Or people can be themselves and their skin tone?

Are you against headshots with actual faces as icons as well?

I'm pretty much against avatars featuring people's actual faces too. Digital communication pretty much allows us to completely disregard another's appearance, so why reintroduce that via the backdoor?

Emoji segregation feels off and backwards.

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squigz 2 days ago | parent [-]

> Emoji segregation feels off and backwards.

Please explain in what way does segregation have anything to do with emojis?

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Freak_NL 2 days ago | parent [-]

Specific coloured emoji for people with a specific skin colour. Six thumbs up under a post about apple pie in the lounge now turns into five thumbs up in colour A and one in colour B. Suddenly the colour you pick, or don't pick in case of LEGO yellow, is a political statement. I can do without all that.

	▲	squigz 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's really only political if you think it is. Otherwise it's just people reacting with thumbs up. I've never once thought of it as anything else - and I've never seen it cause any sort of division. The idea that it could is absurd to me.

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hdjrudni 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

If someone uses my face as their avatar, yes.

If I use black skin tones as my default emoji set even though I'm white... I imagine others will find that weird at least.

	▲	John23832 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> If I use black skin tones as my default emoji set even though I'm white... I imagine others will find that weird at least. Then don’t? Why create some weird hypothetical? Just let people be who they are.