Show me the racism, because I’m not seeing it. Because Pooh is yellow? I think that’s a stretch. The guy has a passing resemblance to Pooh I think is the long and short of it, no more racist than Cheeto/Trump. Yes libs are annoying and often racist, but AFAIK calling this racist unfortunately has no ground to stand on.

  • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]
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    8 months ago

    no more racist than Cheeto/Trump

    Can't be racist towards white people.

    There's no historical precedent for white people to be discriminated using language like orange skin or cheeto

    AFAIK calling this racist unfortunately has no ground to stand on

    As far as you know? Well as far as I know, Asian people have had their skin depicted as yellow for decades in harmful racist propaganda so depicting a Chinese person as a character with yellow skin seems like pretty solid ground for an accusation of racism.

    Could you maybe elaborate on how you think calling Trump a cheeto is comparable at all?

    • davel [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      They are comparable in that every politician of any note is going to be caricatured, in political cartoons, the media in general, and in memes.

      I’m not interested in Xi being caricatured, but obviously people are going to do it, and not (only) because he’s not white, but because he’s a politician of note. What caricature of Xi would disinterested people consider to not be racist? Perhaps Papa Smurf (just for argument’s sake as I see no resemblance)?

      I can’t really disagree, though, that the Pooh’s yellowness is a red flag.