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Objection@lemmy.ml 14 hours agoThe punchline is that this stereotypical Chinese person is so triggered by the mention of Taiwan that the drop the attempt at scamming and respond “fuk you.”
It’s hard to imagine how you could possibly make that more racist, and no, that is not a challenge.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Does China have a historically tumultuous relationship with Taiwan? Has China post been used a bunch lately to run scams? Do people when passionate write quickly enough to make spelling mistakes? I’m giving you an out on charicature with that last one. This is racist if you really want it to be.
Objection@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
As I’ve been abundantly clear this whole time, clarifying multiple times, it is not “China” represented in the meme, but a stereotypical Chinese person. “China” does not send text messages.
There are scammers of every race and in every country.
My misspelling was a more obscure word, and I mixed up the ch of “character.” We both know that this is a completely different thing then intentionally putting a stereotypical misspelling into a character’s mouth, and you really have to stretch to try to equate that with a random spelling mistake on my part.
More like it’s only not racist if you really want it not to be.
As they say, “once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.” Managing to fit three different stereotypes into such a short exchange is almost impressive, in a sick way.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
So 1 and 2 you’re agreeing with me, nice. Your third point continues to confuse me though. You’re acting as though the prevailing stereotype about Chinese people is that they are stupid and thus would mispell a word. Isn’t the actual stereotype about Chinese people the exact opposite? You know, really smart and good at math being the widely recognized stereotype.
Objection@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
Absolutely not.
You’re acting as though racist stereotypes have any degree of logical consistency whatsoever.
We both know why “fuk” is spelt that way, rather than any of the other words that could’ve been misspelled. But you can play coy all you like, as racists often do.