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Cake day: October 4th, 2024
  • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Muh Freeze Peach
    4 minutes

    I said “again” as in I had seen it before and you gave me a chance to revisit it and confirm I’m correct.

    No, that would be “I’ve read the wiki page again, thanks for linking it” or even “Thanks for linking it, I read it again but I’ve read it before.” You wrote “I’ve read the wiki page, but thanks for linking it again.” Given your bad faith argument tactics elsewhere I don’t know if I’m helping you learn English or smacking you across the face with your bad faith, but take it in the spirit that you deserve.

    Statesians are also wildly racist, and usually combine the two.

    No. People in the US are, on average, much less racist than most corners of the world, especially including your precious China - notoriously xenophobic and currently in the process of purging their least favorite minorities like the Uighurs.

    Orientalism runs deep, and as such depictions of Eastern socialism usually involve deep degrees of racial caricature. Other vile memes involve depicting Chinese people as “bugmen” and as a “hive-mind,” which combines racist views of Asians with anti-communism.

    All true and all irrelevant to your accusation of Xinnie the Pooh being a racist meme.

    I’m sure you know this, you’re just refusing to see it because it’s uncomfortable to admit after you defended a racist caricature.

    Again: I see it just fine, it’s just not relevant to this discussion.

    If I said: You are currently being racist against black people because minstrel shows, lynchings, segregation, etc. exist(ed), does that make any sense? Would accusing you of “refusing to see them” because you didn’t proactively come out against them make any sense? Of course not.

    If you just learned about why Chinese people view the meme as racist, why not just change your views?

    I already told you my view changed to a new, more factual position. I’m simply not leaping to the BS that you’re trying so hard to push.

  • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Muh Freeze Peach
    10 minutes

    You sound like you have the privilege of being white and not having to deal with racism.

    I’m definitely not Asian so I definitely have the privilege of forgetting that for a lot of people yellow = Asian and Asian = yellow, that’s true.

    Being anti-communist and being racist tend to have much overlap.

    No, but it totally tracks that you’re pushing tankie propaganda with what looks like a Mandarin username from @lemmy.ml

    I have been racially abused and heard more orientalist nonsense then you could even imagine during my brief stint on Reddit and from many people from anti-communist instances such as the one you post from.

    I believe it, and that’s tragic, but it doesn’t logically follow that because some people are racist against Asians, Xinnie the Pooh must therefore be a racist meme. Again, you guys are stretching to fit your narrative.

  • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Muh Freeze Peach
    47 minutes

    Strange that you say I “linked it again” considering I linked it one time. Anyway,

    Americans/westerners love shitting on communism; it’s generally not a racism issue. I think you know that, but you’re again doing tankie mental gymnastics to defend Xi Jinping/the CCP.

    Is it possible some people use it for racist reasons? Absolutely.

    I just don’t think it’s that deep for the vast majority of people who use the meme. I certainly wouldn’t go so far as to say the use of it at all is inherently racist as you did and continue to do.

    Signed,

    Someone who thinks the meme is funny because it pisses off tankies and literally never made the potential racism connection that Winnie the Pooh had yellow fur until today.

  • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Muh Freeze Peach
    2 hours

    Unfortunately most Americans are in an “it’s not worth it to personally sacrifice to fight fascism until it undeniably resembles Germany in the 1940s” state of laziness/apathy/cowardice/caution/self-interest.

    Even those of us who are sounding the alarm bells are generally only doing that - sounding alarm bells hoping for someone else to do something.