• VikingHippie
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        11 months ago

        TIL that tankies are still super touchy about these silly old Pooh jokes. Tell Dear Leader I said hi, if The Great Firewall of China lets you.

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      11 months ago

      Did you ever stop to consider that a big yellow bear might be a little bit of a racist caricature?

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        11 months ago

        Did you ever stop to consider that cracking down on a silly caricature using government censorship is oppressive and that’s why people keep doing it rather than ascribing racial stereotypes to a cartoon bear?

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      11 months ago

      I never understood the Winnie the Pooh jokes. They’re not funny and he’s a beloved character so I don’t get it…

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        11 months ago

        I think the meme started with a picture of Xi and Obama being compared with Winnie the Pooh (yellow asian) and Tigger (rhymes with ******). It’s always been racism.

        https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xi-jinping-winnie-the-pooh-comparisons

        I can understand if it was censored in China for becoming a fascist symbol for the color revolution, however, it seems to not be the case.

        https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d41544e31497a4d/index.html

        If a country would go out of their way to ban a cartoon character they wouldn’t have an article in the national news outlet about it. Unless they realized a bit later that banning Winnie the Pooh would be seen as very silly.

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          11 months ago

          Oh so just straight up lies and racism… racists get weirdly creative when it comes to their hatred… I don’t understand the thought process but that’s probably for the best.

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        11 months ago

        Not much to understand: he looks like him and he’s ridiculously touchy about it to the point of using draconian government censorship to stop anyone in China from pointing it out and as such, pointing it out is a fun and silly way to protest oppression.

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        11 months ago

        Nah, I don’t hide behind obscured alts. My other accounts are both called Viking_Hippie so there’s no confusion