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.
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'.
The image that was part of one of the communities in the shit just works Lemmy is just a straight up racial caricature and somehow people still defended it...
"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"
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.
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.
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.
Tankies desperately trying to distract from the fact that Xi Jinping is literally the depiction of a beloved stuffed teddy bear come to life as described by the poet A. A. Milne and animated by Disney
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.