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I'm uncomfortable with this (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But I don't want to choose my emojis based on the colour of my skin, I'd prefer to use something "neutral", and while yellow as you said is not really neutral, it's the closest thing we have to a neutral colour from all available options. I also don't think unicode requires that the unmodified emoji be rendered as being yellow (correct me if I'm mistaken), and it's probably apple and google who just decided that their fonts should render them as being yellow. I imagine one could with another font make them be magenta or some other color.

[–] moon@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago

I think it was a mistake to go with yellow in the first place and I see the case for changing it to magenta/green/anything.

But I think when we're representing people or human hands it's necessary to allow for skin colour, and by not doing so we're needlessly erasing people. I'm just not a fan of the 'it's racist to bring up race' argument, which is not what you're saying but the original comment was veering towards