> Many White people choose images of Black people when it comes to expressing exaggerated emotions on social media – a burden that Black people didn’t ask for, she says.
I can see why that would be pretty upsetting.
Seems like software could help with a lot of the frameworking around solutions to this issue, incidentally. Maybe starting simple, like with whatever process happens when you type the name of an emotion into your gif-search box...
If there's 'digital blackface', then I'm guessing there's also 'digital whiteface' and other 'digital [input race]face', or am I missing something? Either way, are those who are both white and black wrong when they use 'digital blackface'? /s
In woke thinking, it's OK to appropriate white culture because they're the oppressors. But then maybe black people using white memes are race traitors who are complicit in their own oppression... Pretty much everything is "problematic" in some way.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 18.4 ms ] threadI can see why that would be pretty upsetting.
Seems like software could help with a lot of the frameworking around solutions to this issue, incidentally. Maybe starting simple, like with whatever process happens when you type the name of an emotion into your gif-search box...
There are more better problems to solve and to focus on rather than this absolute garbage.