Saying āThis isnāt racist because it is based off of a similar meme that originated in Chinaā has big āI canāt be racist when I say the N-word because I have a black friend.ā energy.
Itās less that and more āohh, itās fine when they say it, but when I say it, itās racistā which isnāt reasonable in the first place for the n-word, but doubly so in this case since we know thereās a lot of racism going around in the HK independence āmovement.ā
Daily reminder HKs minimum wage is 1 dollar for servants and 5 dollars per hour for workers, they have the highest rent in the entire world yet some of the worst living conditions and historically have only had 49% of there parliment able to be elected, the other 51% is 8 western buisnessmen.
HK separtists advocate for the above because they are the lucky enough ones to be above the slave class and they want this relationship to continue, and for things to remain the same rather than for things to get better via intergation with china, which would give the HK working and underclass access to cheap housing via mainland China, who have 90% house ownership rate vs HKs like 17%.
Source;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_domestic_helpers_in_Hong_Kong
I challenged this notion with a lib the other day.
The watermelon originated in Africa. That doesnāt mean that the vile caricaturised depictions of black people eating watermelons is somehow not inherently racist.
You can also look to the origin and continuing usage of the swastika, especially in Asian cultures, as another example here - you arenāt going to tell me that the right-angled unicode swastika being used by westerners on the internet isnāt done in service of fascism 99% of the time.
And on that matter, donāt let erm-ackshually dorks tell you that the 90 degree swastika wasnāt used by Nazis and isnāt representative of them. One of the most famous depictions of the Nazi swastika is a right angled one:
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1214749781387436032/pu/vid/450x360/o0Nxlts0lffM8lUv.mp4
The libs downvoting this post en masse š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£
Iām on hexbear so I canāt see the downvotes lmao š¤£
I just see the overall score
This is why disabling downvotes is good. Make those cowards show themselves.
Racists who know enough not to talk openly shouldnāt be able to passively influence discussion either.
No, no guys, itās cause Xi doesnāt wear pants and east honey all the time. SMH tankies make everything about race. Theyāll even get angry when you compare the Asians to yellow charecters. Woke or go broke, ya know
for background info, the chinese government does not ban the actual associate of winnie pooh to xin unless it is used to promote racism contrary to the claim by the red fascist tankiejerkers, liberal sloganists, and the NATO-backed hong kong rioters by young students who never know about the period before the return of hong kong to chinese rule. The liberal sloganists justify the racist act on the claim that it is directed towards an oppressive dictator, but they cannot explain why they attack a ātyrantā for their chinese ethnicity and appearance instead of their morality. For more suspicions, the winnie pooh association of Xi Ping in chinese hate crime propaganda are from people who contradict their hong kong independence slogan with return to british colonial rule and who believe that british immigrants are the only true āhong kongersā.
These colonial worshipping kids have been kneeling so long that theyāve forgotten how to stand.
Their beloved āprime ministerā Churchill has quotes that wouldnāt feel out of place in Hitlerās collection:
āI hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religionā
[the Pashuns] needs to ārecognise the superiority of raceā
āI hate people with slit eyes and pigtails. I donāt like the look of them or the smell of them ā but I suppose it does no great harm to have a look at them.ā
We shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate themā¦ as civilised nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations. I believe in the ultimate partition of ChinaāI mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.
The last one still rings true with the ājust the government not the peopleā libs nowadays.
The last one is utterly jaw-dropping, not necessarily because Iām surprised Churchill said it, but how this sentiment has hardly suffered a dent in the contemporary āwesternā zeitgeist.
Replace a few words, trade āAryanā for āEuropeanā, ācivilizedā for ādevelopedā, and ābarbaricā for āauthoritarianāā¦ boom, youāve got a chart-topping WaPo OpEd.
itās also pure 100% undiluted projection.
nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations
the west is the one thatās done all that and keeps doing it.
Itās the same as those homophobic memes of Putin in makeup or kissing Trump, ābigotry is fine if itās used against someone I donāt likeā
Exactly. Sometimes people will defend it with some supposed high-minded origin, like āitās not saying being gay is wrong, itās using trumpās homophobia and insecurity against him and turning it into a vulnerability that weāre using to trigger himā. And maybe some of the people repeating it actually believe that, but the images donāt come with a paragraph explaining the nuance. Theyāre just supposed to be an easy shot at trump, youāre supposed to laugh and keep scrolling. Most people liking or sharing them arenāt thinking about it any more than āhaha, heās owned cause heās gayā.
You can spend all day convincing yourself that your specific way of thinking about it isnāt racist/homophobic, but when you share this shit online all that stuff stays in your head, and youāre just spreading bigotry.
Yeah, and even if they genuinely believe it, the message is still āgay = badā. They are either telling on their internalized bigotry or willfully ignoring the hurt it causes to the actual victims of that bigotry
And the same libs are the first to cry āreverse racismā when they hear even the slightest criticism of whiteness
also depicting Xi Jinping as Winnie the Pooh isnāt banned in China because it personally offended him and heās like a petty tyrant king. Itās because misrepresenting the government is illegal and they take that seriously. Maybe from my stupid western perspective itās going a little too far, but also China wouldnāt tolerate something like a Qanon movement, or orther wild ass conspiracy theories, so at least they have that going on.
How is a meme āmisrepresenting the governmentā is someone going to look at the picture and think āyes, thatās clearly literal, China is run by a anthropomorphic teddy bear from literatureā.
itās a blanket ban on anything that could be considered defamation or caricature of government officials. Like I said I actually think itās going too far, but I get the idea. Itās to stop conspiracy theories and wild rumors before they start. Like I donāt know, a person doesnāt have to believe itās literal. A confused person could come to any weird conclusions like that Xi Jinping works for Disney or that he played Winnie the Pooh in a movie. I donāt know the exact argument but it otherwise tracks with the ban on misrepresentation. Take it up with the Chinese state, not me, but it seems like something very minor to even care about. āI canāt call the president a cartoon bearā yeah ok do something else with your time then, who gives a shit
The āXi got butthurt and banned all of Winnie the Pooh in Chinaā thing is mind numbingly easy to disprove. Just search the phrase on literally any Chinese internet service. If they still spout that claim, theyāve obviously not done even one minute of research or fact checking and are so clearly just blindly regurgitating propaganda (which they also accuse people who support China of doing, funny how that works) that all of their opinions on China can be safely ignored.
You know what I did when I first heard that claim? I went straight to Baidu and searched up Winnie the Pooh, in English even, and surprise surprise it returned results like any other search engine. And this was when I was still a liberal who didnāt like China.
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āYeah guys Iām totally not racist, I just think those dirty yellow ching-chongs are ugly and inferior to our superior white race and we should nuke all those subhumans to make way for more lebensraum for the white race !1!!1111!!1!111ā
Anti-Asian Racism
A liberal once made an anti-CPC song with the lyrics āThey say ching chang chong and oppress Hong Kongā
Reminds me of a popular kindergarten birthday song in The Netherlands where you squint your eyes with your fingers and sing āHankipanki Shanghai, Hankipanki Shanghai, Hankipanki Hankipanki, Hankipanki Shanghaiā to the tune of Happy Birthday To You.
Itās not done anymore in most schools these days AFAIK but only since recently
