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ill give you a hint one of these was widely condemned by Americans across the political spectrum as racist. and the other is considered totally fine.
im undelteting because I AM right and I should say so, potential trolls be danmed
thanks for the reassurance.
Being banned on Chinese social media and arrested for spreading purely hateful images is not the own that libs think it is.
Bro like you just got banned by the mods lmao and suddenly you’re a victim of the evil CPC and have appearences on a white loser’s talk show.
Reactionaries used the “we depicted Dubya as a monkey so it’s not racist to depict Obama as a monkey since depicting presidents as monkeys is part of US political satire” excuse throughout his presidency. Just because the mayos don’t see it doesn’t mean that everyone else doesn’t see it for what it is.
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THEY DIDNT HAVE TO TINT HIS FUCKING SKIN THOUGH
or edit his eyes
Famously, when you are trying to do racist asian caricatures, you make the eyes more circular.
Love y’all, but I really think the claim that this meme is racist is a huge stretch.
I don’t think its a stretch considering the cultural context for the imagery has now been lost across borders.
Lemmy is not Chinese social media, this image of the President Xi as its being used now is in a racist and anti-communist context especially now that the inquiring thread has been locked and many comments deleted with no actual action done.
It is a well known tactic of white racists to use humiliation as a way to stifle dissent. Painting the head of the Chinese state as a yellow, gluttonous cartoon bear
has the same effect as chasing black folks in klan uniforms. The absurdity is the point. It dehumanizes the other while making it difficult for them to defend themselves (“who wants the ‘defend’ the cartoon bear”).EDIT: My comparison to the KKK was faulty, there can’t be a comparison to physical violence here, my desired point was that was to highlight that in Reconstruction: black folks were often humiliated by the description of klan members being so absurd (chased by a man in a white ghost outfit) when reporting to the authorities or the mainstream press. I meant that aesthetics also has a way of demoralizing others. It doesn’t feel safe to be in a space where this type of imagery is normalized. Imagine trying to have a discussion about the CPC and the other person comes to you with “haha yellow bear.”
Humiliation and ridiculous caricature are not tactics unique to white racists. That’s more reaching.
That’s missing the point. The “yellow bear” caricature is so useful to white supremacists because its another avenue to dehumanize the communist party. They use it because it allows them to infiltrate these spaces to spread reactionary propaganda. “MeanwhileOnGrad” is an anti communist space that gains legitmacy from liberals because it adopts mainstream reactionary propaganda that liberals created.
We are in an international, primarily english speaking, federated social network platform. This is not the same as posting images of Winnie the Pooh to evade/agitate moderators and admins in China. You cannot appropriate something like this.
We should ask: who benefits from this type of imagery? The answer is most definitely not the Chinese people.
The meme being used by and useful to anti-communists in general and anti-Xi people in particular doesn’t make it racist.
I’m not saying people should use it (mostly because I think it’s cringe), but I also don’t think it’s racist and calling people who use it racist instead of just cringe looks unserious.
when you are trying to do racist asian caricatures, you make the eyes more circular.
I don’t think this is true at all
It was sarcasm.
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