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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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Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The only person whose words are making them look dumb here is you. I can’t believe you would start throwing out random racist stereotypes completely unrelated. You sound like a mouthpiece for Trump right now. Shameful display, I hope one day you outgrow these nasty ideas you have about people.

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- Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Trump, famous for calling out anti-Chinese racism.
  
  I grew up in the South, and you sound just like every “polite” racist I ever met. Every single racist joke I ever heard, when someone gets called on it, they respond exactly like you.
  
  According to your absurd, twisted logic, the fact that there’s a stereotype of Asians being smart would give you carte blanche to depict them as ignorant or stupid, because “the actual stereotype is the opposite.”
  
  Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
  
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  - Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You’re acting in bad faith throughout this entire discussion.
    
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    Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Lol. You’re the one trying to equate my misspelling with the intentional, stereotypical misspelling. You tried to twist my words to pretend that I “agree with you on the other stuff,” pointing to one instance of Chinese scammers and acting like by acknowledging that scammers of every race exist, that it justifies stereotyping Chinese people as scammers. You’ve baselessly accused me of “sounding like a mouthpiece for Trump.” You tried to pretend that the meme was making fun of China, rather than a stereotype of a Chinese person, and you tried to pretend that the joke was just “China’ historically tumultuous past with Taiwan” which is obviously nonsense.
    
    All of that is bad faith. You know it’s not true and that none of it holds up, it’s just meant to give you a bit of rhetorical room to play coy.
    
    By contrast, what have I said or done that’s bad faith?
    
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