers? Not that hard to do the math.
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United Nations!
Complaints of racism have resulted in an investigation by the UN into the Dutch tradition of Zwarte Piet. It's because the UN started to bash The Netherlands regarding it's "zwarte-pieten" (black-pete). Many Towns will have multi-coloured (even blue, red, yellow, etc) pete's instead of the original black one.
Complaints of racism have resulted in an investigation by the UN into the Dutch tradition of Zwarte Piet. It's because the UN started to bash The Netherlands regarding it's "zwarte-pieten" (black-pete). Many Towns will have multi-coloured (even blue, red, yellow, etc) pete's instead of the original black one.
It is kinda ridiculous since emojis are meant to represent emotions, not races. I'm white, but if all of Apple's emojis were only brown for some reason, I wouldn't have any problem using them whatsoever. Because a brown smiley face still equals happy just as much as a white smiley face. So I wouldn't care that the emojis are brown and wouldn't feel any need to have white ones as well just because I'm white.
Let me ask you: If the emojis were originally brown, would you want there to be white ones (or whatever colour race you are)? If so, why? Is it because you can't relate to emojis that are a different colour than yourself?
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Having completely race neutral emojis would be a better option than all of this silly stuff, since they're meant to convey emotions and nothing else.
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What about the backs in Africa who sold their fellow blacks to others as slaves?
Throughout the entire world prior to a few hundred years ago virtually every civilisation used slaves. Until the industrial revolution made them obsolete most of the world was a slave-based economy. No race was really that much better or worse than another -- some whites kept slaves, some Jews kept slaves, some blacks kept slaves and some middle-easterners kept slaves. Not just a white man victimising black man thing.
You obviously haven't noticed that emoji have for a long time expanded beyond smilies.
Take our current line up for example. What emotions are represented by # or # or # or # or # or # or # or # or # or # or # or ...?
Meh
This is ridiculous. It's a bright yellow smiley face, has absolutely nothing to do with race. Why bring a skin color into emoji?
This is ridiculous. It's a bright yellow smiley face, has absolutely nothing to do with race. Why bring a skin color into emoji?
You're right.
White people should dominate everything. They are clearly the superior race, as you have demonstrated.
This is obviously why PC is incorrect: they don't accept that white people are the clearly superior dominant race in America, and America is the only country that matters.
Come. Let us make fun of the PC crowd. That is an enjoyable white-people sport.
Oh, you poor 'minority', not getting everything your way, obviously racist against white people, and all jazzed up because a freaking emoticon doesn't look like you.
You're a total fool.
My advice-get over yourself, get used to the fact that this country has white people in it, and stop being such a douche
I'm white, but that's irrelevant. The Internet is international, so I don't know what 'this country' you mean, Zimbabwe? Argentina? Iraq? White people already have white emojis, so that's a non-issue, not anything I need to get over, I'm not hung up on there being white emojis. You people that have issues with skin shades being added to an icon set are on my last nerve. Really ****ing dumb tools, to be precise. Look at what your real issues are.
The emoji's I see on most sites are yellow. I'm not yellow and somehow I get by with using them and not caring that a cartoon character doesn't look like me
You're a ******* fool
I hope you understand that you're getting all emotionally worked up over other people having the ability to write cartoon characters of a different skin color.
It's quite amazing what's happening to you people.
Think about it.
You're actually pissed off that a black girl can type in a cartoon character with a person of a black skin color, instead of the white skin color that you're used to.
You want that person to black girl to use the default white skin color emoji, like all of these: ##################✊✌️#✋#######☝️#######################
You don't want that black girl to have the ability to write all those in a different skin color.
lol. It really gets to you people.
BTW You're not helping to dispel the stereotype that racist people are emotional sensitive people.
We're pissed off that people are so stupid to care that an emoticon is yellow.
Sometimes the level of stupidity in this country gets so high that those of us with common sense and brains need to get it off our chest.
Am I gonna have to break out the mirror of ugly truths again? I hate when I have to do that.
He wouldn't recognize the reflection anyway.
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Utterly agree with you.
It is ah-mazing how much it gets to them.
That's the saddest thing of all.
I mean we now have 15 pages of people bitterly complaining about the inclusion of something utterly innocuous as if it's the end of the world. It's not like accidentally sending an Asian and black emoji to an Indian guy will inadvertently start a race war or something. It's just...
...they're goddamn little pictures of people you send to your friends via text messages. What's the big deal? About the only justifiable reaction to this should've been something along the lines of "oh, okay. Neat."
What is shocking is that an entire range of 53 emojis of white (not yellow) skin color, which is almost half of the people-related emojis, is posted in the post you quoted, and you are still unable to grasp the concept. No wonder you're getting so worked up. There is only one dark-skinned one, and he's wearing a turbin.
I can guaran-freaking-tee you that if there were 53 dark-skinned emojis and then just yellow ones, there would be an uproar. You'd probably lead it. I'm not really sure you understand where the stupidity lies. Here's a hint: it's with those who are actually upset that other races can now get emojis which can represent them. It's shocking that people can be so blatantly idiotic.
The fact that people keep saying "it's a yellow face...what's the big deal" shows how incompetent some people are.
These are yellow?
##################✊✌️#✋#######☝️#######################
Not sure why you think all these emoji should be white people?
Please get a grip on your racism. It makes you look bad. Other people make fun of you for it.
Actually people are making fun of you for your racism, but don't let that stop you.