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Not my intent to offend anyone and plus I'm not American so I might not know your culture well enough, but please don't. Why should we insert race in technology
by lightspot21 5y ago
Not my intent to offend anyone and plus I'm not American so I might not know your culture well enough, but please don't. Why should we insert race in technology when 1) it's not useful and 2) it's not relevant at all. I mean, who even cares whether the smiley face is white or black or whatever else? It's just a smiley face. IMHO there are more significant areas to care for.
- NetOpWibby 5y agoLOL Technology is made for people. People are all sorts of shades. Other chat apps give people the ability to modify skintone on several emoji. Good grief.
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- gibolt 5y agoWhy give the option for gender selection or character customization in video games? People care about seeing themselves represented. It doesn't hurt anyone to have options (other than those who have to wade through supporting unicode standards)
- lucgommans 5y ago> who even cares whether the smiley face is white or black or whatever else? If it doesn't matter, why not let people choose whatever they like? Personally I'm also wondering if having specifically white and specifically black thumbs-ups does not introduce more racial bias rather than the generic yellow default that I was used to, but I did notice people of color using specific colors so perhaps it does matter, at least for some of them. The rest of us can just be on (the afaik neutral) yellow, presuming that makes everyone happy.
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- R0b0t1 5y agoMy skin is blue and I feel oppressed.