🧵⬆️ What I do know, circling back to the headscarf emoji 🧕 is that it was incorporated into unicode in 2017 and submitted to them in 2016 by a 15-year-old reddit user, which, if you recall, was a time of extreme Islamophobia in western politics. The responses to the reddit post are a horror show. 🧵⬇️

🧵⬆️ Which means that acting on any of these observations is very doable. Even an internet fascist's slippery slope runaway representation scenario where everyone starts submitting smiley-faces with cultural signifiers, maybe a tricorn hat, or a viking helmet, a sombrero, whatever, would be a win. 🧵⬇️