Okay, that’s it.

I’m exclusively using black emojis from now on.

Plus the Indian guy in the turban.

No more yellow for me.

RT:

Washington-based National Public Radio was ridiculed on Wednesday after it published an article which analyzed what skin color emojis were ethical for various races to use.

The article, titled, ‘Which skin color emoji should you use? The answer can be more complex than you think’, featured interviews with people of various races who discussed the racial justice components of cartoon emojis and whether it is OK for white people to use dark-skinned or ‘neutral’ yellow characters.

Some white people may choose 👍 because it feels neutral — but some academics argue opting out of 👍🏻 signals a lack of awareness about white privilege, akin to society associating whiteness with being raceless.https://t.co/9g3rochT0K

— NPR (@NPR) February 9, 2022

“Some white people may choose [the yellow thumbs up emoji] because it feels neutral – but some academics argue opting out of [the white thumbs up emoji] signals a lack of awareness about white privilege, akin to society associating whiteness with being raceless,” the NPR article stated.

It was noted in the piece, however, that some white people purposely use dark-skinned emojis in overwhelmingly white spaces to “even the playing field.”

The article was quickly ridiculed online, with critics mocking the amount of effort the three reporters who contributed to the piece supposedly put into it.

Incredible that it took *three* NPR employees to write something this stupid. pic.twitter.com/8KtXWN0sIz

— Christopher F. Rufo ️ (@realchrisrufo) February 9, 2022

Conservative commentator Lauren Chen wrote, “Measuring ‘privilege’ through emoji usage is the most privileged thing I’ve ever heard.”

“So important we fund this work with our tax dollars. Thank you NPR,” former New York Times tech reporter Nellie Bowles said.

If the blacks want to stop me from using black emojis, they’re gonna have to kill me.

Come at me.

The BBC was doing this years ago

I don’t remember where I was on 9/11, but I’m never gonna forget where I was the first time I saw the pregnant man emoji.

The Guardian:

A pregnant man, a multiracial handshake and a face that cannot bear to watch are some of the emojis that will hit devices over the next year, according to a draft list published by the Unicode Consortium, which approves icons for use.

The new emojis, illustrated by Emojipedia to celebrate World Emoji Day on Saturday, all but complete the consortium’s drive to offer masculine, feminine and gender-neutral versions of every available emoji, as well as a selection of skintones.

Trans and non-binary pregnancies will now be represented in the emoji set, thanks to two new gender options for the “pregnant woman” emoji, while “person with crown” joins “prince” and “princess” for gender-neutral royalty.

The additions, which follow a similar update to the “bearded person” emoji that allowed users to choose between a masculine and feminine bearded face, “will mean that nearly all emojis can have default a gender-neutral option, with choice to use a woman or man where relevant”. said Jeremy Burge, the chief emoji officer of the reference site Emojipedia.

They come in all colors

A few emojis remain without a gender-neutral option, largely in cases where it is unclear what an appropriate gender-neutral approach entails. The two dancer emojis, for instance, depict a male disco dancer and a female flamenco dancer: options under discussion include offering identically attired versions of each for other genders (allowing men to depict themselves dazzling in a red dress, for instance); offering gender-appropriate alternatives (with a new male flamenco dancer); or, the preferred option, deciding on a dancing style to offer in a gender-neutral version. Emojipedia has suggested breakdancing.

Well, it’s time to either figure out the tranny versions, or retire those emojis.

We’ve all had enough of those racist emojis anyway.