• naom3 [she/her]
    hexagon
    ·
    3 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
      ·
      3 months ago

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

      • naom3 [she/her]
        hexagon
        ·
        3 months ago

        That’s probably for the best tbh