No and it’s fucking stupid to say it is because they’re both yellow. That’s probably more racist than the image.
This is the origin. Which is from Chinese social media. It only became known in the west because China banned this imagery. So now posting him as Winnie the Pooh is directly a mockery of China’s strict information control and running around calling it racist is dumb.
To be short, it doesn’t really matter what the original intent was. There are too many parallels to racist tropes, and now we have people who insist that it’s not racist because they actually want to do dog whistles. So now this thing that maybe didn’t start as a racist thing, now definitely is.
The point of that example was how something was racist even though it wasn’t originally intended to be racist or the people doing it were intending to be racist.
Chinese people don’t use that meme anymore. It’s almost exclusively foreigners. And in that context, with the history of racist yellow caricatures, the meme is racist. It’s honestly odd that you’re defending it this much.
There’s nothing racist about this. Lmfao
You really can’t see how portraying an Asian person as a yellow cartoon is racist?
The chinese people who started it are racist to themselves?
No and it’s fucking stupid to say it is because they’re both yellow. That’s probably more racist than the image.
This is the origin. Which is from Chinese social media. It only became known in the west because China banned this imagery. So now posting him as Winnie the Pooh is directly a mockery of China’s strict information control and running around calling it racist is dumb.
You’re reaching for this one.
I’m going to share this Reddit comment about a Dutch tradition where people used to wear blackface.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/CdonBFsbVJ
To be short, it doesn’t really matter what the original intent was. There are too many parallels to racist tropes, and now we have people who insist that it’s not racist because they actually want to do dog whistles. So now this thing that maybe didn’t start as a racist thing, now definitely is.
Dutch people aren’t black, Chinese people are a melting pot of ethnic groups associated as Chinese. Are Dutch people from Africa?
The point of that example was how something was racist even though it wasn’t originally intended to be racist or the people doing it were intending to be racist.
Chinese people don’t use that meme anymore. It’s almost exclusively foreigners. And in that context, with the history of racist yellow caricatures, the meme is racist. It’s honestly odd that you’re defending it this much.
No you see, China is based except when Chinese citizens call them out, then they’re somehow self-racist.