• WhyEssEff [she/her]
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    2 years 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

    • @Starshader@lemmy.mlOP
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      112 years ago

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

        • @Garfield@lemm.ee
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          2 years ago

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

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          322 years 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.”

        • raven [he/him]
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          312 years ago

          There’s no racial component to it at all

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

        • Bassword [he/him]
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          112 years 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.

        • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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          112 years 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.

      • @boredtortoise@lemm.ee
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        22 years ago

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