Xi as Winnie the Pooh is racist

It's less that and more "ohh, it's fine when they say it, but when I say it, it's racist" which isn't reasonable in the first place for the n-word, but doubly so in this case since we know there's a lot of racism going around in the HK independence "movement."

I challenged this notion with a lib the other day.

The watermelon originated in Africa. That doesn't mean that the vile caricaturised depictions of black people eating watermelons is somehow not inherently racist.

You can also look to the origin and continuing usage of the swastika, especially in Asian cultures, as another example here - you aren't going to tell me that the right-angled unicode swastika being used by westerners on the internet isn't done in service of fascism 99% of the time.

And on that matter, don't let erm-ackshually dorks tell you that the 90 degree swastika wasn't used by Nazis and isn't representative of them. One of the most famous depictions of the Nazi swastika is a right angled one:

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1214749781387436032/pu/vid/450x360/o0Nxlts0lffM8lUv.mp4

I'm on hexbear so I can't see the downvotes lmao 🤣

I just see the overall score

These colonial worshipping kids have been kneeling so long that they've forgotten how to stand.

Their beloved 'prime minister' Churchill has quotes that wouldn't feel out of place in Hitler's collection:

“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion”

[the Pashuns] needs to “recognise the superiority of race”

“I hate people with slit eyes and pigtails. I don’t like the look of them or the smell of them — but I suppose it does no great harm to have a look at them.”

We shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them… as civilised nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations. I believe in the ultimate partition of China—I mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

The last one still rings true with the "just the government not the people" libs nowadays.

It's the same as those homophobic memes of Putin in makeup or kissing Trump, "bigotry is fine if it's used against someone I don't like"

The "Xi got butthurt and banned all of Winnie the Pooh in China" thing is mind numbingly easy to disprove. Just search the phrase on literally any Chinese internet service. If they still spout that claim, they've obviously not done even one minute of research or fact checking and are so clearly just blindly regurgitating propaganda (which they also accuse people who support China of doing, funny how that works) that all of their opinions on China can be safely ignored.

You know what I did when I first heard that claim? I went straight to Baidu and searched up Winnie the Pooh, in English even, and surprise surprise it returned results like any other search engine. And this was when I was still a liberal who didn't like China.

Anti N-word Aktion.

First they ban the letter N, now they ban the letter Z, soon there will be no letters left!

This meme was deep in the comments of the post about that, and I thought it deserved some time front-and-center!

okay, lemmy user Colour_me_triggered

Xi Jinping is stupid

the chinese state is supposedly a ruthless machiavellian cunning genocidal dictatorial power structure but the guy who climbed to the top of it is dumb?

It's not deliberate

Your point is mentioned by the meme.

(But I disagree with the meme. Saying you are not allowed to satirically compare asians with characters that happen to be yellow is a problematic statement in itself.)

Are you using it in the original contex? No. So then it doesn't

Rap music also started in the black community but that hasn't stopped white racists from using tropes and out of context snippets from rap music to attack black people.

Is that context crucial though?

It gets brought up every time its pointed out how this is rascist, and it doesn't make the use of this mene less rascist

Yeah and that meme had Obama as "tigger". Wonder why...

The meme starting in China doesn't mean much. Pretty sure Chinese people can make racist memes too.

It did, as a light-hearted joke comparing Xi and Obama walking side by side with a resembling image of Tiger and Pooh. Of course, westerners then proceeded to take it and turn it into their own distortion and elaborate some story about how China is banning Winnie the Pooh and that is why painting a chinese man yellow with photoshop is a sign of resistance against a government on the other side of the globe and totally not racist.

It resembles a lot the same thing that happened with that image that floated the internet around a few years ago of Putin photoshoped as a stereotypically and comically flamboyant homosexual man, which is totally not homophobic even if the punchline is "he's gay" because you can always make it up that the image is banned somewhere and thus is a sign of resistance and contains no reactionary sentiment behind.

Mostly depends on the shading the artist uses. He's often depicted just as yellow as rabbit, or just as orange as Tigger.

You dont even have to like Xi to think racism against Chinese using his face is bad. Its like respecting Ezra Miller's pronouns. It doesnt matter what you think of the person, bigotry isnt ok.

Also this post is literally defending racism with homophobia which is very big brain.

Oh no the local edgelord has arrived guys

Have white people, the dominant race in The West for centuries now, ever been enslaved / racially abused / seen as lesser people because of their skin? Is walking around in any way dangerous for a white person just because of their skin color? We in The West have experienced a dominant white culture through decades of racism and colonialism. White thinking is, to this day, the dominant power structure in Western countries. To say racism against white people can't happen, is indeed stupid. Individual white people can be hurt by statements made against their race. But it will never hurt the social-economic and priviliged status of the white person in current western society.

Read up on the Yellow Peril to learn why it is highly problematic to call Asians 'yellow' and why no similar campaign has ever been started to dehumanize white people.