• Sop@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    The meme, as used by westerners, is a racist caricature regardless of its origin. Jewish people also used to make caricatures about themselves as inside joke, nazi’s appropriating those caricatures was and is still racist regardless of the origin of the caricatures.

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      5 months ago

      Sorry but goverment leaders are not a protected class, regardless of their ethnicity. The pooh meme is not about the Chinese, but specifically about Xi.

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        5 months ago

        That’s irrelevant. If a nonjewish person draws a antisemitic caricature of Netanyahu it’s still racist and offensive to all jewish people.

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          Yeah, because antisemitism is a form of racism. But you could still draw a characture of him without relying on racist tropes.

          I’ve never once seen Chinese people in general compared to Winnie the Pooh. Just Xi personally. Are you trying to argue that making a characture of a person in a different ethnic group from you is automatically racist?

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        5 months ago

        Nowhere did I state that. In the context that white people have a history of dehumanising Chinese people through yellow caricatures it is pretty suspect that white people are jumping at the chance to joke about a Chinese person looking like a yellow bear, often while they repeat US state propaganda about China.