• naom3 [she/her]
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      It’s not actually racist, it’s just a joke about how the name ‘Chongqing’ sounds kind of like a common racist way of mocking the Chinese language in English, and implying that the city was named with that modern, anglo-centric context in mind, when obviously that’s not the case

      • Jelamzer@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        Okay I just never heard anything in English not my (first language)that sounds like Chongqing

        • naom3 [she/her]
          hexagon
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          4 months ago

          That’s probably for the best tbh