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Re:New Emojis in 2023-2024 by xbpx on Saturday July 15, 2023 @10:52AM (#36737313)
Maybe because your entire lived experience has been reordered based on your skin color and how it isn't a light yellow color. Powerful cultural strands exist in your community to push back against constraints placed upon you because of your skin color. Maybe seeing the only option for skin color in tech be much more representative of white skin color only serves to further remove your lived reality from public debate and understanding.

Highlighted beyond irony by comments like this.

Re:New Emojis in 2023-2024 by Findecanor on Saturday July 15, 2023 @11:06AM (#36737466)
Nobody has a light yellow colour. It was chosen so as to not to refer to any ethnicity in particular.

BTW. If your skin actually has turned yellow then you should seek the nearest hospital emergency room ASAP, because it can be a sign of acute liver failure.

Re:New Emojis in 2023-2024 by Sharlin on Saturday July 15, 2023 @11:24AM (#36737643)
Like another commenter said in a sibling thread, yellow is still a non-dark color, and yellow characters represent white people in cartoons like The Simpsons.
Re:New Emojis in 2023-2024 by boondoggle16 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @02:11PM (#36739510)
Dark has always been bad, light has always been good. Unfortunate that's the case.
Re:New Emojis in 2023-2024 by Sharlin on Saturday July 15, 2023 @06:36PM (#36741562)
Re:New Emojis in 2023-2024 by jononomo on Saturday July 15, 2023 @10:57AM (#36737366)
Why do you think a yellow emoji represents a white skin color?
Re:New Emojis in 2023-2024 by kemayo on Saturday July 15, 2023 @11:01AM (#36737404)
Have you watched the Simpsons? There's some powerful cultural baggage here.

Anyway, it certainly implies not-dark skin...

Re:New Emojis in 2023-2024 by jononomo on Saturday July 15, 2023 @02:42PM (#36739732)
You may as well say it implies not-white skin as well. The only thing it implies in regard to skin color is bright yellow.
Re:New Emojis in 2023-2024 by Eisenstein on Saturday July 15, 2023 @02:59PM (#36739881)
Then why is Apu brown?
Re:New Emojis in 2023-2024 by jononomo on Saturday July 15, 2023 @03:38PM (#36740234)
Why are tomatoes red?