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2 months for joking about Pooh Bear in .ml's memes
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Absolutely no jokery allowed it seems XD
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this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2025
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It’s a lame joke but I don’t see why it should be banned
Because it seems like a racist charicature, no?
No it doesn't.
We should be allowed to mock our leaders, especially the dictators
Of course I absolutely agree, that doesn't mean forums should allow racist charicatures, however.
Why on earth would you assume i'm against that?
It's not Racist.
You're not processing reality
Is calling a chinese person yellow racist?
No. The Chinese people were specifically comparing Xi Jinping to Winnie The Pooh before the term was banned.
So? does it seem like one?
When you're a moderator on a forum, do you investigate this and check everyones intent, or do you go, someone posted a yellow bear to represent a chinese person and that seems racist to me?
No. It does not. This meme is well known and you're either playing dumb or were living under a rock.
Blackface is well known, guess it isn't racist.
You can say it's racist over and over, but that doesn't make is true.
If only there was a way to actually see what the Winnie the Pooh thing is even referencing... Oh well, guess you'll just have to keep lying instead.
the joke is clearly that winnie the pooh is yellow and so is xi, haha very funny.
obviously racist.
if winnie the pooh wasn't yellow I wouldn't care about this at all.
The joke is that the dude straight up looks like Winnie the Pooh. As in his face and body shape.
The color of the cartoon bear was never even something that popped into my mind, because I'm not a fucking racist and I don't see "yellow" to mean Asian.
I think it says a lot about you when you turn it into that...
Yeah, what it says about me is that i've seen enough racism against asians to recognize it and be against it.
What does it say about you that you don't even recognize it, or care to fight against it?
Yeah, sorry. Not going to work on me.
By the way, Winnie the Pooh isn't even yellow, he's light brown. You racist piece of shit.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+color+is+winnie+the+pooh&t=fpas&ia=web
Oh in that case I guess I'm colorblind!
Lol fuck off
Stop making things up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_in_China
??? what did i make up?
he's a yellow bear being paired with tigger, who was supposed to be obama.
Does that really not strike you as racist at all?
That article didn't even say one word about my point.
Han people aren’t being racist against themselves. You making it up if anything is more racist. As if Chinese people can’t make a meme.
Do you believe it's impossible for someone of a race to be or do something racist against themselves?
Honestly, even if you do, he's yellow.
That's all I need as a moderator to ban it, because it's racist to call chinese people yellow.
What does the history even matter?
The notion that i'm implying chinese people are incapable of making memes is hilarious, you should self-reflect.
Get a better charicature that doesn't seem racist. You're just feeding tankies and making yourself look weird.
Well, you're not the mod here, so who cares what you need to ban it?
No.
The joke was started by the Chinese on WeChat. No, it doesn't seem racist, unless you mean it's racist to appropriate Chinese memes?
Can chinese people not do racist ignorant things? I've known many ethnic minorities to make racist charicatures of their own race, I don't really see your point
You're brainwahsed and should self reflect
Well, when a Chinese person tells me it's racist and they're offended, I'll stop using it. Not really interested in what some white, probably American middle-aged dude cosplaying an armchair communist for the aesthetics thinks is offensive.
weird that you're making so many assumptions about me to feel okay with something kinda bigoted.
edit: I really don't get it... he's a yellow squinty eyed slow stupid lazy bear
He's yellow, you got that right. And that's the only thing. He's not squinty, slow, stops, or lazy. Similarly, Obama isn't orange and bouncy.
Idk man, we haven’t seen Obama walk in a while, maybe he grew a tail and bounces on it.
The only racist here is you dude, holy shit...
I don't need to make the assumptions to feel okay with it, the assumptions are just for fun on the side. I don't need to justify myself to you, and you failed to make me feel bad about it in the first place.
Now I bet you need a hug, come here.
I could be corrected on this but as far as I'm aware, it's not a caricature of Chinese people or Asian people, it's specifically a caricature of Xi Jinping, one of the most powerful people in the world. In fact, on Forbes list in 2018, he is listed as the #1 most powerful person in the world.
So I don't think it's a question of race so much as a question of how far are we allowed to make fun of the most powerful people on the planet.
The charicature part is strictly about his race though.
would you be fine with a blackface of obama?
the joke seems to be entirely yellow squinty eyed bear looks like him
i'm fine with forums banning racial charicatures, even of people in power
none of his personality resembles pooh, it's just his race, if anything he's ruthlessly efficient
I'm gonna have to explain this out very simply: blackface has a long history going back more than a century before Obama was even born.
There do exist racist caricatures of Chinese people with squinty eyes. Pooh does not have the squinty eyes. Ive yet to see any evidence of Pooh being used as a racist caricature before Xi Jinping.
I think you accidentally admitted the real issue: Pooh is silly, soft, and generally not that smart. Certain types of rulers need to be seen as strong, powerful, and perhaps even ruthless at all times.
The real offense is a possible degradation of his "strong man" image.
No. It's. Not. About. His. Fucking. Race.
Dude looks like a cartoon character. The only person bringing up race and calling people "yellow" here is you.
Not to split this but the real obvious parallel with Obama would be Tigger. I'm slightly surprised that didn't come up, because it's literally the same origin story.
This is not a mockery of his race.
This is a mockery of his fragile ego that is apparently hurt by such a joke.
How?