Winnie the Pooh is literally yellow.

How did I not realise this before.

  • FSEngine [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I'm an Asian guy, and I promise you if someone called me Winnie the Pooh, my first thought would be they're calling me kinda pudgy, not be that they're being racist. But no one would ever call me Winnie the Pooh, because there's no context for anyone here to call me or any other given Asian person Winnie the Pooh. It's not the n word for Asian people, it's not any of those established slurs that are otherwise innocuous but in the context of Asian people turn extremely racist, it's not calling me Chang or whatever because my eyes are a little slanted, it's not accusing me of bringing coronavirus to America and then intimidating or assaulting me. The context for this is "a world leader is a little too sensitive about a meme and John Oliver (or his writers) thought that was funny and now so do libs who have a knee jerk negative reaction to China". No violence is being done towards Asian people as a whole when someone calls Xi Winnie the Pooh. It's just libs doing their cringey Trump = Voldemort thing, except for a different guy. There's Sinophobic and broader orientalist ideas that translate into legitimate instances of modern day "subtle" anti-Asian racism. This is not one of those instances.