Backlash over New Emojis
April 10, 2015 11:36 AM   Subscribe

This is getting ridiculous. What are we supposed to do now, include every emoji with a pop-up transcript of Patton Oswalt's infamous Twitter diatribe? (I tried to link to it, but my iPad was misbehaving.) People are using the new emojis to make racist remarks and people who are not making racist remarks are afraid to use the new emojis because they could be misinterpreted.

If you and your friend are white, and you use two white emojis to illustrate this, someone could say "So, you would only have a white person for a friend!" Perhaps we should forget this emoji nonsense and use words like civilized people. Perhaps in one hundred years, there will be so many emojis that we develope a sort-of "shorthand" composed of, perhaps, 26 symbols that represent phonemes.
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This post was deleted for the following reason: Heya, this is not a workable way to frame a post for the front page of Metafilter. -- cortex



 

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