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Apple Continues to Tweak Emojis in Latest iOS 8.3 Beta
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That's the question many of us had, but for some reason this is a huge racist issue that emojis are yellow and somehow only represent the white populace.
Hellifiknow...
That my first thought as I saw the updated skin tones and blonde and brunette hair color. RACIST! Come on Apple.
No you don't.
Good question. The answer rests in American and European history, and the need to use pseudo-science to help justify imperialism and control other others.
Also, this is a really good read to help some ignorant folk understand more about what actually does constitutes racism.
The word most of you all are looking for is
PREJUDICED.
Thank providence you only exist in your imagination; you can't wreak too much damage in there.
Ah another one. Good to know where you stand intellectually.
I'll be sure to step over you.
Call me a racist or privileged all you like; hysterically shrieking accusations like a frothing mad ayatollah reflects poorly upon you, not me.
They're adding that soonActually, they don't. They have same sex emojis, but you are not able to make ANY couple/family emojis reflect interracial relationships.
Guess it's more "inclusive" to have an emoji for gold gay people than to have one for me "white" and my "black" husband. /s
Yes! Anyone else find this excursion into madness disgusting?
It's just an avatar. It's not supposed to be a representation of you exactly. I mean, people will start demanding that there be a symbol with brown hair and blue eyes, and what about the camels, and why are there no black cows, and who decided that poo would look like that, and why isn't there...
It's a slippery slope. Starbucks just got smacked over their attempts to racially troll their customers. Is that what Apple is doing?
They are not yellow, they are white. This isn't for the yellow emoji (the smiley faces), it's for the people emoji which are all white. Macrumors used a poor example. The people emoji start on the 3rd page on the iPhone.
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That's the question many of us had, but for some reason this is a huge racist issue that emojis are yellow and somehow only represent the white populace.
Hellifiknow...
Why are you referring to the yellow emoji? The skin tone modifiers are intended for the people emoji which are all white, not the yellow smiley face emoji. The people emoji start on the 3rd page on the iPhone.
What is the point? I never even used the "white/Caucasian/European/European-American/etc" emoji just the standard yellow smily. do people even use the more "natural" looking emojis? only time i went that far was to use the pile of poop icon.
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Exactly my feelings. Much ado about nothing as no one gives a **** about those emojis. Delete them all and let's move on.
Now I'll be able to text about the gang members I saw and illustrate with custom Emoji, or do similar when I spot someone robbing a convenience store.
in this politically correct world, no matter what you say or do, you will always offend someone.
Adding more stereotypical emojis makes the problem worse. Then again, Apple does not have the guts to enable the middle finger one cause it would offend young families
even though it will be the most popular teenage emojii
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What proportion of the population is black and what proportion of the population is white?
It's easy to make glib point when you're ignorant.