Ryika
Lazy Wannabe Artista
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This random video I found on the BBC that I found on BBC while I was learning more about the world, and not at all in some other video on youtube, makes the case that using dark-skinned emojis is cultural appropriation. For reasons that are not really specified further, and even in the concept of cultural appropriation it doesn't seem to make much sense, given that "black skin" is not a cultural good, and that dark skinned emojis aren't something that black people have invented anyway, it's something that has been created specifically for the sake of diversity (which I don't really understand, as emojis are usually yellow for the exact reason of being race-neutral, but that's another story.
The lady in the video also spouts the opinion that memes that depict black people are racist, because it uses black bodies as means of entertainment.. or something. I guess that's like in voodoo, when you catch somebody's soul and then force it to do whatever you want. The lady also calls it "digital blackface".
I had always assumed that the people who use these memes are just having a good bit of fun at the expense of nobody, and that given that there are all sorts of image memes that do generally not look in a negative light at the characteristics of the people involved (although racist ones most certainly exist) these memes are mostly color blind, but the lady in the video makes the argument that actually, they're pretty much people sharing black expressions as if they were attractions in a circus.
Well. I guess that's one way of looking at it. One that I don't agree with, but maybe you do?
The lady in the video also spouts the opinion that memes that depict black people are racist, because it uses black bodies as means of entertainment.. or something. I guess that's like in voodoo, when you catch somebody's soul and then force it to do whatever you want. The lady also calls it "digital blackface".
I had always assumed that the people who use these memes are just having a good bit of fun at the expense of nobody, and that given that there are all sorts of image memes that do generally not look in a negative light at the characteristics of the people involved (although racist ones most certainly exist) these memes are mostly color blind, but the lady in the video makes the argument that actually, they're pretty much people sharing black expressions as if they were attractions in a circus.
Well. I guess that's one way of looking at it. One that I don't agree with, but maybe you do?
