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Emoji to Gain Expanded Racial Diversity With Skin Tone Modifier Option in Mid-2015

I'm willing to bet that most people complaining about how stupid this is and how much a waste of time it is, probably find their ethnic backgrounds adequately represented in movies, tv shows, games, all types of media, and not have to worry that if and when they are represented, they are not tainted with negative stereotypes and generalizations.

I'm betting that there is not a single person of color here thinking that this is stupid or a waste of time.

I wonder why that is?

WHAT IS THE F___ING PROBLEM HERE? How much effort do you think it'll take to add a palate of color to these stupid emojis?

Yeah I know it's yellow and NO ONE has that skin color. Why do you have a problem with people having a choice of how they represent themselves? Because the problem is actually you?
 
Can someone point me to where people were complaining about the emojis and that the PC crowd has taken over? I see nothing about that in the OP.

It appears that the consortium has decided to make this an option so everyone can have what they want.

And shocker of all shockers, some people get upset that emojis can now appear with different races if so desired.

I cannot even fathom how this is an issue to anyone who isn't full of white pride.
 
mozumder said:
You must be of a superior race?

Your race must be the only one that should be allowed to have an emoji, correct?

A dark-skinned black toddler should be happy with your skin tone for an emoji?
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I don't know, the Emoji people look Mexican to me, and I'm not Mexican, and I don't care. I'm half Caucasian, half White.

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samiwas said:
I cannot even fathom how this is an issue to anyone who isn't full of white pride.
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'Cause I'll bet the brown ones will take up more bits to send and won't be parseable everywhere :p
Seriously though, the second thing is my concern because I don't know how to update my Unicode. I don't think anyone is upset that they have dark-skinned Emojis but that Tim Cook made public statements about this as if it were a big deal.
 
My Padres in La Raza (the Race) will not commence legal action because luckily we see there is an icon representing Flan for dessert.
 
octothorpe8 said:
Sure this *seems* trivial because it's "just" emoji, but it's not so hard to imagine a kid somewhere else in the world feeling a little $hi**y because people who have his skin type (and that of everyone in his community) are not represented. Who does it hurt, exactly, to make it feel more inclusive to others?
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That kid would be any kid located on earth, seeing that I know nobody and have never even seen anyone with bright yellow skin. Perhaps everyone assuming that a bright yellow smiley face is white are the problem here and not the majority of people that see a yellow smiley face as just that, yellow.
 
You know this is exactly what the world needs!!! Thank god someone thought of it........

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citizenzen said:
So much of what we do on our computer is "stupid", "ridiculous" and a "giant waste of time."

It's interesting that you feel that offering customers a more inclusive experience meets that definition.

I think it's a beautiful thing.
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LoL this is funny!
 
room237 said:
I'm willing to bet that most people complaining about how stupid this is and how much a waste of time it is, probably find their ethnic backgrounds adequately represented in movies, tv shows, games, all types of media, and not have to worry that if and when they are represented, they are not tainted with negative stereotypes and generalizations.

I'm betting that there is not a single person of color here thinking that this is stupid or a waste of time.

I wonder why that is?

WHAT IS THE F___ING PROBLEM HERE? How much effort do you think it'll take to add a palate of color to these stupid emojis?

Yeah I know it's yellow and NO ONE has that skin color. Why do you have a problem with people having a choice of how they represent themselves? Because the problem is actually you?
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Just wait till you end up in a racial flame war because you accidentally sent the wrong color emoji in your message and offended someone by apparently calling them a cracker without realizing that you had a different ethnicity on the other end of the message.
 
samiwas said:
I cannot even fathom how this is an issue to anyone who isn't full of white pride.
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Sure, let me explain. Here's a technical reason: When new Emoji are invented, they are not magically available everywhere. Adding new Emoji is not technically challenging, but upgrading all your devices and operating systems is. The current set of Emoji can still not be sent to a different OS or OS version reliably (as I know from frustrating experience):

http://imgur.com/a/WAKF2

We could easily have neutralised the "white emoji" set to make them all look like Simpsons characters, and genderless at the same time. But now that we have decided that Emoji can have a race and gender, why not also add these:

- Emoji people in a wheelchair
- father-father-child and mother-mother-child are obvious omissions
- polyamorous groups of people
- Emoji people who have a thinner or thicker build than the current ones
- non-Japanese food Emoji (think of the Japanese war crimes against China!)
- Emoji flags for all countries in the world (a list that nobody can really agree on)
- Emoji of men having their hair or fingernails done, not just women
- in turn, a female police officer
- combinations of the above as appropriate

I'm not trying to be an ass, I honestly think that these would be fair additions. But at that point, instead of struggling with an ever-evolving standard, we should just leave Unicode alone and come up with a way to embed tiny inline images in our messages.

Edit: Deleted the rest, this thread is a hopeless hate-fest.
 
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eyehop said:
The current emojis are caucasian, so the racial separation has already occurred.

The current emojis are caucasian.

The current situation of only having caucasian emojis is racist in itself.

Color diversity is simply reality, and providing a range of color is therefore neutral. Caucasian emojis are not neutral.

Emojis favor all light skinned people due to its origins in Japan. It is now an international icon set.

Black and brown people want emojis with black and brown skin! OMG How ridiculous is that?!?

Caucasian colored emojis are not color neutral. The most color neutral color would be black, since black is the combination of all color, or absence of all color, depending on the presentation medium.

When an African American uses a black emoji, it could be taken as an African American using a black emoji. Think carefully, it's painfully a non-issue.

The emoji people have spent decades making caucasian emojis, and now we will spend a few hours adding various skin tones to reflect emoji users. And you're fighting for what? Color-blindness? How does adding color options to all the human faces and body parts available create racism? Twisted logic. Pretending something doesn't exist does not make it so, so let it exist, in full color.
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Sorry, but this is a pet peeve of mine... Look at people from the Caucasus before using Caucasian as a multi-syllabic word for "white".
 
Windlasher said:
Chinese people aren't yellow either.
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I know, but they are commonly - whether it's good or bad - seen as the closest to yellow skin. Simpsons aside.

Col4bin said:
And this is what happens when liberals run the world. Smh
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I know right? I'd much rather have an uncontrolled health care sector and such!
Pesky Liberals ruining my Emoji keyboard! DAMN.

Glassed Silver:mac
 
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steve333 said:
So now you're saying that the Japanese are caucasian?
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Pay attention: Japanese have light skin, they created emojis, and now they are an international icon set, and the light skin of emojis applies to all light skinned people, including Caucasians. The whole point is that we can look beyond race, but skin color? Never. If you want one color to represent the majority on the Internet, it would have to be a pretty dark shade of brown. Black and brown people don't need to use light emojis, neither does this white person if I so choose. The white/US bias on this forum is really astounding, the claims that offering color is racist? Only a white probably republican dumbass can come up with that little twist of reality.

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flyinmac said:
Or being overly sensitive, you miss the point that the whole proposal is ridiculous and racist by design and someone was using an equally ridiculous illustration to point that out.
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Offering a range of color to represent users is racist? How head up your ass do you have to be to see this that way?
 
citizenzen said:
So much of what we do on our computer is "stupid", "ridiculous" and a "giant waste of time."

It's interesting that you feel that offering customers a more inclusive experience meets that definition.

I think it's a beautiful thing.
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Yellow emojy was was the most inclusive. Everyone could identify with it. Now it starts to segregate by color. It's no longer an emojy but racial emojy.

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eyehop said:
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Offering a range of color to represent users is racist? How head up your ass do you have to be to see this that way?
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It's not racist, it is racial. See the distinction there?
 
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