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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
The Chinese government is a race?
Disregarding the Chinese opinion of the Chinese government from a western standpoint is kinda racist yeah, it's removing agency from Chinese people.
It's so fucking funny yet nonsensical and pathetic. I have always seen this accusation of "racism" when criticising CCP. CCP trolls have taken a page from Israeli government's successful co-opting of "antisemitism". Although CCP's attempt to weaponise "racism" falls flat when you point out that the criticism is railed on pissing off South East Asia and Taiwan by trying to claim an entire body of ocean and wanting to annex a democratic society. So nothing is racist here. The "racism" angle is founded on weak grounds. Maybe this works on Chinese domestic audience? Russian trolls are cleverer with their psychological subversive tactics.
well then i must be racist cause i hate the U.S. government specifically.
McCarthyists unironically believe this.
Part of the problem with vilifying a culture for nearly a century is that your audience will eventually lose the ability to distinguish between the individual and the stereotype.
That's how we got Japanese Internment in the 1940s. That's a big reason for the anti-Venezuela hysteria in the modern day.