A good starting point to learning as any; Like most Western news stories about China - The Winnie the Pooh thing (while also have ominous racist tones) is also just an entirely made up story with no basis in reality. The Pooh brand is alive, unsuppressed, and found throughout China.
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I_hate_you_welcome@feddit.nl 10 months ago
This thread also seems to be overrun by Winnie the Poohs, that’ll be the death of Lemmy.
CarbonScored@hexbear.net 10 months ago
I_hate_you_welcome@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Cool, don’t care.
commiewithoutorgans@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Also the original was vastly more racist than even this shows, with comparisons of Obama and Xi to Tigger and Pooh. I’m sure 1 letter change can hint you at what was intended behind the other comparison
h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 10 months ago
ehhhh, come on guys. Let’s not do that. It was just that Obama and Xi walking next to each other looked like tigger and pooh.
Mindfury@hexbear.net 10 months ago
ok tankie
HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Lemmy was made by communists for communists, you’re on our home turf telling us that we’re ruining what we made because you want Lemmy to just be a right wing Reddit clone circle jerk about how evil china is
HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It’s the biggest issue I have w Lemmy for sure
forcequit@hexbear.net 10 months ago
it’s actually short for FAD749 Bear
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Oh cool racist caricatures. You all me a boot licker but you have no clue what my thoughts are on China. I can assure you I have plenty of criticism of China, but you aren’t deserving of good faith engagement of that level when your opening argument is just Nazi shit.
randint@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Winnie the pooh is not a racist term. It is merely an insult to Xi.
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 10 months ago
No but the memes depicting an asian socialist leader as a bumbling gluttonous yellow bear certainly is. I’m not even a tankie btw.
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one 10 months ago
I always thought Pooh was coded as a fat Brit white guy.
forcequit@hexbear.net 10 months ago
I don’t hate the people I just hate the government, anyway he’s yellow lol
commiewithoutorgans@hexbear.net 10 months ago
You joking? Or is this parody of the other non-hexbear poster?
Bakzik@hexbear.net 10 months ago
A racist user crying about the anti-racism of Hexbear users.
Then they play the card “Is just and insult, no racial connotations”.
Classic racist.
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AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 10 months ago
If he looks like a cartoon bear why didn’t people compare him to Yogi or Baloo?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Yogi would have been perfect too, just replace the picnic baskets with western means of production 😎