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> I imagine that if I had dark skin, I'd feel a bit alienated by this experience.

And the change is literally skin deep. They added skin color, but not racial features. The "black man" emoji just looks like a white guy with dark skin.

Imagine if I was a dwarf. I'd feel a bit alienated that all emojis are of tall people. Shouldn't there be a dwarf modifier for every emoji: dwarf man facepalming, dwarf woman shrugging, dwarf man bride, &c

If you felt yellow is too white, they should have changed emojis to magenta or something. Adding variants makes them unusable.




Let's make them all dark brown then. I'm sure you wouldn't object.


Seems fair. All the initial homo sapiens had black skin, so I guess it would be more representative.




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