Hey, new federated user from Hexbear here

Just curious how many of you are cool with this deeply racist image being the header for one of your comms

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Sorry, I'm not quite sure how a picture mocking a specific person for something other than race is racist, let alone deeply so.
- It's just the dumbasses from hexbear making up nonsense to defend their favorite dictator
  
  It's not even someone they like, they just use it for easy trolling just like in this thread.
  
  Edited to add: don't feed the trolls by responding to anyone from hexbear. Just use your Lemmy client's features to block the user or the instance. Connect on Android has great blocking features.
  
  he's literally in my dm's right now laughing at you
  
  I'm just reporting all of them
  
  Love to see you still seething, nazi
- when a majority white community mocks a chinese man by comparing his appearance to a yellow bear, it's a little weird
  
  The comparisons were first made in China, actually. The only reason we even know about the comparison is because he got so offended by them, and we keep doing it because he's upset by it. It's more about shape than colour, especially since Xi Jinping tends to wear trousers.
  
  Hello Susaga! I'm going to repost a comment I made a few hours ago, in this instance:
  
  "Things can undergo a transformation, just because the original usage might have been innocent. If something starts being used by white racists or western imperialists in a racist way, would ya look at that, it’s racist.
  
  Also, it’s covert racism. It gives people plausible deniability. Like you are doing now.
  
  And there are historical precedents of this kind of racism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril"
  
  Could you demonstrate that transformation with other examples from here? Other asian people being compared to other yellow characters? Or has it remained specifically one person compared to one character?
  
  Are bears a common racist stereotype for asians? I havent seen it
  
  It's specific to Xi Jinping. Chinese memelords started it in ~2013, and the country's censors were so offended by it that the Streisand Effect kicked in.
- Okay putting you down as being okay with it. Got it ty
  
  I'm okay with it because it's not racist. What is there in this picture to not be okay with?
  
  The racism
  
  What racism? You have yet to explain what's racist about this picture. I am willing to accept that I'm wrong and I'm just not seeing it from the right perspective, but you have to be willing to explain why rather than just condemn.
  
  You don't see why tinting an Asian person's skin yellow is racist? Would you say the same thing about this?
  
  Alright, I can see that. Not deliberate, as they also tinted his suit red to heighten the comparison to Winnie the Pooh, who also has a yellow face, but I can see your perspective now you've actually given it. Deeply racist is absolutely a stretch, though, but "kinda racist" is absolutely correct.
  
  Oh well as long as you're absolutely sure the obvious racism wasn't deliberate it's okay
  
  It's not obvious! You posted a picture of a dictator with accidental racist undertones, called it deeply racist, and condemned anyone who didn't agree with your perspective as racist, despite not actually giving your perspective! To most of us, we see "dictator" before we see "asian guy". You're not attacking the picture, you're attacking the people on the same server as the picture. You being so quick to condemn makes it look like you're defending a dictator more than amending injustice, and being so hesitant to explain your reasoning makes you look like a troll more than an activist.
  
  You're a terrible representative of your own argument.
  
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  But now that I've given you my perspective, you unequivocally condemn this racism, yes?
  
  I condemn you, actually. Yes, the picture is poorly thought out and needs revision, even though it was designed for reasons other than racism. That's what you should have said. But you didn't want to fix the picture, you wanted to condemn everyone on this site for not condemning the picture.
  
  We accept that this image can be interpreted as racist, if one is unaware of the origin and original meaning of said image.
  
  You say this, and yet you are still ignoring the other racist parts in this image. almost like you don't care about the racism, and only picked one aspect about the image that was racist for the sake of having the moral high ground.
  
  Don't waste your breathe with these tankies man
  
  I would have expected 'deeply racist' to be readily apparent. Abut all you can come up with is you think someone tinted his skin slightly yellow? That's not even apparent to me, looking at the photo.
  
  That’s a reach lolol. Did Pooh Bear put you up to this? Promise a bump on your social credit score if you’d go online and say anyone that calls Xi Winnie the Pooh is racist?
  
  It’s not yellow because he’s Asian you raging edgelord, it’s cause he’s Pooh Bear, and Winnie the Pooh is yellow.
  
  Go back to licking your authoritarian, human rights abusing quasi-dictator’s boots ya fop.
  
  In what way is it racist? Is there a particular ethnicity which is commonly depicted as Winnie the Poo?

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