Why White People Don’t Use White Emoji
Light-skin-tone symbols are used far less often in the U.S. than their darker counterparts. Does shame explain the disparity?
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/white-people-dont-use-white-emoji/481695
#emojis #unicode
“Every time I use an emoji, I have to make a choice: Do I use a colored racemoji, and draw attention to my ethnicity (even when it’s not pertinent), or do I use a default emoji, which may misrepresent me altogether?” he wrote in an email. “It’s disempowering because people of color are uniquely burdened with this choice.”
(...) White people don’t have to use racemoji or risk denying their identity, as Mukerjee does; the default works fine. Perhaps the squeamishness on the part of whites has more to do with the acknowledgement that only white people hold this special privilege; to use the white emoji is to express a solidarity with people of color that does not exist.
So it becomes a self-reinforcing cycle.
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C’est l’affichage unicode quand il n’y a pas de police spécifique ou de logiciel d’interprétation. Soit le caractère + la couleur en gris.
?+ ? = thumbs up de couleur.