Just curious how many of you are cool with this deeply racist image being the header for one of your comms
Sorry, I'm not quite sure how a picture mocking a specific person for something other than race is racist, let alone deeply so.
when a majority white community mocks a chinese man by comparing his appearance to a yellow bear, it's a little weird
The comparisons were first made in China, actually. The only reason we even know about the comparison is because he got so offended by them, and we keep doing it because he's upset by it. It's more about shape than colour, especially since Xi Jinping tends to wear trousers.
Hello Susaga! I'm going to repost a comment I made a few hours ago, in this instance:
"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 there are historical precedents of this kind of racism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril"
Could you demonstrate that transformation with other examples from here? Other asian people being compared to other yellow characters? Or has it remained specifically one person compared to one character?
Just going to sum up the responses thus far
Keep up the good work, Foucaults!
It ain't easy, but it's an honest days work
The only times ive seen hexbear users show up is disingenuous trolling like this.
Also someone please tell this smuglord that his instance isn't federated with ours and we can't see or respond to his comments, lol
Yeah I guess it is racist to say a singular person defines an entire race, you should maybe try not being so racist
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