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ill give you a hint one of these was widely condemned by Americans across the political spectrum as racist. and the other is considered totally fine.
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ill give you a hint one of these was widely condemned by Americans across the political spectrum as racist. and the other is considered totally fine.
Famously, when you are trying to do racist asian caricatures, you make the eyes more circular.
Love y’all, but I really think the claim that this meme is racist is a huge stretch.
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Humiliation and ridiculous caricature are not tactics unique to white racists. That’s more reaching.
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The meme being used by and useful to anti-communists in general and anti-Xi people in particular doesn’t make it racist.
I’m not saying people should use it (mostly because I think it’s cringe), but I also don’t think it’s racist and calling people who use it racist instead of just cringe looks unserious.
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Calling people cringe isn’t avoiding confrontation. It’s just a much more reasonable stance to take than “meme invented by Chinese netizens is actually racist as soon as white people touch it and is also a nefarious plot by neo-nazis to normalize racism because it’s making a non-white person look ridiculous”.
I’m not saying avoid confrontation to ease tension, I’m saying that the easier dunk is “you are posting a picture of a world leader photoshopped to look like a children’s book character and expecting it to bring about regime change”.
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It would, if that particular criticism had a leg to stand on.
No idea why admins locked whatever thread you’re talking about, but it’s probably because it was nothing but Hexbears screaming “debate me”.
Buddy, we’re not stomping out anything. Our actions on Hexbear and Lemmy have no effect on anything. Just like the people posting “Xinnie the Pooh Tianmen Square vuvuzela iPhone”.
I don’t think this is true at all
It was sarcasm.