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Diva@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

the Winnie the Pooh comments are racist though, it’s not hard to have substantive critiques of China without constantly falling back on trying to equate the president with a yellow cartoon animal. We don’t have to get into it, but they almost always hand out temp bans for that. For example yours is already expired.

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lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

the Winnie the Pooh comments are racist though

That’s a strange assumption to make. “Because it’s forbidden in China” is a sufficient explanation of why people do this. For the exact same reason people will forever keep bringing up the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

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shaserlark@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Ah I love the modlog, convenient that I can see again what happened.

The whole Winnie thing became forbidden in China partly because the meme went super viral on Weibo and they didn’t want people in China to ridicule the supreme leader. Ban me for trolling the mod by equating them to Xi Jinping, I’m fine with that. I will think you should have a thicker skin but whatever. Using racism as a reason to ban me in this context is just censorship.

To provide the context for those too lazy to check the modlog, the comment I’m answering to is straight genocide denial. The Uyghurs are being held in concentration camps, sterilized and their language, religion, and heritage are being wiped out and .ml mods are denying that because it doesn’t fit in their world view.

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- Diva@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m aware of where the meme came from, personally I think it’s bad taste to be yapping about uguhurs in a thread about the Gaza genocide.
  
  If people were gleefully calling Obama “Tigger” after that, and constantly doing that instead of having a real argument or something to say I think that would start resulting in bans for racism too.
  
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  - shaserlark@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    They can call Obama a piece of shit as far as I’m concerned.
    
    The mod was kinda right to remove the comment before that because that user is some Hasbara shill and was mentioning the Uyghurs as a deflection.
    
    My issue isn’t with that, my issue is with the formulation “the Uyghur genocide narrative“. That’s literally the same shit that liberal media is saying about Gaza. So that’s what I mean, I’ll always be “yapping“ about the Uyghur genocide the same way I’m “yapping“ about the Ukraine & Gaza genocide. I don’t care who does it, it’s wrong.
    
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    Diva@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    They can call Obama a piece of shit as far as I’m concerned.
    
    The issue is the application of a thinly veiled racist caricature though. Call Xi a dictator, piece of shit, whatever, but evidence it and don’t rely on racist tropes and I doubt you will catch a ban for it.
    
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