Comment on GG Bond is the new Pooh

holo@lemmy.wtf ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That was always contrived and you know it.

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  • holo@lemmy.wtf ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You people were literally using a yellow small eyes character to represent an Asian man you disliked.

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    • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      knowyourmeme.com/…/xi-jinping-winnie-the-pooh-com…

      About Xi Jinping Winnie the Pooh Comparisons refer to memes comparing the Chinese President and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping to the Disney character Winnie the Pooh. Originally spread by Internet users in China to mock the president, the meme saw wider recognition among the Western users after Winnie the Pooh was blacklisted by the Chinese censorship authorities in July 2017, which produced the Streisand Effect.

      Origin On June 8th, 2013, the Chinese President Xi Jinping and the United States President Barack Obama met at The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California, with a photograph of them walking together and smiling made by an unknown photographer (shown below, left).[1] Before June 10th, 2013, Chinese social network Weibo user badtuzizi made a meme in which the two presidents were compared to an image of the Disney characters Winnie the Pooh and Tigger walking in a similar fashion (shown below, right). The Winnie the Pooh and Tigger artwork was drawn specifically for the meme.[2]

      It didn’t even start in “the West” it started in China and only caught on here after China censored it lmao

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      • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He probably can’t see your comment, it’ll get filtered by his countries firewall 😅

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    • gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You people?

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    • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lmao you’re a fool. The meme was started by Chinese people you racist.

      Just out here projecting your own racism into other situations because you’re the one who sees Pooh bear and thinks “that looks like one of those yellow squinty eyed people I see in China”.

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      • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Do you remember the precursor to hydrohomies? It didn’t start as being racist, in fact it originally was a meme. It constantly got misinterpreted as racist because it was stripped of context. If something is constantly being misinterpreted as racist, then perhaps it’s just bad symbolism and needs to be changed.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You people

      Lmao

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• quinceyBones@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tankie lies and racism like usual.

  1. The meme was invented in China, by the Chinese.

  2. It only refers to Xi. By you trying to say it reflects all Chinese, you are being racist by assuming it reflects Chinese people.

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• Akuji@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honestly, that’s the goal. I had a brief exchange with resident marxist preacher, the one and only @Cowbee about Pooh, followed what’s been said in other threads, and concluded that, if it can be that easily interpreted as racist, the symbol needs to be changed.
  I’m not getting my hopes too high, but if I could contribute to trigger something about that…

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  • quinceyBones@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I interpreted your post as racist, please change it.

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    • Akuji@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Report it then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Community rule 1 is there for something.

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  • spencerwi@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My interactions with that user have led me to believe that they’re less Marxist and more just pro-CCP. As Stalin demonstrated pretty clearly, there’s a difference between being the dictator of a nominally-communist country (or a fanboy of said dictator) and being an actual Marxist.

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