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If a person took the extra effort to send me the white thumb emoji instead of the yellow one I would assume very mean things about them

I've used ✊ as a certain flavor of "fuck yeah" before

✊🏻 hits wayyy different than that

"Time for your discussion about which emoji thumbs white people should use to solve racism!"

yes-honey-left Reparations pls

This is the shit that conservatives think we care about

I won't be satisfied ubtil they add skin tones to 🍆

As an Asian person, am I supposed to use the yellow emoji or the white emoji if that's closer to my actual skin tone?

Please help me crowdfund to get an answer from America's foremost emoji raceologists.

I've never seen anyone use anything but 👍

This feels like an attempt by Big Emoji to get people to actually use the other ones

Not like us here, with our prodigious amounts of quality, original emoji

Every white person who selects the non yellow emoji is automatically sus

This is radlib quibbling through and through, but I want to add a refutation anyway:

There was discussion before on this site about how nominally white people shouldn't identify with whiteness. Isn't this an example of that, however trivial? Unless I'm a racist, why would I ever want to go out of my way to further identify myself with whiteness? I won't deny that my experience is one of being white and in fact want to be transparent about it, but that's not the same as wanting to append "as a honky" to every statement I make. That's White Pride shit (i.e. shit)

I almost exclusively use the cat face emojis

I use an Android with gboard so I only use giant combo emojis. If you aren't using these you need to be. It's the one thing Google has done right in like 20 years.

This is the kind of shit you think about when you don't give a shit about capital literally destroying the Earth in real time

Why does my emoji have to match my real body? I type :) all the time but I can confirm my eyes are not two dots and my smile does not stretch around them like that..

stalin-approval am I doing this right?

Simpsons skin tone for all. homer-bye

thumb-cop

I'm just terminally jaundiced 👍

A modest proposal: Only 😭 should have a white skin color option. Lmao

I’ve never felt the need to go into my settings to change my skin color. I wouldn’t even know where to find the setting.

I did think about this a few years ago and opted for 👍. I feel a little weird when I see the white reacts used by others. This is not so much of a problem anymore but Slack/etc used to not stack the reacts, so if everyone was thumbs-upping you'd have a bunch of different ones instead of just one count and it made voting with 👍👎 more difficult. If nonwhite comrades tell me they prefer the white ones I'll switch but I suspect nobody gives a shit.

Average radlib Mastodon take

"I, [Server Admin], have banned you because your bio says you are white but you racistly chose to racistly use the default racist yellow thumbs up emoji. You have done real racist harm to our community with your racism and must be held accountable, you bigot. Yes, this is praxis and I am protecting the marginalized."

My base skin color is 👍🏻 but my hands are somewhere between 👍🏼 and 👍🏽

Basically, I’m doomed to use ✅

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But yellow is the default...I have to go out of my way to use the other ones because my keyboard's auto complete just fills this in with no other option

It's times like these that I'm thankful to be from an older generation with no need for emojis beyond :) and :(

Meanwhile, people are hungry and can't feed their kids and the planet is choking

It has nothing to do with racism. They are just dads

Also known as the Simpsonian negation.

I remember making fun of conservatives for obsessing over such a mundane update to iOS, as if Tim apple has every engineer working on black emojis. But now, liberals have fallen for the same shit. Horseshoe theory strikes again