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Winnie the Pooh is now racist? I could have sworn it was just a jab at the Chinese president because he hates it.
Yes, the meme comparing the Chinese president to a yellow cartoon character with beady eyes is, in fact, racist.
Mods arrest this poster
he talks in memes
The president of China having strong feelings about Winnie the Pooh is on my top ten list of things that are definitely real.
Xi Jinping is a brutal totalitarian autocrat who hates Winnie the Pooh but allows this to exist at Shanghai Disney:
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.
yeah xi lies awake at night seething over some fucking racist nerds on the other side of the planet memeing that he looks like an archaic cartoon bear
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
that "half" is more like the richest 20% of countries lol.
They must think Xi is as mentally and emotionally fragile as Elon Musk
the original meme that was reportedly censored used a picture of Xi as Pooh and Obama as a character whose name rhymes with the N word
The potential of it causing diplomatic issues with it possibly being a racist meme targeted at Obama was the exact reason it was proactively censored.
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