Careful you don't use emojis portraying black people if you aren't black. You'll be guilty of cultural appropriation.
I guess she makes a good point though. I get so bloody annoyed when I hear about one of those blacks enjoying an episode of Seinfeld or Everybody Loves Raymond.
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Perhaps I get tired of using the default (and I assume Asian) yellow emoji.
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Well now all the time....I expect.
Isn't cultural appropriation just BS. I mean would we even have rocknroll if someone tapped Elivs on the shoulder and told him to stop that sort of thing. Anyhow I didn't see any evidence. The majority of the world population isn't even white are they just on twitter spamming black gifs all day.
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Total BS.
Should we stop wearing trousers because they are a Chinese invention? Every culture has borrowed from each other throughout history. And dreadlocks were present in many cultures simultaneously and aren't the sole preserve of black people.
Anyway, this whole white pride, black pride stuff is just a load of shite. Your skin colour is neither an achievement nor an entitlement to claim credit for the efforts of other people who happen to be the same shade of whatever. Your skin colour just means two people of whatever skin colour fucked. That's it. It's no more significant than ginger cats and tabby cats.
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GCaC
To be fair I'm sure Tabby's cat is too
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 15 Aug 2017, 11:41,
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I find labeling people as 'Black' and 'White' to be racially insensitive. Our skin colour isn't black, nor white. It's unnacceptable to call Asians 'yellow', is it not?
I propose we refer to the racial identity of individuals by their skin's closest RAL number or CMYK value. Much less potential for offense.
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Can we still call people with Jaundice "yellow"?
I hate those high bilirubin motherfuckers.
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Tue 15 Aug 2017, 11:44,
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Pantone Values are often referred to by their name.
I worry that the use of Pantone will only help to reinforce racial prejudice with the overuse of colours such as 'Nigger Brown', 'Dorset Pink' and 'Jewish Beige', amongst others.
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Ginger cats are predominantly male, about 75%.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 15 Aug 2017, 11:40,
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That is all well and good but what percentage of them are Scotch?
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Tue 15 Aug 2017, 11:53,
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Gender isn't about what they have between their legs you transphobe.
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Most domestic cats don't have anything functional between their legs. Snip snip.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 15 Aug 2017, 12:05,
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I can play chopsticks.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 15 Aug 2017, 12:28,
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Skin colour shouldn't be significant
But in Western cultures it definitely is.
A culture grew around a group who were (and sometimes still are) treated like shit precisely because of that attribute, then we turn round and say "oh it's just like having different colour hair". Sure it should be, but it isn't, and you can't pretend that shit didn't happen.
If homosexuality had never been seen as 'wrong' then there wouldn't be a gay culture. But it was and there is.
Nothing wrong celebrating that, just as we celebrate being English/Welsh/Scottish, our national days, our sports teams. I don't know where celebration ends and appropriation begins.
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Celebration is one thing, finger waving and saying "you cant have that because it's not YOUR culture" is another.
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I agree with whichever comedian it was
who said that there should be one flag for the world and it should be a cunt because we all came from our mother's cunt.
Of course then some people would complain about the colour of the cunt, the type of flaps it had, and whether it was a transgender cunt...
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What about caesareans?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 15 Aug 2017, 13:46,
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I don't care much for sea food
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I can be as bleeding heart liberal as they come
and I roll my eyes when the 'PC gone mad' brigade pipe up. But I struggled with this one.
Sure if you're sending black emojis & "yo ma nigga" to take the piss then yeah, she has a point.
But gifs? Michael Jackson eating popcorn? Really?
"Black people are not here for other people's entertainment"
Pretty sure the comedians pulling funny faces are doing exactly that regardless of their skin colour.
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I agree with her there.
I have NEVER been entertained by Michael Jackson.
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Did you not enjoy your diddling?
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If kiddy fiddling isn't done by Catholic priests, it's cultural appropriation.
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Yeah, I was just asking about specifically ethnic emojis
banning gifs is like saying you're not allowed to like the film its from
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That needs a NSFW tag. The old black and white minstrel footage is deeply offensive and has triggered me.
Also, the presenter's hair is not natural. It has been coiffed into a Caucasian style. That is cultural appropriation and therefore she is a racist. Plus she's wearing regular clothes, she ought to be wearing nothing but a grass skirt and intermittently chucking a spear.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 15 Aug 2017, 11:04,
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*looks forward to massive thread of exclusively middle-aged white men discussing what is and isn't "racist"*
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 15 Aug 2017, 11:43,
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No
but being white means you're not even allowed to have an opinion.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 15 Aug 2017, 11:57,
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Yeah
If there's one sort of people I never get to hear the opinions of, it's white people.
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As long as someone keeps a tab and writes it all down...
...I'll second the motion.
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Tue 15 Aug 2017, 11:58,
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You're assuming we're all white?
Bit racist mate....
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 15 Aug 2017, 11:59,
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Middle aged?
You silver tongued charmer
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Says the negro with white woman's hair
stick all that "cultural appropriation" bollocks up your arse or under your wig dear.
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