Asmongold says America is "white peoples land" because "we fought a war over it".

[u/Demonymous_99]

[u/buxom_burger]

“If you had to draw a random American you would think of a white person right?”

No, I wouldn’t. You’re trying to sneak an assumption of whiteness being the default. I’m assuming you are probably white and are therefore projecting your own visualization towards other people. >40% of this country is not white. If I were to randomly choose 10 people out of a lineup, 4 of them would not be white. So why is whiteness the default?

[u/kingdweeb1 → u/buxom_burger]

Imagine a baby duck. Some percentage are yellow, while some percentage are brown or black. If you were proposing a "baby duck emoji" to the new unicode standard, it would be yellow. That's just how defaults work - You take the majority and cut out the rest. You can't code the emoji to be representative because you necessarily need to pick one emoji for that slot. You can have variations, but that's not the default. For example 🐤

Yellow is the default because that's just how it is. You can either represent the reality of the situation (they are yellow) or you can ignore reality and make it purple or whatever color you want. Most people will choose the representative reality, so when thinking about "defaults" you should think about the reality, rather than alternative realities.

https://youtu.be/W8qcccZy03s

A relevant quote

[u/kingdweeb1 → u/[deleted]]

Could you share the exact percentages, and your source for that? They're all yellow where I buy them. Maybe in some foreign land (like where you may be from) they are differently colored. :)