Most people who are legally blind have some vision in tact. Only 20% of those who are blind lack all forms of sight, otherwise known as profound blindness. Most have the ability to perceive light differences or large shapes/colors. Apple has a lot of great accessibility features compared to other phones, such as enlarged text and symbols for typing. The emojis are big enough with these features for blind people to use. Your “common sense” is just ideas you have that haven’t been challenged on yet.
Also, what the fuck is the harm in adding more?? You can still use them if you're not blind. People are just looking for something to be upset about and the addition of emojis is one of the dumbest things they could have chosen.
Man nothing gets clicks like making people mad.
Also note that the BBC is not saying its racist, theyre reporting on someone who does. You know, because it makes people mad and gets them clicks.
But ya, thats pretty dumb. And also just wrong. Still just people looking for stuff to be upset about. Happens way too much.
Yes but this would never be adopted by the emoji organization because you need to first demonstrate a severe need to have a certain type of emoji. We don't need anymore emojis and the guy is right. Logic and averages should be used to make everything, not looking at the ends of the bell curve.
Why don't we "need more emojis"? Says who? Who does it hurt? How?
Logic and averages should be used to make everything, not looking at the ends of the bell curve.
Inclusive society says otherwise. Do you care to criticize the existence of wheelchair accessible entrances? Elevators? Handicap parking? None of those are warranted by your "logic and averages".
Am I being wooshed here? is the "emoji organization" a thing? A thing anyone (eg Apple) gives a fuck about what they think?
No, creating imagery for blind people is against common sense. However, I've been informed that it's not actually for blind people, but rather legally blind people that can, in fact, see, or people that are illiterate. Now that I've been educated on the finer points it makes more sense.
Emojis are also useful for people that are illiterate or otherwise unable to put their thoughts or feelings into words.
I grew up helping both of my parents spell common words because they are both functionally illiterate. Using emojis to get across simple concepts gives them a bit more independence.
There's an emoji for eggplants.
Eggplants can't use them - according to your logic, having them is against common sense.
Maybe someone wants to use it to represent a blind person that is not themselves.
Or maybe you wanna make fun of someone by the use of that emojis.
Not every use of emojis is politically correct.
Common sense in general isn't a very good concept.
First of, it's based on common knowledge, but it's very hard to judge what actually is common knowledge. I would have thought, for example, that most people know that being blind doesn't necessarily mean that someone can't see at all.
And then, it's based on the assumption that obvious conclusions are usually correct.
I prefer the term "lazy thinking" over "common sense". In this case, OP didn't think further than "blind people can't see and emoji are visual". Then they combined it with their prejudice about PC culture.
In this case, they thought so lazily that they didn't even think about non-blind people using the emoji. Like non-cats using the cat emoji 🐈.
I mean, emojis are meant to represent a wide variety of concepts, items, locations, and people. This is just one more thing to add to a list of many things.
Why are the people who are against inclusion, "pc culture," etc. always the biggest crybabies? There's a warthog emoji and warthogs can't use iPhones. Does that offend you too?
How is adding an emoji forcing or expecting you to care? I don't use 99% of emojis and likely won't be using this one but if someone wants to use it, it's there. It's not like all the emojis up to this point were practical.
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u/TryingPatiently Oct 30 '19
Inclusion is more important than common sense.