"Wow, that’s [i]nter-white-person weirdness [...] welcome to our world—where the default was always one thing, and you’re trying to make a new default. [I default] to the darkest emoji now … I live in a world where there was always ever one default."https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/white-people-dont-use-white-emoji/481695/ …
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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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