Soldato
I use yellow because it's the default. if someone changed the default to red, black, white, brown, pink or purple, I'd use that instead.
Yellow emojis - do you guys still use them?
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Snap.
Same for me
See that's your privilege showing! You're comfortable assuming the default because of your "whiteness". (I think)
I think they're just angry that the default setting can be seen as easily catering to white people or that white people are happy to have the yellow hand represent them.
If you were to choose to use the black/brown emojis you'd pick an option that isn't the default, the option to do that is available to white people but because of their privilege, they often just use the default yellow option to represent themselves.
In reality though plenty of people simply haven't given it any thought and this is just the usual grievance scholars finding issues to complain about.
Something has to be the default and I've never seen a yellow human being so what's the fuss. 
I'm not the most academic person but I sometimes wonder if being part of the academia just means looking for really obtuse things to get annoyed at. Or rather get others annoyed at.
I'm not the most academic person but I sometimes wonder if being part of the academia just means looking for really obtuse things to get annoyed at. Or rather get others annoyed at.
Soldato
There'll be a PhD in there somewhereSomething has to be the default and I've never seen a yellow human being so what's the fuss.
I'm not the most academic person but I sometimes wonder if being part of the academia just means looking for really obtuse things to get annoyed at. Or rather get others annoyed at.
Soldato
??? But no one is yellow. I think you're overthinking it.
It was sarcasm, that's what the people referred to in the article are basically saying and yes, they are overthinking it!
East Asians have often been described as yellow.
Marty Mcfly also
Soldato
I use whatever the default is - if it's yellow I use yellow, if it's blue I use blue - it's just an icon, it doesn't represent anything other than a gesture or emotion (a thumbs up, a laugh til I cry etc) and the people claiming it's racist are (as always) the ones who are actually racist because 99% of people don't think "yellow Emoji = Asian" but apparently "anti-racists" do.
If this is a reference to my posts in this thread then I think you are mistaken. I'm referring to the fact that in the OP @dowie directly related the yellow emoji to East Asians, and knowing his history I'd bet it wasn't out of ignorance either.
If you weren't referring to my posts then I apologise for my confusion.
Not the case. I used to think that way but emojis and emoticons are useful so that people know your intentions. Punctuation is not the same since 'chat/forum' style comms is very new in human history and things can very easily get misconstrued.
Soldato
No problem, I hadn't read anyones posts other than Dowies necro-post with it's NPR tweet and it was content of that tweet which was the driver for my post.
I mean it has been associated with East Asians...
Justin is obviously making a joke in reply to the NPR tweet, it's hardly an obscure reference though...
Yes, obviously it's not obscure. I asked if you knew it was a slur, and judging by the way you've ignored those specific points and on your past provocative racial postings I assume you did not make the OP out of ignorance.
Calling someone "yellow" is dated, could be considered a slur in the same way as calling someone "colored" coud be, I don't see the relevance here so ignored as I do with most of the content you post...