Apple's new emojis trigger online racial attacks
(WashPost):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/10/how-apples-new-multicultural-emojis-are-more-racist-than-before/?tid=pm_opinions_pop_b
"Apple on Thursday introduced its new racially diverse emojis, allowing
users to cycle through various shades of white and brown to customize
their emojis' skin colors. Some rejoiced, with choruses of "We made
it" flanked by newly black praise-hand emojis filling Instagram and
Twitter. Some even professed to cry tears of joy over this sign of
racial inclusion. But already, Apple's well-intentioned gesture to
human diversity has taken a turn for the worse. The emojis are being
used to make racist comments on social media and insert questions of
race in texts and tweets where it may never have arisen before.
Instead of correcting its mistake -- excluding people of color from
emojis -- Apple has, in some ways, made the situation worse."
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Another reason we can't have nice things.
--Lauren--
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