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Actionschnils@feddit.org 4 days agoYeah, its all a interpretation. But the picture is either playing with this assumptions or is at least tolerating them. If you want to do this joke without this … stale aftertaste(?), you have to set frame different
Jyek@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
You’re the only one thinking the joke is about Asians. Which makes you the racist. That’s what I’m saying. The joke is about family owned restaurants and you could have it be any family of any race. You’re the one focusing so hard on their race. You’re the one with the issue with the race in this picture.
Read: you have a problem with the fact that there is an again child in this photo and would rather it be a non-Asian.
Do you see the problem with that?
Actionschnils@feddit.org 2 days ago
First of all: My main issue was the photographing of a kid without obvious consent. The racism, as I said in the first post, is only the “garnishment.”
But still, its there. On a sub line. And Im willing to believe that the author isnt aware of the possibilty to interpret it this way. Its kinda nice, that you dont see this issue too. You have kinda “freed” yourself from this point of view. But on the other hand, you should be aware, that some poeple, with diferent bias, see things different. And if a right wing author would have posted this online, you would’ve thought about the post diferent too, I assume.
I dont want to write a detailed analysis of the picture to frame out every issue in detail and combined and write every possible interprations down, but I try to summarize it.
In this picture, a Kid, read as an Asian originated 13 year old boy, is photograhed. Obviously without clear consent. This is humilating for the kid and you could see this as an act of showing off power to him. He is quiet young and still has to work in the family bussines to keep it running. The family is very likely to be in need for customers, so he to needs to act as an servant and is unlikely to stand up for himself. The kid looks kinda nerdy and fulffills this way the cliche of the dilligent Kid from an asian family. The author isnt picturized, but the caption is in english and uses some kind of slang of the white majority for the offered food.
Or in short terms: A white person in power is humilating a servant, looking like a cliche-asian-kid.
Do you see it now?