Really weird (/s) how quickly it went from a couple of Chinese tourists asking politely not be filmed to the guy embracing the racist Winnie the Pooh stereotype and talking about how oppressed Hong Kong and Taiwan are.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    9 months ago

    the original meme that was reportedly censored used a picture of Xi as Pooh and Obama as a character whose name rhymes with the N word

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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      9 months ago

      The potential of it causing diplomatic issues with it possibly being a racist meme targeted at Obama was the exact reason it was proactively censored.