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Re:I/O 2022 by stickfigure on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @04:43PM (#31345510)
Maybe in an advanced stage of liver failure. It's really stretching to say yellow == white. The default color made nobody happy, which is exactly why it was the right solution to the problem.
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Re:I/O 2022 by twelvechairs on Friday May 13, 2022 @12:20AM (#31363276)
There's a good history of it in Lego here [0]. You can see its a complex relationship but yellow has been used for caucasians (and asians) and has always had a difficult relationship for people of color.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Why-do-LEGO-minifigures-have-yellow-he...

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Re:I/O 2022 by SemanticStrengh on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @04:51PM (#31345596)
actually the excessive yellowness brillantly avoided the uncanny valley of half-baked underspecified realism
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