🤮 they are also anti racist…

Read the foot note:

This choice of emoji represents “another man” (of any ethnicity) rather than a Black man specifically; I regret that I have to spell this out, but unfortunately, structural racism makes people interpret the depiction of a person as POC as informationally salient, rather than incidental and representative of “people in general”. As committed anti-racists, we hope for a day when “👨🏿” can be simply read as “man”—after all, there are far more POC in the world than white people, even if the Eurocentric cultural hegemony obscures that fact