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Instead, some white people may stick with the yellow emoji because they don't want to assert their privilege by adding a light-skinned emoji to a text, or to take advantage of something that was created to represent diversity.
Perhaps, like Heath Racela, they simply don't want to think about how their message could be interpreted.
But Zara Rahman, a researcher and writer in Berlin, argues that the skin tone emojis make white people confront their race as people of color often have to do. For example, she shared Sarai Cole's confusion when someone who is white uses a brown emoji, so she asked some friends about it.
The Corp for Public Broadcasting is 99% taxpayer money - so include that as well. Consider it an indirect taxpayer source.
The same can be said for publicly funded universities with NPR stations. That's indirect tax money.
Donations to this non-profit endeavor are deductible on tax forms. That's more indirect tax subsidies.
It all starts adding up.
Then churches are paid for by the federal government as well because you deduct tithe.
All children too because you can write them off too. You don’t support your kids, the government does it
And everyone’s medical bills because they are tax deductible
It adds up.
A White person using a yellow emoji is culturally appropriating Oriental pigmentation.
Cultural appropriation is cool now.
Whoopi Goldberg changed her last name to Goldberg when she first got into acting years ago, because she said that Jews control Hollywood and they'd give her a chance if she had a Jewish last name. Totally not racist.
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