• WhyEssEff [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      if i had to guess, probably. it’s somewhat of a plausibly-deniable dogwhistle for ‘asian = yellow’. not saying you meant that, just that I don’t blame the mods for their hypervigilance here

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        1 year ago

        Oh wow. I honestly didn’t thought about that. I may be an ass sometime but… not like that :o !

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            There’s no racial component to it at all

            That’s a pretty bold statement to make. Have you seen the west?

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            1 year ago

            i wonder why western redditors found a depiction of an asian president as a fat yellow bear and a black man as a character called Tigger so funny 🤔 definitely no racism here, no sir

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            1 year ago

            Wow, look at this racism denial from the same person who was criticizing Tankies for genocide denial.

            “The meme was started by a Chinese person, therefore it can’t be racist” is just a new veneer on “black rappers use the n-word in music, therefore it’s not racist if I use it.”

          • autismdragon [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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            1 year ago

            Have you considered that the meme might have different impact coming from a Chinese person ribbing their leader than a white westerner echoing it? The former might be “light ribbing” but the later is racist. Who says a thing matters significantly on whether its ok to say. You know this very well because I’d hope you’d know that its not ok for white people to use the soft r n word even though many black people use it.

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            1 year ago

            the Chinese government decided to crack down on it hard

            Deleting some memes from Weibo isn’t a “hard” crackdown, westerners just want to pretend it is and for some reason still care ten years later.

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          Yeah, the comments of yours in the modlog are rude but the mod is definitely reaching and banning you for dissent