The most important takeaway here is that the New York Times so consistently refuses to hire people of color that they have not a single brown person who could provide commentary on this.
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the yellow versions are the default (these hands belong to the smiling emoji faces, you guys), and I am immediately suspicious of any white person who went out of their way to change their preferred hands from default yellow to white. Like, you really really need people to know that you are a White American®
I love these emojis and as a black girl, use them in place of yellow. I do have a bone to pick with them tho - very rarely are people have that much melanin in their palm. Of course, it’s a super tiny image and that much fidelity isn’t necessary, but it’s always bothered me.
I would just ask her next time she texts you one, “Curious why you use the brown emoji?” or something. I personally agree that it’s weird and it’s okay to ask in a non-confrontational way if it gives you good information about the kind of person they.
I mean, you could ask her. She could just be trying too hard. Doesn’t mean she’s a racist POS. But what do I know? I wish they’d just make the damn things green or something then we can avoid this crap. Haha.
This is why I always use the yellow skin default for emojis. I’m more comfortable just letting people assume my race is “Simpsons”
tell your white friends to not use the goddamn brown hand emoji.
Cultural appropriation is neutral anyway. Whether it’s good or bad or in between depends on the details. Using the term by itself is useless when discussing harmful behavior. It’s more efficient and clearer to just go into those said details and not use the term at all actually.
The white people I know who use the brown emoji hands are always, like, blond yoga/dance instructor who is definitely not invited to the cookout. And they always make a huge point of only using the brown hands.
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I don’t think the issue here is that the white guy is dispensing advice about when to use brown hand emojis. I think the issue here is that the white guy’s advice is fucking stupid and oblivious.
I mean the white one or the yellow one is the default so I think it’s pretty stupid to go out of your way to use a brown one. But having said that, do other brown people care? As a brown myself, I don’t think I do.
Yeah, I LOOOVE it when the STEM train really gets going, and I get to point out that Apple was so successful because of their GUI, arts focus, and clever advertising (that had to be WRITTEN! And made into VIDEO!).
I have a secret english minor under my STEM double major. Arts classes are legitimately SO MUCH WORK, if you’re doing them right!! Every time some shitty engineer (I hung out with plenty during my foolish youth) started to shit on BA students, they were always the ones barely passing based on group work. Zero time and…
I hate the way people denigrate the arts because “STEM is the future!” Well, STEM can’t be the future for everyone, and people still watch movies, read books, and listen to music. Making it in the arts is hard but not impossible. Most people seem to think the only successful artist is a famous artist. My friends who…
He made the following claim: George W. Bush appointed specific Supreme Court judges so that they would vote in his favor during Bush v. Gore.
We had That Guy in grad school, too, and he became so tiresome and longwinded that I just zoned out whenever he started pontificating. Such a waste of air and space. He spark notes Hegel once and suddenly it’s like he can’t sleep at night if he doesn’t say “dialectic” once per seminar. GTFO and go skim the actual…
“I HAVE TO HAVE A LOUD IMPORTANT PHONE CONVERSATION IN THE COMMON AREA SO NO ONE FORGETS HOW IMPORTANT I AM I’M THE MOST IMPORTANT LAWYER MAN AROUND” my experience from working at a number of firms.
I’m not in a science field, but in grad school, I had That Guy in my class — the one who never does the reading or homework but can’t stop participating in discussion.