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Another country has called Xi a 'dictator' and China is not happy with that description (edition.cnn.com)

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China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

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[-] GreatGrapeApe@reddthat.com 12 points 2 years ago

No that would be racist.

[-] Laitinlok@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 2 years ago

The Internet has used it to indirectly refer to him

[-] GreatGrapeApe@reddthat.com 9 points 2 years ago

I did for a bit too until someone here pointed out the underlying issue. Winnie is yellow in all the images of him Disney made or not. And "yellow" people in Western racism are Asians particularly Chinese people.

It would be really fucked up for Germany to call Xi any variation of that name IMO.

[-] T4V0@lemmy.pt 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You are aware that they compare him to Winnie due to this image, right?

Left half of the image is Winnie the Pooh walking beside Tigger, right half is Xi Jinping and Barack Obama walking side by side.

Calling it out as racism would be an exaggeration.

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 years ago

The meme was created by Chinese bloggers, who used it to mock Xi despite heavy monitoring and censorship. If anything, perpetuating it is a show of support of Chinese dissenters.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

You are not a Chinese blogger.

At this point it's mostly just crackers who refer to him this way.

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 years ago

Did you just assume my ethnicity?

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I assumed your nationality - you don't live in China lol

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Fair enough

[-] aport@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Well you clearly are an authority on racism, you've got years of experience.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

You can't be racist against whitey lol

[-] aport@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

You seem to be enjoying your brain worms. Rock on

[-] Laitinlok@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

It honestly depends, some VPN companies like to use it to refer him but don't want to piss off the Ccp so they blocked all their servers.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Techbros are never racist.

Look, I'm sure not every use of the meme is racist - but all racists use the meme. Get it?

[-] Laitinlok@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

[-] Laitinlok@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Let's think about as a way to be less obvious when talking about him

[-] nyctre@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

This just in: calling a black person Mickey mouse is racist! Can't call a white person "Snoopy", that's racist too. Likening a Chinese person to a character from the Simpsons? Believe it or not, racist.