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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by mikestorrent on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @10:54PM (#45192605)
It's up to you to decide if someone setting the colour of a couple of pixels on the screen is "deliberately drawing attention" to it vs. just a cute customization that makes people feel included. Probably instead of picking a few tones we should just let people go full RGB on masked colours in the emoji so we can have green people too.
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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by nomdep on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @12:20AM (#45193230)
Adding a skin color, let's say a thumbs-up with a black skin tone, its saying: "this is not just a thumbs-up, its different, it's a BLACK thumbs-up". See how racist it is?
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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by Devorlon on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @03:32AM (#45194427)
Personally, no I don't see it.
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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by nomdep on Thursday September 11, 2025 @11:54AM (#45213057)
Without knowing anything about the particular person, in what ways a black thumbs-up is different than a non-skinned thumbs-up?

Adding a skin-tone is saying there ARE differences, but any difference you can name are actually prejudices about blacks. What was meant to be a simple "ok", "agree", etc. now is charged with an "I don't think you/others and me are the same kind of humans".

That's why using skin-tones in emojis is actually racist.

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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by numpad0 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @04:16AM (#45194760)
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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by account42 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @04:30AM (#45194852)
> It's not like rainbow flags at all

It actually is. Sexual preferences also have no place in professional communication or really any non-intimate communication.

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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by AlexeyBelov on Thursday September 11, 2025 @08:41AM (#45210873)
Heterosexual people can use rainbow flags...
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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by mikestorrent on Friday September 12, 2025 @01:01PM (#45224189)
Only "Extremely Online" people think like this; you should consider going outside and touching some grass.
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