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
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”.
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.
holo@lemmy.wtf 4 weeks ago
You people were literally using a yellow small eyes character to represent an Asian man you disliked.
cm0002@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
knowyourmeme.com/…/xi-jinping-winnie-the-pooh-com…
It didn’t even start in “the West” it started in China and only caught on here after China censored it lmao
Venator@lemmy.nz 4 weeks ago
He probably can’t see your comment, it’ll get filtered by his countries firewall 😅
gibmiser@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You people?
Donkter@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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”.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
quinceyBones@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Except no one thinks it’s racist or interprets it as racism.
This is tankies abusing false racism claims to try and downplay Mickey of the piece of shit Xi Jinping.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Lmao