Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0

Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by account42 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @03:54AM (#45194600)

It's really weird how this particular kind of racism is not only acceptable in the current zeitgeist but enforced as dogma. Why is anyone's skin color their most important defining characteristic?

This feels more like virtue signaling than any kind of reason: This kind of logic lets you forever find new kinds of racism that you can then make performative fights against so that you can ignore real issues that plague the world.

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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by ben_w on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @04:38AM (#45194910)

I think of skin colour like hair colour: it doesn't really mean anything, yet people still have degrading stereotypes; and changing it can make someone hard to recognise, especially in cases where a person is being caricatured anyway (which is lego but also Funko Pop).

Take these images, how recognisable would any of the characters (those with hair) be with different hair?

https://d2j6dbq0eux0bg.cloudfront.net/images/35476104/296227...

https://75609.cdn.simplo7.net/static/75609/sku/funko-pop-fun...

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