• OneWomanCreamTeam
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    2 days ago

    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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      I’ve absolutely seen shitstains find out someone is Chinese then start posting or replying to them with Winnie the Pooh content or memes. I bet the original joke was meant to be specific, but when I see people use it in response to someone talking about China or being Chinese in general, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

      Like, Pepe the frog wasn’t intended to be an image associated with bigotry and the artist themselves has denounced it full-throatedly. That doesn’t mean it isn’t used as a dog whistle for racists.

      Shitty people are gonna be shitty, I realize, but I think broad sweeping generalizations in either direction aren’t useful.

    • Sop@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      The yellow skin is the racist trope. And there might be other tropes there that I’m personally not aware of.