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Susaga@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• iie@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  when a majority white community mocks a chinese man by comparing his appearance to a yellow bear, it’s a little weird

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  • Susaga@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The comparisons were first made in China, actually. The only reason we even know about the comparison is because he got so offended by them, and we keep doing it because he’s upset by it. It’s more about shape than colour, especially since Xi Jinping tends to wear trousers.

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    • Bakzik@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hello Susaga! I’m going to repost a comment I made a few hours ago, in this instance:

      "Things can undergo a transformation, just because the original usage might have been innocent. If something starts being used by white racists or western imperialists in a racist way, would ya look at that, it’s racist.

      Also, it’s covert racism. It gives people plausible deniability. Like you are doing now.

      And there are historical precedents of this kind of racism: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril"

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      • blazera@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Could you demonstrate that transformation with other examples from here? Other asian people being compared to other yellow characters? Or has it remained specifically one person compared to one character?

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  • blazera@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are bears a common racist stereotype for asians? I havent seen it

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    • harmonea@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It's specific to Xi Jinping. Chinese memelords started it in ~2013, and he was so offended by it that the Streisand Effect kicked in.

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• PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Okay putting you down as being okay with it. Got it ty

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  • Susaga@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m okay with it because it’s not racist. What is there in this picture to not be okay with?

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    • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The racism

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      • Susaga@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What racism? You have yet to explain what’s racist about this picture. I am willing to accept that I’m wrong and I’m just not seeing it from the right perspective, but you have to be willing to explain why rather than just condemn.

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• MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • bloopernova@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not even someone they like, they just use it for easy trolling just like in this thread.

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    • FunkyStuff@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      he’s literally in my dm’s right now laughing at you

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    • MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Image

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      • Bakzik@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Love to see you still seething, nazi tito-laugh

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