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Does China have a historically tumultuous relationship with Taiwan?

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.

Has China post been used a bunch lately to run scams?

There are scammers of every race and in every country.

Do people when passionate write quickly enough to make spelling mistakes? I’m giving you an out on “charicature” with that last one.

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.

This is only racist if you really want it to be.

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.

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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.

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- Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  So 1 and 2 you’re agreeing with me, nice.
  
  Absolutely not.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
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  - Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You have a false opinion on why it may be spelled that way. I’m glad we could agree on the other stuff though. Common ground is important when having a respectful disagreement. You acknowledged that China and Taiwan have a tumultuous past for some reason you think thats irrelevant to the joke about China and Taiwan having a tumultuous past. Also that China Post has been used for scams very frequently recently, as have other international people/entities. That last part about the stereotype being that Chinese people are dumb just isn’t a contemporary sentiment in any way. You’re reaching HARD.
    
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    Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    I’m glad we could agree on the other stuff though. Common ground is important when having a respectful disagreement.
    
    I don’t “agree on the other stuff.” This is not a “respectful disagreement.” You are a racist.
    
    You acknowledged that China and Taiwan have a tumultuous past for some reason you think thats irrelevant to the joke about China and Taiwan having a tumultuous past.
    
    That’s not what the joke is about, at all. I swear, why do racists love playing coy like this so damn much?
    
    That last part about the stereotype being that Chinese people are dumb just isn’t a contemporary sentiment in any way.
    
    “What do you mean calling Mexicans lazy is a stereotype? Isn’t the actual stereotype that they take people’s jobs because they work hard?”
    
    If you keep playing dumb, people are going to think you’re not playing.
    
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