Turns out that piano player from that Reddit post the other day is just a racist
Really weird (/s) how quickly it went from a couple of Chinese tourists asking politely not be filmed to the guy embracing the racist Winnie the Pooh stereotype and talking about how oppressed Hong Kong and Taiwan are.
The Winnie the Pooh thing is just such nonsense to me. Even if we're going to pretend that it's banned in China and if you post it you get sent to an organ harvesting factory how in the fuck is it a valid form of protest while safely in the west? They aren't even burning them in effigy. It's just like the "ARE YOU TRIGGERED YET?" bullshit but for turbolibs. The bears are probably made in China. Fucking idiots.
It's not even a good caricature. You're saying Xi Jinping is a very polite bear who eats honey and has lots of friends? Everyone loves Pooh, so the only comparison I can see is racist. They'd rather call Xi Jinping a bunch of slurs
Libs all think they're Charlie Chaplin dunking on Hitler, or like I don't know...Dante putting all his political enemies in hell
The original meme that sparked all this was when someone compared a photo of Xi and Obama walking together with a photo of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger walking together
No points for guessing who was who
That one got iirc banned from Chinese social media but not Winnie the Pooh overall
It genuinely is the most brainwormed and pathetic thing. Worse than the 'ok' symbol thr right briefly popularized and then had the lubs freak out over.
In a way it is sort of fascinating though as a sort of expression of zombie politics. It's a sort of performative political act for in-group people and a countries where there is no real ideology in politics and they'll never actually any kind of tyranical oppression.
i don't know if it's funny or depressing the way western media convinces rubes they're "speaking to power" by soapboxing against state enemies in their own country.
a) how is Xi affected by this action b) how are you at risk for this action
Like people saying 'fuck the ccp' as though it meant something. Or that a few people asking not to be filmed represented the whole Chinese government.
It's terrifying that the US has a division of the military dedicated to killing people remotely with drones and such an easily manipulated population who would do so on Reddit in a heartbeat.
If you watch the original video it's apparent. He calls them Japanese even after they say they're Chinese (they're waving Chinese flags btw), and says other deranged shit.
haha chinese president is yellow animal because he's totalitarian (i love my political system founded by slave owners which produces millions of homeless people; it is a paragon of freedom and efficiency)
It was originally Chinese people comparing Xi and Obama to the characters because of the way they walked. That’s fine. But then westerners decided to make it some protest symbol.
Would you agree that political cartoons depicting Obama with big monkey ears and lips are racist even if political cartoons caricaturize all their subjects to the extreme?
If black people had made those cartoons originally it would just be black people doing something that's ok among black people. For example it's not particularly uncommon for black people to call black shoplifters a bunch of animals or apes or whatever. They're not doing it racially they're using it because they're just calling them animals. Same shit I do about football hooligans wrecking the town.
It completely changes context when it's white people saying it.
This is always so funny to me. Xi is the president of the most populated country on earth, and a state enemy to half the world. And yet what really bothers him are reddit memes
i never actually got the connection before now.. i just thought it was because he's kinda chubby and pooh is a little bit dopey.. didn't realize the yellow thing at all.. wow
Originally it was a meme about the way he and Obama looked while walking in a picture, and was innocuous. It began to be used as a way to refer to Xi Jinping in negative propaganda without directly putting his face on it and grew the racist connotations implicitly quickly after by new users of the meme, and the explicit usage with dog-whistled racism followed quickly thereafter with the excuse "we only do it because he doesn't like it."
If I had to guess he didn't care and maybe found it funny originally (if he even saw it early on) but using a caricature for politics instead of good critique is dumb and good to ban. And that's all this was