Gotta stop confusing CCP supporters for leftists
Gotta stop pretending “left” and “right” are useful labels to apply to politics too.
They are useful, but as any other category they can be instrumentalized.
They aren’t useless, but they are pretty broad strokes that will always have a use as long as we’re talking about any de facto two party states (e.g. those with FPTP voting systems).
It’s also worth remembering that the population of one country’s idea of left wing politicians might actually end up being right wing elsewhere (for instance, people in the US saying their liberals are lefty when in most of Europe they would be considered center-right or just plain right-wing).
That’s not what makes the terms useful.
US Democrats aren’t left and the term is still useful in European politics.
I’m not really saying what makes them useful, that’s a long list. I was more going for saying they’re not useless, but are potentially pretty ambiguous without additional context due to how people use them.
Please elaborate how “equality” and “hierarchy” based policies aren’t useful labels for politics anymore.
I’ve always liked a 2 axis spectrum. Social ownership/ private ownership on one axis. Authoritarian / libertarian on the other.
Especially “horseshoe” politics. Leftist just means centrist.
Horseshoe theory is basically regarded as nonsense by anyone that knows about politics.
It’s pretty much only parroted as alt-right propaganda these days
You’re right
The current situation is certainly making that clear.
Of course, but I didn’t thought there were so many of them here.
They’re all over hexbear and lemmygrad
Just like neighborhoods in real life, you have to find a neighborhood you like. I wish it was more explained when you first sign up, but it does matter what instance you make your home. That instance decides what’s on your front page and the tone of your stay on Lemmy. Lemmy.ml is not a good fit for you it seems like, so try another neighborhood (or instance).
avoid lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear
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Lemmy is a community hosted system, and a lot of the user base came here after leaving other platforms (mostly reddit) because of the owners making it worse and worse trying to copy other platforms like tiktok.
And you’re wondering why everyone here has problems with capitalism.
That’s not even mentioning the other huge problems with capitalism.
What?
FOSS is great, I like the idea of people from all over the world contributing towards software that benefits the user rather than the creator.
I fail to see how that equates to “communism good” though. That’s a huge leap in thinking. Really weird when surely most people on here live and benefit from capitalist societies.
I fail to see how that equates to “communism good” though.
The problem is that very few people make the decisions that impact everyone on the platform, which ends up meaning “capitalism bad”. Fixing that problem with a system that’s basically owned by users is sort of like making the system communist.
surely most people on here live and benefit from capitalist societies.
Sure they live in capitalist societies, but do they honestly benefit from it being capitalist more than they would from it being communist or socialist?
You’re not even federated with the tanky instances…
I give you a hint: lemmy is a decentralized, non commercial platform. The captalists are still on rddit
The captalists are still on rddit
Not all of us.
I’ve put some thought into how to respond to this but I just can’t get past “capitalism bros” so I’ll just say this, you can criticize the current market economy system most of the west has without being a full on communist. And those that are content with capitalism aren’t going to go out of their way to be a “capitalism bro”. So of course dissenting voices to the current status quo are going to be amplified here. Try to learn from others perspectives instead of seeking validation
I meant that light heatedly but I see how that could come across as an immature comment. I guess where I’m coming from and failed to articulate in a constructive way is that I’m surprised there’s so much support for communism when likely most of the people on here live in capitalist societies that though have issues still allow them enough freedom to make those statements without fear of punishment.
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They’re on exploding-heads.
CCP supporters = wumao
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According to the political compass, authoritarians are up-ists.
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China is a corporatist authoritarian state. Basically late stage capitalism with a bunch of steps skipped. Corporations married to the government. Where the right wing in America is headed.
don’t see where you mentioned tiananmen square, maybe it’s the dogwhistle for ‘chinese = yellow’ that you either unknowingly or knowingly used
Banned for making bad (and kind racist) “xinnie the poo” jokes, lmfao
Question: How is a “xinnie the poo” joke racist when it refers to one individual specifically?
Has it already advanced to be used against all chinese?It isn’t. It’s not saying Chinese people look like Winnie the Pooh. Or even than he looks like Winnie because he’s Chinese or asian. It’s just a coincidental resemblance. And people wouldn’t use it as a pseudo-insult if it didn’t upset him so much. Which is kind of baffling why anyone would be upset at that comparison; it makes you seem lovable.
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Is it racist? Or is it mocking someone among others and delighting in the known fact that it makes a deplorable person upset? Same thing with mocking Trump for small hands.
Also, it doesn’t seem like it originates from racism: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xi-jinping-winnie-the-pooh-comparisons
I don’t hang around in racist circles, but I’ve never seen it used in what others have said below. Have you seen it used that way commonly?
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Barack Obama in which the Asian man is compared to a yellow bear, and the black man is compared to an African cat named “Tigger”. If you saw people calling Obama “Tigger” (or “a tigger”, so be a bit less subtle about it) as an epithet, I seriously doubt you’d be willing to accept claims of ignorance,
Wait, what? Tigers are not native to Africa. They are an Asian cat.
You do it to identify yourself to other American liberals as a consumer of John Oliver or Stephen Colbert’s TV shows. I think it’s petty and stupid to substitute fandom for politics, but at the end of the day, correcting you on that isn’t terribly important to me
And yet you still do it.
I’m no expert, but by all accounts he seems to be a pretty boring guy that says pretty normal generic shit about development, stability, and cooperation.
He can be the nicest dude ever but he leads a control with an iron-grip on speech and media consumption, which is anathema to most english-speaking countries. Also you know, the genocide.
constructed through your consumption of English language capitalist media.
Aaaaand there we go. Tankie talking points.
toward the end of justifying a nuclear war
Scare tactics! If you knew the first thing of geopolitics, you’d know this would never, ever happen. If russia isn’t going to lob nukes when it’s getting its ass handed to it, China won’t have a reason to.
This whole little diatribe is full of inaccuracies, huge ass-pulls and insinuations that are so wild as to be ridiculous. And as soon as you actually get a little specific, you throw your entire argument away.
Are you really asking why it’s racist for white settlers to call the Chinese head of state a yellow animal? Do you think it wasn’t racially motivated when people made similar “jokes” about Barack Obama because they “just referred to one individual specifically”?
white settlers
whut
Also I thought the joke originated from China
In the origin of the meme, by your logic, Obama was compared to a tiger.
Is Obama orange and striped with a white belly?
Tigger is very similar to a slur used against black people.
LoL that’s such a stretch.
Plus everyone knows Tiggers are marvelous chaps, and loaded with vim and vigor. Tiggers are wonderful things, and so, hardly an insult.
Ok, I never thought about the “yellow animal” angle, so thanks for bringing that up. I just always assumed he didn’t like the comparison because it was like insisting he was short and fat and since he didn’t like it, everyone sorta just ran with it as an insult. Meanwhile I was thinking “who the hell doesn’t like Winnie the Pooh? He shoulda embraced the comparison”
So yea, thanks for the extra info.
I’d say regular people in general don’t think that deeply about these things.
And though the skin theory sounds correct, i still think it’s about the short and fat part more. It affected his dignity and image, and as i understand it, the concept of ‘giving face’ is of great importance in chinese culture.
So in the same vein, all those monkey caricatures of Putin are also racist as well then.
I mean yeah, depicting people as monkeys is generally rooted pretty explicitly in racism, and even white eastern europeans have been subject to racism from western Europe. Read what Emma Goldman wrote about that “conniving slanty eyed Asian”(paraphrased) Stalin.
When have racist depictions of Eastern Europeans as monkeys been a thing?
White settlers? Some brief searching tells me the origin was from Indian social media and then taken for use by Chinese citizens who disagree with him.
If they told the truth, how could they make a post about being a victim of the evil “lefties?”
Nah, they got banned for being too leftie
Not sure why Winnie the poo is marked as racism when it specifically refers to one person and has nothing to do with that persons race
Not sure why rothschild conspiracies are marked as antisemitism when they specifically refer to one family and have nothing to do with that family’s judaism
Honestly seeking explanation because this is new to me and I’m afraid to Google it. What is “winnie” a dogwhistle for?
There’s too damn many conservative dogwhistles these days.
It’s from a South Park episode. It isn’t racist, or at least it wasn’t, Hong Kong protesters and Tiwan use it regularly. It’s just making fun of Xi Jinping as an individual.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_in_China
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/23/1165504942/winnie-the-pooh-xi-jinping-china-film
Oh the Winnie the Pooh comic thing. I laughed at that, but didn’t realize it was turning into a bigger thing. Got it.
nothing to do with that persons race
Oh, really? Comparing an Chinese man to a yellow skinned character has nothing to do with race?
Comparing a Chinese man who looks like Winnie the Pooh to Winnie the Pooh has nothing to do with his race yes.
Not sure why $oro$ is marked as racism when it specifically refers to one person and has “nothing to do” with that person’s race.
Really makes you think.
doesn’t look like that was what you were banned for
And calling the uhygur genocide bad is spreading nazi disinformation ? Hahahaha
I’m not going to look up the context, but if you’re randomly shouting “uhygur genocide” in a thread about UN voting to end US embargo on Cuba, US and Israel oppose, that specific type of whataboutism does sound suspicious like parroting nazi disinformation.
It’s spreading US disinfo, which might as well be the 4th Reich soooo yeah pretty much
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You see that’s kind of where the problem is. You can say there’s a genocide and I can say “where” and that gives me the vibe of a genocide denier. I’ve looked for evidence, I’ve asked for evidence, but the best I’ve ever gotten is a satellite image of some prison in China, some (AI padded) mugshots with no context, and some thorough browbeating by very serious liberals.
Let me put this another way. I’m of Jewish descent. My great aunt was in a camp. I’m not trying to “deny” any genocides, but what should my standard of evidence be? Particularly when there is a clear incentive for western media to create false narratives about their enemies, and have done so before?
If you have something to present that I haven’t seen, I and the other “tankies” are wide open to engage with it.
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how fervently the tankies deny genocides
wait did they deny the real ones or the made up ones?
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I’m still a proud leftist, but geez nothing has made me question that stance more than seeing how fervently the tankies deny genocides and defend aggressive warmongering—as long as the country perpetrating it is one that calls itself “communist”, or is a successor to one that used to call itself communist.
If that were true then we’d all be falling over ourselves to defend Pol Pot instead of calling him a shit and a CIA puppet and not wanting anything to do with him.
See also the most common opinion on Gonzalo (yes I know there are Gonzalites, haven’t seen them around here though).
Horseshoe theory only makes sense if you don’t think about it for even one second.
So, not surprised it makes total sense to you
Horseshoe theory doesn’t make sense. That’s the thing.
Until suddenly you start seeing people who call themselves leftists denying genocide. Which is something we usually think of as being a quality of the far-right.
(The obvious solution here, of course, is that these people who call themselves leftists…aren’t. Because if leftism is about equality, there’s nothing equal about subjecting a people and preventing the continuance of their culture.)
Ok, the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia committed genocide when they were nominally communist at the time. Is that good enough for you? It’s the most noteworthy example I can think of. Actually maybe the Shining Path too, in Peru. I never liked them or their methods.
The supposed genocide in Xinjiang is not at all the same thing. There’s no open warfare, rebellion, nothing to suggest what western nations are claiming is happening. The only evidence I’ve seen is that prisons exist in Xinjiang, and their prisons are much like prisons anywhere else on the world. All other evidence I’ve seen comes from one specific person, the deluded mind of Adrian Zenz. A man who cannot speak Chinese, has never lived in China, and he’s one guy.
boohoo wittle baby got mad people are on their left.
There’s a big difference between being upset at some difference in ideology and looking at people sincerely defending or denying a genocide in the name of that ideological difference.
Hm, so you’re saying that every political faction “denies genocide and defends aggressive warmongering”? Could it perhaps be that every faction gets accused at one point or another of genocide and aggressive warmongering, and it’s your responsibility as a political person to use your brain to figure out who is lying?
so you’re saying that every political faction “denies genocide and defends aggressive warmongering”?
No. Leftists who aren’t tankies don’t.
Except that I’m a Swiss socialist and that I’m taking my sources from very left wing ONG that I work with ?
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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
Oh wow. I honestly didn’t thought about that. I may be an ass sometime but… not like that :o !
no worries, thanks for being receptive
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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
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.”
There’s no racial component to it at all
That’s a pretty bold statement to make. Have you seen the west?
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.
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.
Yeah, the comments of yours in the modlog are rude but the mod is definitely reaching and banning you for dissent
You were banned for whataboutism. We take it extremely seriously.
Taken very seriously, and applied very selectively. That mod team loves to put their thumb on the scale.
So if someone say Christianism sucks because it’s a religion and I respond by saying all religions sucks, is that whataboutism ? Excuse me if I just think that it’s better to criticize everyone than a specific group of person…
sorry pal but all of your critiques are textbook whataboutism
sure idk
That’s not really whataboutism, but it is flawed logic to conclude all religions suck just because you think one does. Whataboutism would be more like responding with “But other religions suck even more!” as a defense for Christianity.
Not agreeing with the system of having nations is one thing, but you can’t just not believe they’re there
Nations doesn’t exist, states does. It’s different.
Nations are a sociological formation that objectively exist in the world. Even fucking fascists have better education than you, and not because their education is impressive.
Ah. World news again. The modlog really needs to show which mods are behind the wrong actions. That’s a good screenshot, shitty comments but untrue reasons. Even lemmy code of conduct says that to fix a mod action it should be taken with the mod in question.
I’ve gotten into arguments in this instance in WorldNews (if I recall) where I strongly disagreed with communists on something. Nobody ever banned me.
Keep up the good work, mods, and thanks for addressing someone’s ban complaint
There is no “lemmy”, every instance is unique. Just don’t waste your time with the fascist instances
There is a lemmyverse, or threadiverse if you prefer
Or, y’know, fediverse. The original term.
They’re not the same, threadiverse refers to the reddit-like part of the fediverse (lemmy and kbin for now) and there’s definite social barriers between it and other parts of the fediverse.
It’s pretty clear that they’re referring to the Lemmy.world World News community, though. Only in rare cases where there is more than one decently populated community named the same thing is being more specific needed.
OP link us to the comment where you merely mentioned Tiananmen square and got banned for it
Further down, but it seems it was more about mocking the president and saying that China and Russia were dictatorships. Maybe…
We’ve already seen the modlog and know you were banned for racism.
Which comment was racist ? 🤔
The ones where you called Xi a yellow animal. Also if you aren’t Asian shut the fuck up with “oh but it isnt racist”. I’m part Asian and that shit is racist.
I wasn’t saying that about the color… Asians aren’t even yellow… wtf is your stuff about saying Chinese are yellows ??? Is that an American thing ?
I have to admit I probably would have read yellow in that context to mean ‘cowardly’ rather than with racist connotations but I can see how it could be taken that way.
You’re free to check the modlog, rather than lying that you were “banned for mentioning Tiananmen Square”
Dude’s never been called yellow and it shows. Fuck off.
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Every single time I see these complaints about getting banned I look through the modlog and find them saying something racist or transphobic. This isn’t an exception.
They said “xinnie the pooh” you absolute hotdog.
Yeah, blatant racism. You are aware that’s a nazi meme, right?
Troll elsewhere, please. Lemmy users will believe you’re sincere.
Yikes, dude. “You’re trolling” is not a good look to be telling someone calling out racism. It makes you look like a nazi.
Nope, it’s not.
Thank you for that wonderful insult, I need to work “You absolute Hotdog” into my vocabulary! xD
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Your username is referencing a fascist book
Enders game? How so? I read it as a critique of the brutal preemptive lengths a humanity first government will go to out of fear, not an embracing of it.
The author is a fascist
Is there anything in the text? Seems like that would be needed for it to be a fascist book.
You think Xi the Pooh is racist?
They are from Hexbear, so they are just butthurt about Xi being insulted.
I checked and you weren’t banned for mentioning Tienanmen square, no one cared. You were temp banned (30 days) for using racist language, holocaust denial, and promoting the Uigur concentration camp conspiracy theory and lying about what your sources are.
Nope. It was about mocking the Chinease president, saying that Russia and China were dictatorships and yes calling the Uigur genocide, without denying any other genocides… you’re the one that deny it and lying like a politician or a government drone. You don’t have any idea what my sources are. That’s pathetic…
You going to provide any sources? Are those sources going to be tied to Adrian Zenz?
Are those sources going to be tied to Adrian Zenz?
Narrator: they were
So… relying on Zenz, RFA, or Amnesty international, known for the famous “saddam is killing babies in incubators” lie to support a US campaign of genocide.
Huh.
Can you find any reports of an increase in terrorism in the area? Groups being discriminated against so heavily will always resort to violent self defense.
Can you find any reports of mass refugees? Groups being targeted by genocide always try to flee to other places where they won’t be targeted.
Oh Okay sorry China is a country ruled by nice friendly people that loves freedom of speech, culture, people. You should go live there. Also Putin is as nice as a koala and just want to save babies. You can go back to sleep. Thank you for enlighting me.
You know, China can have problems without being comically evil, right?
I have friends who immigrated from China or live here part time, it is just a normal country. Maybe free-er and more democratic in some ways than here, and worse in some other aspects.
Not anything that they said, but go off.
Your racism is showing.
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✅ casual homophobia
✅ owns a gender-affirming vehicle
✅ accusing other people of being like Trump
✅ ‘canadian’
to be frank I don’t really trust your ability to assess the truth of anything
Can you find any reports of an increase in terrorism in the area? Groups being discriminated against so heavily will always resort to violent self defense.
Can you find any reports of mass refugees? Groups being targeted by genocide always try to flee to other places where they won’t be targeted.
The moment liberals face any push back on their accusations, out come the homophobic insults.
So you weren’t banned for “mentioning Tiananmen Square.” You were just lying about that.
Where did they deny the Holocaust? The comment that got removed for ‘spreading nazi misinfo’ seems to be them calling the modern Russian and Chinese states dictatorships that are engaging in genocide.
Whoaaaa. Wait, do people on Lemmy think Ugiar thing is a conspiracy? That’s like election result denial level of brain wash
Palestine and Yemen don’t believe it either, after sending delegations. You know, two Muslim majority countries that are experiencing genocide.
Would you be surprised to find out there weren’t WMDs either? If you want an extensive set of answers, I’d recommend using the search feature, but secondarily there are many different “askX” comms to source it from
If you’re so knowledgeable about the situation that you can be so certain that it’s happening that you consider doubt invalid, why don’t you know how to spell Uyghur?
Just the tankies, but there’s plenty of those in .ml
You have access to Reddit backend? I am curious if you can see why I was banned, as I have an idea but they deleted my comment and said I was banned from it /r/MuuaadDib is my account. Just curious, if not no big I was on there for a long time to be banned for such a silly reason. Cheers! To be honest this smaller community seems a little better thus far.
You can’t for reddit, but for Lemmy it is all public
It’s public on Lemmy. I get the vibe OP didn’t know lol…
I’ll ignore the fact that you’re lying about what got you banned for this response.
Even the western far right media has moved on from the original Tiananmen narrative, which it acknowledges was false. The actual events played out more accurately to exactly what China has always said they were.
The only people still pushing the original shit are anticommunists and racists because it’s more convenient to their goals to perpetuate it.
Try actually listening and learning the actual facts from people in the left and then you won’t run into this problem. You’re getting banned and ridiculed by actual leftists because you’re further right and less educated on this topic than the fucking media of far right conservative tories ffs.
This is what happens when you get your political education from fucking reddit.
Learn properly: https://archive.ph/24zzF
This is a bad argument, the telegraph reports something that someone said based on incomplete information at the time and suddenly their take is worth something because it agrees with your own views?
The telegraph reports on the leaked cables from wikileaks which confirm that diplomats had no reason to believe a massacre was happening, if you’re going to debatelord at least pretend you finished reading.
'even tory shitheads have given up on this line, why are ‘leftists’ pushing it?
Why would anyone give a shit what tories value or dont value? They dont trade in facts.
the british conservative party, famous fans of the Communist Party of China, who are well known for pushing pro-china news stories
It doesnt matter if theyre pro or anti anything. They just dont deal in fact.
They dont stop pushing a narrative because it turned out to be false, they stop if they think it wont bring immediate monetary gains.
What the tories talk about is a measure of what the current grift is for quick cash, not what stories are factual or inaccurate.
The fact that the Tories are reporting on it doesn’t make it a measure of if it’s true or not- they’re reporting on something from wikileaks which directly contradicts the entire western narrative. They’re certainly not doing it because it’s ideologically consistent with their goals.
Media and news reporting is going to be heavily filtered by what advertisers will tolerate- which isn’t necessarily going to be factual or accurate either.
None of that matters if its from the mouth of a tory, dude
If a tory is speaking, it is to trick you into giving them money. You cannot say “this has to be true/false, because the tories said …”
If a tory said it, it was a ploy for cash. Nothing to do with anyone elses ideologies or goals, or reality.
You’re just embarrassing.
See this is just a complete refusal to engage with the topic or learn anything. Have you grown as a human being at all in the last 10 years or did you just decide one day that you have achieved political nirvana and there is never anything else you need to understand or expand your knowledge of? Your refusal to actually learn anything is a deep character flaw and a huge personal failure.
Oh hai
That’s the difference with you. I learn in universities, reading reports and works. Not on echo chambers on the web. I just like to argue with people on the internet in a language I don’t master while I’m in the train.
Unlike you I actually have 2 degrees. If you engaged with this topic in this way in a university the history professor would fail you.
You don’t give a fuck about sources, evidence, or anything. You are utterly closed to new information. You are one of the most deeply propagandised people on the planet, from the most deeply propagandised population on the planet.
How the fuck are the sources they used “echo chambers on the Web?”
What are your sources then? Or are you just trying to invoke the idea of being so well read to cover up the fact you’re full of shit.
These are literally reports, what the fuck are you on about?
what’s a “primary source”?
Literally the US Army has published videos that claim they were involved in the Tiananmen protests.
Source is hexbear, opinion ignored
Wall Street Journal, a notorious Hexbear front to push sissypee lies
Except your source is some site named worldaffairs.blog
Let’s just look that up… yep about what I expected, conspiracy drivel
she also cited and linked to all the original sources which the worldaffairs site used, packed full of famous CCP-shill state-owned-media sources like: the BBC, Reuters, the Washington Post, CBS, the Wall Street Journal, etcetera
You all must be the biggest fucking rubes on the planet if you’re seriously citing a site which claims that CNN has a left wing bias
How do you function? Do you just lose money on scams 24/7? (donating to your political parties counts)
I have a lot of issues with sources I know are right wing because they often spin things in ridiculous ways. Despite that, there’s so much censorship on the internet the only places to look are on the fringes or in other languages.
Would it make you feel better if I cited a blog that takes lines from other sources out of context to change the message?
It’s literally quoting WSJ. Some liberal thinktank complaining about it is not relevant, even less so a think tank so vapid as to tacitly equate centrism with objectivity.
I’ve had my problems with hexbear but you’re literally doing the meme of going 👉😩👈 LALALALALA when someone actually backs up their claims with sources. Like why even bother asking for sources if you’re just going to dismiss them as “bad” no matter the quality?
His sources ARE bad, is the issue. Conspiracy blogs is not what I would call worth reading lmao
Only shitty source I saw was wikileaks.
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lol you casually make racist “winnie the pooh” jokes like any random right winger.
How is comparing xi to a ww2 British stuffed animal racist?
Is Obama a stuffed tiger?
Hong Kong is relatively the same ethnicity as China, right? And they were using Xi the Pooh memes? I don’t think it’s racist.
I think ultimately your problem is that ideas that were normalized to you on
just don’t hold up to scrutiny, and even the academic neoliberal consensus on most of these issues is different from what predditors treat as self-evident. Enculturation is like that, and I wish you a speedy recovery.predditors
Or that I’m not influenced by extremist narrative one side or the other.
Congratulations then, you’re the pinnacle of humanity, unburdened with living among ideology like the rest of us sloppy piggies.
Don’t you have it when you have to exist in a context?
Nah that’s my job.
What job is that?
You are not immune to propaganda
You very clearly are.
What actually is that Stormfront reddit thing?
It’s an emoji, they have a lot of them on hexbear
the joke is that stormfront was (is) an infamous white supremacist board and your average reddit commentor is basically indistinguishable from that
Thanks!
Apparently the problem with a state putting down a popular protest through overwhelming force and censoring all coverage or discussion of the event is that acknowledging atrocities is wrongthink.
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Looking at the modlog (which is public info, you just have to log on to the web ui and scroll down to the bottom).
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@Starshader@lemmy.ml from the community World News@lemmy.ml reason: Racism expires: in 27 days
This thread is fucking hilarious great job everybody
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You got to be a leftiest to be in a leftiest place, and you’re clearly just a reactionary.
none of their posts make them appear like a reactionary, just this one winnie the pooh thing that only hexbear has decided makes you definitely a right winger.
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The joke is the dictator man looks like Winnie the Pooh (but more importantly is offended by it). The fact Winnie the Pooh is yellow is incidental but unfortunately makes the joke appetising to racists too. It doesn’t mean everyone that jokes about Xi Jinping being Winnie the Pooh means everyone is using it as a racist stand-in.
Before someone points out that it started as a racist meme - if that is true (which I have no idea), it doesn’t change much. Most people making the joke are oblivious to the racism element.
Now, it’s a perfectly valid point to make about it being a racist charicature. The trouble is most people don’t separate the nuance with “Criticise & laugh at the dictator man all you like, just please don’t propogate a racist stereotype.” and so instead it looks like they’re just defending a dictator.
And… well, I don’t really need to explain why people defending dictators are going to get ignored, do I?
Tell me why he looks like Winnie The Pooh without saying it’s his eyes and skin. It’s entirely impossible to defend the racist caricature because Winnie The Pooh has like 4 distinguishing features and half of them are applied only because the man is Chinese. There are no deep insights to be found in a 2D character. Winnie The Pooh doesn’t have the same amount of forehead wrinkles, he doesn’t have the same curve on his nose, his ears aren’t even similar. So what features of Winnie The Pooh makes you believe he looks like Xi Jinping?
Ok, it really sounds like you are stuck in the skin color as an easy way to say it is racist but like… He kinda looks similar
Like it’s not hard to see where people are pulling it from, sure it’s meant to be inflammatory and hurtful but you have a somewhat heavy set man with big chubby cheeks and tiny lips, a buttony nose that almost looks like Winnie the Pooh’s upside down if it was flesh toned. His pupils are incredibly dark but small giving the same sort of small eyes underneath curving eyebrows.
And to wrap it all together Xi wears high wasted pants trying to cover his pot belly that almost looks like he is wearing a short shirt that puts it on display. They do look like… Just a little alike. Like Elijah wood and Daniel Radcliffe, they don’t really look alike but also it’s not hard to see why people put the 2 together. Especially with the right photo or look.Is it meant to be a bit insulting to compare him to a pantless stuffed bear… Yeah. Duh. But dude Winnie the Pooh is adorable and if he leaned into that he could have been seen as a sweet softie instead of a guy who’s will jail people for saying it.
