Just curious how many of you are cool with this deeply racist image being the header for one of your comms

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    Alright, I can see that. Not deliberate, as they also tinted his suit red to heighten the comparison to Winnie the Pooh, who also has a yellow face, but I can see your perspective now you’ve actually given it. Deeply racist is absolutely a stretch, though, but “kinda racist” is absolutely correct.

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        It’s not obvious! You posted a picture of a dictator with accidental racist undertones, called it deeply racist, and condemned anyone who didn’t agree with your perspective as racist, despite not actually giving your perspective! To most of us, we see “dictator” before we see “asian guy”. You’re not attacking the picture, you’re attacking the people on the same server as the picture. You being so quick to condemn makes it look like you’re defending a dictator more than amending injustice, and being so hesitant to explain your reasoning makes you look like a troll more than an activist.

        You’re a terrible representative of your own argument.

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            I condemn you, actually. Yes, the picture is poorly thought out and needs revision, even though it was designed for reasons other than racism. That’s what you should have said. But you didn’t want to fix the picture, you wanted to condemn everyone on this site for not condemning the picture.

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              What a contemptible piece of shit instance we got federated with this time. Fuck this place. Look at this asshole. Acting all fucking wounded because they weren’t coddled during the agonizingly slow process of them finally admitting that putting a world leader representing over a billion people in yellow face MIGHT be SLIGHTLY racist ON ACCIDENT. As if the feelings of the person committing the offense are the most important consideration in explaining their offense to them. The fucking entitlement.

              I don’t buy your bullshit. It’s not only racist, it’s deliberately racist and not only that but deep down you fucking know it as well. Just ask yourself: what’s the fucking point of the caricature in the first place? To be insulting, right? It’s an otherwise beloved childhood character though, isn’t it? So why has the west latched onto it so strongly? To mock his appearance, right? It’s a yellow fucking cartoon bear. Why are you acting coy about it? It’s not about his weight. It’s not that he has the facial features of a bear. No one makes pictures depicting him as Yogi or Baloo. It’s his race.

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                They jumped in to defend themselves. That’s what happens when you attack them. If you attack the thing and not the people, they don’t get so defensive.

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                  No one attacked anyone. OP asked how many of you were cool with this image. All you have to do is say “actually no, that image is fucked up” and suddenly you’re not under attack. In order to interpret this post as anything remotely similar to an attack on your character, you have to first decide that you’re cool with racism.

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                    No one is under attack, but you have to respond a specific way to stop the attack that isnt happening?

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                    You didn’t attack racism. You attacked people because there was racism nearby. Anyone who asked for an explanation was then called racist. You attacked people personally.

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            We accept that this image can be interpreted as racist, if one is unaware of the origin and original meaning of said image.

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            You say this, and yet you are still ignoring the other racist parts in this image. almost like you don’t care about the racism, and only picked one aspect about the image that was racist for the sake of having the moral high ground.

        • NormalC [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          To most of us, we see “dictator” before we see “asian guy”. You’re not attacking the picture.

          Damn you just didn’t “see” the racism so therefore it cannot be problematic. But since President Xi is a “dictator” that must mean that people who are calling me out for racism must be the ones at fault because they’re protecting a big evil man. Most people “agree” with you so therefore it must be “not racist”.

          I can tell you never worked through dismantling racist imagery that wasn’t spoon fed to you by a 24/7 news entertainment cycle.