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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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