I’m asking because as a light-skinned male, I always use the standard Simpsons yellow. I don’t really see other light-skinned people using an emoji that matches their skin tone, but often do see people of color use them. Maybe white people don’t naturally realize a need to be explicit with emoji skin-tone or perhaps it’s seen as implicitly identifying or requesting white privilege.

  • Is there a significance to using skin-tone emojis, and if so, what is it?

  • Assuming there might be a racial movement attached to the first question, how does my use of emojis, both Simpsons yellow and light-skin, interact with or contribute to that?

Note: I am an autistic white Latino-American cis-gendered man that aims to be socially just.

Autistic text stim: blekh 😝 blekh 😝 blekh 😝 blekh 😝 blekh 😝 !!

  • EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    People honestly assessing whether yellow is adjacent to whiteness.

    Now please answer my question.

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        5 months ago

        All of the white guests are also yellow. Still claiming they aren’t supposed to be white?

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            5 months ago

            They often have cameos on the show by famous people. The white people are always yellow. Yellow = white in the Simpsons, very clearly.

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                5 months ago

                Understood. And I’m pointing out an example that makes it obvious how yellow is clearly white adjacent.

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                  5 months ago

                  In a fictive show. Except if you’re arguing that Simpsons is part of US culture. But Unicode is international.

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                    5 months ago

                    I understand that it’s fiction. But they choose yellow for white people because it’s white adjacent, and it stands out. No one is confused that these are white people. No one watches the Simpsons and is honesty confused as to what race they are supposed to be.