Hey, new federated user from Hexbear here

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• PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just going to sum up the responses thus far

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  • Bakzik@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    michael-laugh Keep up the good work, Foucaults!

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    • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Iit ain’t easy, but it’s an honest days work

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• Susaga@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sorry, I’m not quite sure how a picture mocking a specific person for something other than race is racist, let alone deeply so.

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  • 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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    • blazera@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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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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  • MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    [deleted]

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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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• PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also someone please tell this smuglord that his instance isn’t federated with ours and we can’t see or respond to his comments, lol

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• blazera@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The only times ive seen hexbear users show up is disingenuous trolling like this.

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  • Silverseren@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hence why they should be defederated from. The entire instance is just full of trolls and dictatorship defenders.

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• happybadger@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  were fired

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• variants@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah I guess it is racist to say a singular person defines an entire race, you should maybe try not being so racist

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  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess it would be weird to say that. Maybe you could show where I did in fact say that. In the meantime, I’ll put you down on the pro-racism side

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• sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For context, the joke is that the authoritarian dictator of china has outlawed depictions of whiney the poo after chinease people started saying he looked like the character.

  You can go to jail for wearing a poo bear t-shirt. A children’s cartoon is now an icon of resistance, which is wild.

  This is no different than that LGBT Putin image that’ll get you put in jail in russia.

  The yellow skin is, in my opinion, kinda fucked though. I know that the vast majority of people on here using it don’t mean it that way but the effect would be kept while not changing the skin colour. The ears and red shirt are enough. Again though, the people using it are not necessarily racist for doing so.

  To pre-empt the enevitable user entirely disinterested in conversation trying to epicly own me as has been the entire post from OP, yes, I’m entirely ok with this. You can ‘mark me down’ as whatever you wish.

  For the hexbear users (or others) who want a conversation, out of curiosity, does your issue extend to the existance of this community on our platform?

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  • iridaniotter@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    china has outlawed depictions of whiney the poo

    shanghaidisneyresort.com/…/characters-meet-pooh/

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    • FunkyStuff@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s actually a mislabeled image of Grinny the Goo, an unrelated character.

      also thought of Winnie the Pooh with Chinese Characteristics

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  • booty@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    the joke is that the authoritarian dictator of china has outlawed depictions of whiney the poo after chinease people started saying he looked like the character.

    Wow, that is a joke. It’s not a very good joke. Who came up with it?

    (That literally never happened)

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    • blazera@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Xi Jinping did https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855

      Also if this is about asian racism why is japans prime minister not represented by a yellow character?

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  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    yes, I’m entirely ok with this. You can ‘mark me down’ as whatever you wish.

    Very well. I’ll put you down as neutral on racism due to the nuanced take on the issue in your post

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• mah@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Damn, didn’t expect to put a fellow Hexbear down on the pro-racism side but I guess thems the breaks

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    • ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      12 day old acct

      “hello fellow hexbears”

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• sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  "this guy looks like this cartoon character" isn't racist.

  Mitch McConnell looks and sounds like droopy dog, that's not racist either.

  • PrettyBlackDress@lemdit.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    🤣

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• skulblaka@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ah, I see. So it's now considered "racist" to... checks notes have the ability to publicly disagree with the leader of your nation without risking imprisonment or execution.

  Yeah, okay.

  Try harder, and next time, try with less taste of boot. Authoritarians and their enablers are not welcome here.

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• Sami@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Didn’t the meme originate from Chinese social media lol? A bit of a reach

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  • Bakzik@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reposting this one again:

    "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

      Also reposting

      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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• sadreality@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We censoring political cartoons now?

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• MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Okay, I’ll put you down for the pro-racism side. Noting here that being anti-communist is more important than being anti-racist

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  • Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    being pro racism to own the evil stankies

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• Jaysyn@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bears aren't a race.

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• PrettyBlackDress@lemdit.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hey hey hey look who we have here! Where’s the party at my man? What drama are we getting into tonight?

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