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.

  • Magician [he/him, they/them]
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    321 year ago

    Oh yeah, it was weird reading the comments on reddit-logo .

    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.

  • D61 [any]
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    241 year ago

    On this week’s episode of “I used to be a Progressive but now…”

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    281 year ago

    Fucking weird idiot. And those Chinese are painfully naive to still be visiting Anglo countries that hate them and do shit like this all the time.

    • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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      331 year ago

      Chinese scientists and researchers are already starting to leave the west in significant numbers, and this trend is probably going to accelerate

      Western racism will help china deal with brain drain the same way their sanctions helped russia become more self sufficient

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      81 year ago

      Those Chinese people should have studied up on English culture and resolved this situation the traditional way: with a knife in an alley.

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    Winnie the Pooh is now racist? I could have sworn it was just a jab at the Chinese president because he hates it.

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      331 year ago

      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)

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      221 year ago

      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

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        211 year ago

        Xi Jinping is a brutal totalitarian autocrat who hates Winnie the Pooh but allows this to exist at Shanghai Disney:

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      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?

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        171 year ago

        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.

    • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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      291 year ago

      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

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        241 year ago

        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

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    531 year ago

    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.

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      171 year ago

      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.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      231 year ago

      if you post it you get sent to an organ harvesting factory

      ASPI has exclusive photographic evidence of that organ harvesting factory:

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      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

      • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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        111 year ago

        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

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    401 year ago

    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

  • What_Religion_R_They [none/use name]
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    221 year ago

    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.