If so, was it polled somewhere?

    • HornyOnMain
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      10 months ago

      I am incredibly owned rn

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      • Estiar@sh.itjust.works
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        10 months ago

        It's the 1989 Tiemaman square Tank Man picture and Xi Jinping as Whinnie the Pooh, images commonly censored in China as one of them demonstrates clear oppression and the other discredits the CCP.

        • Venus [she/her]
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          10 months ago

          Oppression is when you stand in the way of a tank and the tank stops for you, and then you climb on top of the tank and have a conversation with the guy in the tank, and then you walk off completely unharmed

        • Bakzik [he/him, comrade/them]
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          10 months ago

          Oh, so @CookieJarObserver is using the racist Whinnie the Pooh insult.

          hitler-detector

          As always. Scratch a liberal and a fascist/racist bleeds.

            • Bakzik [he/him, comrade/them]
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              10 months ago

              Things can undergo a transformation, just because the original usage might have been innocent. If something starts being used by white racists or western imperialists in a racist way, would ya look at that, it’s racist.

              Also, it’s covert racism. It gives people plausible deniability. Like you are doing now.

              And this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril

              • Estiar@sh.itjust.works
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                10 months ago

                You may be in different circles than me. In my circles, it is used to poke fun at Xi Jinping, not the Chinese people. It is a caricature, just as we draw caricature of our own politicians. Despite the CCP's attempts, Westerners distinguish between race and state. Xi Jinping is not China and China is not Xi Jinping.

                • Bakzik [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  10 months ago

                  There are lot's of ways to criticize a political figure or a government. But you choose the racist caricature.

                  Back to point 2: it’s covert racism. It gives people plausible deniability.

                  But, at the end of the day, westerners imperialists love their orientalism and their covert racism.

                  • Estiar@sh.itjust.works
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                    10 months ago

                    You do realize the only reason why people keep sharing it is because of the Barbra Streisand effect. People loyal to Xi Jinping thought hate it, so people like me share it because it's funny to see their reaction

                    • Egon [they/them]
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                      10 months ago

                      Winnie the Pooh isn't censored in China though, so what even is the point except to equate an Asian man with a yellow cartoon figure?

                    • HornyOnMain
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                      10 months ago

                      You do realize the only reason why people keep sharing racism is because of the Barbra Streisand effect. People loyal to Xi Jinping thought hate racism, so people like me share racism because it's funny to see their reaction

                • Egon [they/them]
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                  10 months ago

                  You are saying an Asian person looks like a yellow cartoon bear. Can you not see how that implication is racist?

                    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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                      10 months ago

                      Godwin himself told people to stop invoking that shit because so many Nazis and racists try to use it as deflection.

            • ReadFanon [any, any]
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              10 months ago

              And you realise that watermelons originated in Africa, right?

              You realise that the origin of something doesn't determine the depictions of it supporting racist stereotypes, such as a vast array of disgustingly racist caricatures of black people eating watermelons isn't absolved by the fact that watermelons originated in Africa, right?

        • 420LetPobedy [none/use name]
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          edit-2
          10 months ago

          Have you ever seen the complete tank man video? he doesn't get run over, while in the authoritarian US state vehicles are often running into peaceful protestors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-W-7WPWfE4

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            10 months ago

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            10 months ago

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        • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          How dare those tanks not run over that man! Don't they understand that freedom is when you just plow into people like US security forces do.

      • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
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        10 months ago

        I'm fairly new to Lemmy. What does that signify? something to do with federation I guess? I can see the picture - Xi as Pooh Bear..

        • HornyOnMain
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          edit-2
          10 months ago

          Recently someone started trying to bring large Lemmy instances down by posting CSAM on large instances with open sign ups, as a result the hexbear mods made it so that images from untrusted instances wouldn't be shown to hexbear users to avoid hexbear users having to see stuff like that and to reduce the mods workload, idk whether its a temporary measure or not but for now all images from untrusted instances are just replaced with the words *removed externally hosted image* on our end

          • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
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            10 months ago

            Thank you, that makes sense.

            I had to see and report some offensive material on that line, and while it was quickly removed by our admins I don't think there's any way to actually prevent it.

            • HornyOnMain
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              10 months ago

              Apparently there's been some discussion on lemm.ee of getting an AI that will automatically detect CSAM and delete it automatically but idk whether anything will come of it