- cross-posted to:
- memes@hexbear.net
- cross-posted to:
- memes@hexbear.net
What about not coloring a white man’s face leaving it white? Also racist?
Have white people, the dominant race in The West for centuries now, ever been enslaved / racially abused / seen as lesser people because of their skin? Is walking around in any way dangerous for a white person just because of their skin color? We in The West have experienced a dominant white culture through decades of racism and colonialism. White thinking is, to this day, the dominant power structure in Western countries. To say racism against white people can’t happen, is indeed stupid. Individual white people can be hurt by statements made against their race. But it will never hurt the social-economic and priviliged status of the white person in current western society.
Read up on the Yellow Peril to learn why it is highly problematic to call Asians ‘yellow’ and why no similar campaign has ever been started to dehumanize white people.
Have white people, the dominant race in The West for centuries now, ever been enslaved / racially abused / seen as lesser people because of their skin? Is walking around in any way dangerous for a white person just because of their skin color?
Yes absolutely, enslavement obviously not on the scale of black people, but if you say that stuff never happened to white people you’re ignoring a large part of the world. Racism against whites is very much a thing in Africa, Asia and probably all other non western countries
Racism against whites is very much a thing in Africa
I wonder fuckin why
Racism against whites is very much a thing in Africa, Asia and probably all other non western countries
Source?
Point taken on the enslavement on white people in history. I knew someone would probably pop up to say this. It doesn’t change my point about current day white supremacy in Western thinking.
I do heavily doubt that institutional and societal racism against white people happens on the same scale as the Western institutional racism against non-whites, though. As I said above, racism from individual to individual may very well happen. It is the power dynamic involved in racism that changes the impact of it.
for background info, the chinese government does not ban the actual associate of winnie pooh to xin unless it is used to promote racism contrary to the claim by the red fascist tankiejerkers, liberal sloganists, and the NATO-backed hong kong rioters by young students who never know about the period before the return of hong kong to chinese rule. The liberal sloganists justify the racist act on the claim that it is directed towards an oppressive dictator, but they cannot explain why they attack a ‘tyrant’ for their chinese ethnicity and appearance instead of their morality. For more suspicions, the winnie pooh association of Xi Ping in chinese hate crime propaganda are from people who contradict their hong kong independence slogan with return to british colonial rule and who believe that british immigrants are the only true ‘hong kongers’.
also depicting Xi Jinping as Winnie the Pooh isn’t banned in China because it personally offended him and he’s like a petty tyrant king. It’s because misrepresenting the government is illegal and they take that seriously. Maybe from my stupid western perspective it’s going a little too far, but also China wouldn’t tolerate something like a Qanon movement, or orther wild ass conspiracy theories, so at least they have that going on.
It’s the same as those homophobic memes of Putin in makeup or kissing Trump, “bigotry is fine if it’s used against someone I don’t like”
Exactly. Sometimes people will defend it with some supposed high-minded origin, like “it’s not saying being gay is wrong, it’s using trump’s homophobia and insecurity against him and turning it into a vulnerability that we’re using to trigger him”. And maybe some of the people repeating it actually believe that, but the images don’t come with a paragraph explaining the nuance. They’re just supposed to be an easy shot at trump, you’re supposed to laugh and keep scrolling. Most people liking or sharing them aren’t thinking about it any more than “haha, he’s owned cause he’s gay”.
You can spend all day convincing yourself that your specific way of thinking about it isn’t racist/homophobic, but when you share this shit online all that stuff stays in your head, and you’re just spreading bigotry.
Yeah, and even if they genuinely believe it, the message is still “gay = bad”. They are either telling on their internalized bigotry or willfully ignoring the hurt it causes to the actual victims of that bigotry
And the same libs are the first to cry “reverse racism” when they hear even the slightest criticism of whiteness
It really falls apart any way you look at it, but some of them seem to believe they’re the one person who is immune to propaganda and has complete control over their biases and associations. Like, okay even if that’s true, what happens now that you shared it with people that aren’t as big-brained as you.
These colonial worshipping kids have been kneeling so long that they’ve forgotten how to stand.
Their beloved ‘prime minister’ Churchill has quotes that wouldn’t feel out of place in Hitler’s collection:
“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion”
[the Pashuns] needs to “recognise the superiority of race”
“I hate people with slit eyes and pigtails. I don’t like the look of them or the smell of them — but I suppose it does no great harm to have a look at them.”
We shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them… as civilised nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations. I believe in the ultimate partition of China—I mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.
The last one still rings true with the “just the government not the people” libs nowadays.
The last one is utterly jaw-dropping, not necessarily because I’m surprised Churchill said it, but how this sentiment has hardly suffered a dent in the contemporary “western” zeitgeist.
Replace a few words, trade “Aryan” for “European”, “civilized” for “developed”, and “barbaric” for “authoritarian”… boom, you’ve got a chart-topping WaPo OpEd.
it’s also pure 100% undiluted projection.
nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations
the west is the one that’s done all that and keeps doing it.
All i could think of reading that section was
“Yeah guys I’m totally not racist, I just think those dirty yellow ching-chongs are ugly and inferior to our superior white race and we should nuke all those subhumans to make way for more lebensraum for the white race !1!!1111!!1!111”
Anti-Asian Racism
A liberal once made an anti-CPC song with the lyrics “They say ching chang chong and oppress Hong Kong”
Is that Rucka Ali?
IDK, if you want to see this eyesore just look up the “Chinese Censorship Song”
Reminds me of a popular kindergarten birthday song in The Netherlands where you squint your eyes with your fingers and sing ‘Hankipanki Shanghai, Hankipanki Shanghai, Hankipanki Hankipanki, Hankipanki Shanghai’ to the tune of Happy Birthday To You.
It’s not done anymore in most schools these days AFAIK but only since recently
least racist dutch
That sounds like something I would have found funny back when I was an idiot eleven-year-old.
Just scrolled past this on All.
Americans should be contained be the SCP.
Sure, 90% of you guys over there are racists and have a huge racism problem but don’t go apply your racist shit to everyone internationally.
I’ll continue having Xi an Pooh synonymous because I’m not racist and can actually do things in life without trying to make it about ““race””.
P.S. God, where did Americans even get the idea that Asians look yellow?? Most of my family is Asian and is black. I know Asians who are paler than me (German).
It’s like I’d color my face blue and someone calls me a racist, discriminating penguins.
It’s like I’d color my face blue and someone calls me a racist, discriminating penguins.
Who’s “we”? Only 40% of our users come from Anglo North America.
You think everything you disagree with comes from the US which allows you to dismiss it out of hand and never have to struggle with your preconceptions and privilege.
PS: Uh-huh. French “satire” from 1898:
honestly bold words for someone whose family were probably nazis to claim Germany is the Mr. Magoo of racism lol
Most of my family is Asian and is black.
Okay, so you’re comfortable tap-dancing. That doesn’t mean all of us are.
Saying “This isn’t racist because it is based off of a similar meme that originated in China” has big “I can’t be racist when I say the N-word because I have a black friend.” energy.
I challenged this notion with a lib the other day.
The watermelon originated in Africa. That doesn’t mean that the vile caricaturised depictions of black people eating watermelons is somehow not inherently racist.
You can also look to the origin and continuing usage of the swastika, especially in Asian cultures, as another example here - you aren’t going to tell me that the right-angled unicode swastika being used by westerners on the internet isn’t done in service of fascism 99% of the time.
And on that matter, don’t let erm-ackshually dorks tell you that the 90 degree swastika wasn’t used by Nazis and isn’t representative of them. One of the most famous depictions of the Nazi swastika is a right angled one:
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1214749781387436032/pu/vid/450x360/o0Nxlts0lffM8lUv.mp4
“The watermelon originated in Africa. That doesn’t mean that the vile caricaturised depictions of black people eating watermelons is somehow not inherently racist.”
That’s not what is happening here tho. You can’t claim that every cartoon where a black person interacted with a watermelon is racist.
Just like here you can’t claim it just cuz the character is yellow it is racist.
Pooh is used cuz dude looks like Pooh… Not cuz he’s yellow. The fact that Pooh is yellow too doesn’t suddenly make it racist.
The libs downvoting this post en masse 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’m on hexbear so I can’t see the downvotes lmao 🤣
I just see the overall score
It’s got 97 up and 50 down rn
This is why disabling downvotes is good. Make those cowards show themselves.
Racists who know enough not to talk openly shouldn’t be able to passively influence discussion either.
Honestly I’ve begun coming around to the idea specifically bc cracker liberals downvoting like punkasses instead of standing on their square and speaking what they believe with the whole chest
One of the places Lemmygrad should take a leaf from y’all’s book
Oh no the local edgelord has arrived guys
Please excuse my not caring about alleged racism directed at a totalitarian shit stain.
The whole circus has arrived with them
Chinese here. Thanks everybody for fighting racism on my behalf. I’d just like to point out that I’ve never considered, or met any other Chinese person who considered, the Xinnie meme racist.
I have. Especially in the context most westerners use it. You’re welcome.
And I know Indians who don’t think swastikas are racist. Doesn’t mean racists don’t use symbols and images as a trojan horse for racism.
I always thought it was because xi Jinping is a fat fucking moron who actually looks like whinny the Pooh’s genocidal twin. It never occurred to me that it might be a race thing.
okay, lemmy user Colour_me_triggered
lol he’s FAT and STUPID too!!! XD 🤣 😂
Peak liberal critique and humor.
cite a real source for this “genocide”, lib
least racist liberal
Death to America
The cowards who’ve upvoted this but have not posted come out and answer for your
Huh, never even thought about him being yellow, I always thought the joke was he was fat and stubby (and I guess oh-so-cuddly)?
Plus it’s not a good meme so much as he Streisand Effect’d the shit out of it. Like, the shiiiiit out of it…
It’s not deliberate
Your point is mentioned by the meme.
(But I disagree with the meme. Saying you are not allowed to satirically compare asians with characters that happen to be yellow is a problematic statement in itself.)
The only problem here is you
Except that centuries ago the Europeans decided to start the Yellow Peril campaign to strip Asians of their humanity by calling them the ‘yellow danger’, which still has its effects today. Other than being a yellow bear there is nothing noteworthy comparing Xi to Winnie. Do better. Would it be okay for you to satirically compare black people with characters that ‘happen to be black’?
The comparison stems from the general physique and perceived mannerisms that supposedly match between the two. I’m not sure the colour was an original part of the meme anyway. The origin was that image of Xi and Obama walking alongside each other, with the drawing of Pooh and Tigger to show how similar of an image it was. Xi was not coloured yellow in those earlier images, that started after the CCP cracked down on those memes.
The origins of the meme may very well be harmless. It started on Chinese social media AFAIK. Westerners going on a run with the meme is what made it problematic.
…didn’t this meme start in China? Pretty crucial context here lol.
Rap music also started in the black community but that hasn’t stopped white racists from using tropes and out of context snippets from rap music to attack black people.
It did, as a light-hearted joke comparing Xi and Obama walking side by side with a resembling image of Tiger and Pooh. Of course, westerners then proceeded to take it and turn it into their own distortion and elaborate some story about how China is banning Winnie the Pooh and that is why painting a chinese man yellow with photoshop is a sign of resistance against a government on the other side of the globe and totally not racist.
It resembles a lot the same thing that happened with that image that floated the internet around a few years ago of Putin photoshoped as a stereotypically and comically flamboyant homosexual man, which is totally not homophobic even if the punchline is “he’s gay” because you can always make it up that the image is banned somewhere and thus is a sign of resistance and contains no reactionary sentiment behind.
I wouldn’t really called the original “light hearted” since Obama was compared to character named literally “Tigger”.
On a note outside of the racism discussion, I don’t think Winnie the Pooh is yellow. He’s not orange like Tigger but he’s definitely not yellow like Rabbit.
Mostly depends on the shading the artist uses. He’s often depicted just as yellow as rabbit, or just as orange as Tigger.
It’s almost as if color isn’t the point here and op is splitting hairs for no reason.
Nah, people in the West who use the Winnie the Pooh meme are 100% being racist