"More than 20 years after the birth of the Internet, it’s striking to think some people once saw the online world as a raceless utopia, where a user could leave his or her physical identity behind and be judged solely on what he or she said. That theory was always flawed"
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"It’s worth noting the unpopularity of white emoji tentatively appears confined to the United States. Elsewhere in the world, including the Middle East, white emoji are more common. “This conversation could be completely different in Africa,” Chow-White said."
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Really interesting to see the fucked-up-ness of the US reflected in something as banal/boring/silly as emojis.
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"The Internet cannot escape the bonds of our minds, as much as people may want it to."
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Their stats are really shabby. The lightest skin tone gets 19%, with 30% for the next lightest, and 52% for the darkest three... But by any metric, that would mean that at least two of the darker skin tones are used around 17%, or equivalently the same as the lightest
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....assuming that the most used one matches the lightest at 19%. So, that seems an even spread across usage for anything other than the second lightest tone. Not sure how that would change the story, but grouping those three together is a bit, well, unexplained.
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What are the baseline race percentages?
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I suppose that depends on which sources you use - 72% is the figure I usually see for white in the US (16% hispanic, but that's an ethnicity, not a race in the figures). I'd have to check....
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i suspect that defult yellow (ie stereotypically white) is not included in the counts...
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I don't think it is.
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Sorry, I mean baselines for the Tweets collected?
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