Does this person even know why the Simpsons are yellow?
Does this person even know why the Simpsons are yellow?
>MARGE WHY ARE WE YELLOW?
>jaundice...
>MARGE, I CAN'T BREATHE!
They're made of CHEESE
>color-blind racism
I’m assuming this means that trying to ignore that people are different from you cosmetically and just treat them all exactly the same is somehow racist
I mean, the point they are making is true. "Yellow" is an exact substitute for "default" in the Simpsons. Which is really stupid, because they could have just had *everyone* be yellow, and it would have worked.
But if everyone has the same skin color how are we going to know which ones are good and which ones are bad?
their hair
Why are Sherry and Terry so pale?
Honestly it would have been funnier if everyone was just "YELLOW".
What the FUCK point are they even trying to make?
I can't even tell if I agree or disagree with their view, because it's so poorly defined.
But white people can have black hair too.
How am I supposed to judge people for their skin color I mean for their privilege if I can’t tell who’s white
yes yes, we get the point you are clumsily making
In the new mentality being pushed, yes, its racist, the only way to not be racist while being white is mandatory castration, constant worship of people of other race than white for 30 years and a of course ritual suicide apologising for all the things you didn't do
Of couse, you'll still be a disgusting racist, but at least you'll be on the right path
I'm guessing the issue would be neglecting issues of racial discrimination and blah blah.
But this seems like it's more an issue of Default Whiteness.
Simpsons are white but they're Yellow, while everyone else is just brown or a lighter yellow.
It'd make more sense if they were at least a different shade of Yellow like the Asians usually are. Like Carl and Apu should be more an orange or reddish yellow.
Why do black people smell bad. Like not being racist, just a genuine question
They don't? Have you spent time around more than 3 black people?
I can't take it anymore.
What do you even do at this point to not offend someone?
Yes all the black people I know have a stench to them. Even my black friends. I live near a ghetto so I know a lot of them, and they smell like grease
So what you are actually asking is "why do poor people smell bad." The answer is that poorer people often do not have access to education and resources that lead to proper hygiene. I grew up around many well off black people and they had no difference in their smell to any white person. Go to a trailer park and smell the people there and see what their aroma is like.
The entire white neighborhood directly next to them (and it’s not a nice neighborhood) that I live in doesn’t have the same problem.
I hate to tell you this, but you are biasing your data. Go on and smell poor white people, and then go sniff some well off black people. If you don't get arrested, I think you will be surprised by your findings.
I am poor white people.
Why is the asian guy serving a head?
You can't do anything when people want to find something to be offended by
Someone use this knowledge to cancel Big City Greens
This shit is 100% like mental detritus. It isn't even stupid. In order to make this you brain needs to have fallen into shambles.
People sure get worse over the years if they ain't lovin the Lord.
Yellow people are meant to be White.
So using Yellow people as the default emoji/lego means that you're saying White is the default.
Being white is racist against non-whites.
I guess in their twisted logic they think simpsons is saying "Carl is Black, Apu is Brown, and Lenny is Normal." instead of what it actually is, "Carl is Black, Apu is Brown, Lenny is White".
All in all, it's kind of funny because yellow as the default for Emoji's comes from the fucking yellow-smile-button from the 1960's, which predates simpsons and lego people by a long shot and has absolutely nothing to do with being white, who looks at pic related and goes "Look how happy that white fellow is."
The worst part is you can't even argue that thought because they just say "umm even if it wasn't originally about that, it is NOW so it should be stopped." which can be said about anything now. Hell Zig Forums memed that the "Okay" handsign is actually a secret handsign for white power as a joke, and 6 months after the joke was so succesful that "Even if the Okay sign never had anything to do with white power, it does NOW because people are using it that way, and so it's now problematic and wrong and racist."
I think the biggest offender I saw, was a cosplayer dressed as Starfire getting absolutely slaughtered on Tumblr for cosplaying Starfire, because the Titans series has this orange skinned alien chick portrayed by a black actress, so any attempt to cosplay starfire is by default announcing that you think that the black actress isn't good which means you're saying blacks are bad.
>LEGO
They chose yellow because it's only one of the 5 (6 if you include transparent) colors they had at the time, that really worked for a skin tone. Black didn't work since their printing used black as a base, so most details would be lost.
Blue had the same problems as black, being a rather dark color, though not to the same extreme.
Red was their most used color, so it would have clashed with a lot of other bricks.
White was the primary "wall color" used in a lot of buildings. White was used as skin color on very early Duplo figures, since switched place in how often they where used for Duplo specifically, so it would stand out more.
Yellow was really only used as a accent color, so it was relatively rare among other bricks, it was light enough to easily print on, and it didn't look like any particular human race, so it was more easy for most people to see them as "just people".
LEGO only started having problems with the yellow skin tone when licensed themes, like Star Wars, Harry Potter, and the Sports line became a thing, since now the figures had established races. It's why all licensed themes have been using natural skin colors since 2004, since they specifically didn't want yellow to be or become a stand in for "white".
FFS, the native islanders of the Pirates theme, and the Indians of the Western theme had yellow skin too.
>Bringing Lego minis into this nonsense
>White was used as skin color on very early Duplo figures, since it and yellow switched place in how often they where used for Duplo specifically, so it would stand out more.
Forgot an important bit in the middle there.
To be creepy twins. They were supposed to be a bigger part of Bart’s life originally.
The worst point of all this, it's not blacks and people of colour who actually CARE about this shit, it's privledged middle-class white folk who unironically have the freedom to care about this shit entirely because of their incredibly privledged lifestyle, even at the expense of the people they are trying to "Save from Racism".
White Privlidged Americans screamed cancel at Katy Perry for wearing a Kimono. Japanese people liked others sharing in their culture.
White Privledged Americans screamed cancel at Mario for wearing a sombrero. Mexican people liked seeing their culture represented in Mario.
White Privledged Americans screamed cancel at the Washington Redskins. Native-American people are generally proud to support the team.
White Privledged Americans screamed cancel at Scarlet Johansen in Ghost in the Shell. Japanese people liked that a big name actress was playing her. A lot of Japanese people also thought Motoko was meant to represent an american in the anime because of her facial features.
White Privledged Americans screamed cancel at people celebrating lunar-festival new year if they're not chinese. Chinese people welcomed all to join their celebrations.
White Privledged Americans screamed cancel at somone wearing a demon halloween costume calling it blackface. Black people said "What the fuck, you look a that and think "Oh shit they are dressed as a nasty black person, Jerome im so sorry you had to see that.".
It's so pathetic that these white privledged americans have such a strong and ironically incredibly racist White-Savior complex, and they decry folks to "Check their privledge".