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bodaciousFern@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoit is not “China” represented in the meme, but a stereotypical Chinese person
A person from a different country who has reached out in an English DM saying “your parcel is ready for pickup”, aka a scammer.
The joke is obviously painted this way, but you are intentionally misunderstanding so you can attack/dismiss the poster as a racist/fascist/Nazi, a very common leftist playbook technique to claim moral high ground.
Objection@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I fully understand that the racist caricature of a Chinese person presented in this meme is a scammer, that’s one of the stereotypes that makes it a racist caricature.
If someone mosted a meme with a Jewish “happy merchant” scamming people, would you read that as being ok because it’s about “scammers?” Or would you recognize that invoking the stereotype of Jews being scammers is racist? Especially when presented in the context of other racial stereotypes. Or is anti-Chinese racism more acceptable to you for some reason?
I didn’t misunderstand shit. Calling out racism is also a very common leftist playbook technique to… call out racism. Do you recognize that racism is a thing that exists and should be called out?