NPR recently published an article in which several interviewees share what skin color emojis they use and why they choose that specific color. The article then listed academics’ arguments for why using a yellow emoji is an act of “white privilege.”
“For me, it does signal a kind of a lack of awareness of your white privilege in many ways,” Berlin-based researcher Zara Rahman states in the article.
Rahman’s academic background includes a stint as a “Non-Resident Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University’s Centre on Philanthropy and Civil Society,” according to the researcher’s website.