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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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[-] coyootje@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

It'd be funny if he called him "Winnie the pooh" when he meets him to explain himself :)

[-] GreatGrapeApe@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago

No that would be racist.

[-] Laitinlok@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 year ago

The Internet has used it to indirectly refer to him

[-] GreatGrapeApe@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

Did you just assume my ethnicity?

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Fair enough

[-] aport@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

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

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

You can't be racist against whitey lol

[-] aport@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

You seem to be enjoying your brain worms. Rock on

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

[-] Laitinlok@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] nyctre@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year 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.