"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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"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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