• KimBongUn420@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        Making a play on a famous leaders name to weed, while upholding their leadership is the same as posting a meme that plays on racial tropes that encourages sinophobic discourse

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      6 months ago

      Mocking the apperance of one of the most powerful people on the planet isn’t racist, come on now.

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        6 months ago

        The first appearance of the meme is one with Barack Obama. Can you please remind us to what character he was compared to, that has a phonetically similar name to a racial slur? Do you deny that the yellow skin color is not a sinophobic trope?

        Not sure what you see when the Winnie xi meme gets postet, but I hardly ever see substantiative critique of power, but a endless redditism of how the Chinese are inferior and OP usually staying silent on the sinophobia in the comment section.

        It’s a sinophobic dogwhistle.

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    6 months ago

    I still cannot see the similarity btwn both faces. Do I like the human/animal capacity to see patterns? :,(