Really weird (/s) how quickly it went from a couple of Chinese tourists asking politely not be filmed to the guy embracing the racist Winnie the Pooh stereotype and talking about how oppressed Hong Kong and Taiwan are.
If you watch the original video it’s apparent. He calls them Japanese even after they say they’re Chinese (they’re waving Chinese flags btw), and says other deranged shit.
Oh yeah, it was weird reading the comments on reddit-logo .
Like people saying ‘fuck the ccp’ as though it meant something. Or that a few people asking not to be filmed represented the whole Chinese government.
It’s terrifying that the US has a division of the military dedicated to killing people remotely with drones and such an easily manipulated population who would do so on Reddit in a heartbeat.
The Winnie the Pooh thing is just such nonsense to me. Even if we’re going to pretend that it’s banned in China and if you post it you get sent to an organ harvesting factory how in the fuck is it a valid form of protest while safely in the west? They aren’t even burning them in effigy. It’s just like the “ARE YOU TRIGGERED YET?” bullshit but for turbolibs. The bears are probably made in China. Fucking idiots.
It genuinely is the most brainwormed and pathetic thing. Worse than the ‘ok’ symbol thr right briefly popularized and then had the lubs freak out over.
In a way it is sort of fascinating though as a sort of expression of zombie politics. It’s a sort of performative political act for in-group people and a countries where there is no real ideology in politics and they’ll never actually any kind of tyranical oppression.
It’s not even a good caricature. You’re saying Xi Jinping is a very polite bear who eats honey and has lots of friends? Everyone loves Pooh, so the only comparison I can see is racist. They’d rather call Xi Jinping a bunch of slurs
Libs all think they’re Charlie Chaplin dunking on Hitler, or like I don’t know…Dante putting all his political enemies in hell
The original meme that sparked all this was when someone compared a photo of Xi and Obama walking together with a photo of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger walking together
No points for guessing who was who
That one got iirc banned from Chinese social media but not Winnie the Pooh overall
i don’t know if it’s funny or depressing the way western media convinces rubes they’re “speaking to power” by soapboxing against state enemies in their own country.
a) how is Xi affected by this action b) how are you at risk for this action
Shocking that an innocent UK citizen is being taken down by Chinese propaganda. Almost like we’ve seen how they operate. This gentleman educated himself and now he’s educating the masses. This is quite commendable.
Taiwan should put Winnie the Pooh back in his place.b
haha chinese president is yellow animal because he’s totalitarian (i love my political system founded by slave owners which produces millions of homeless people; it is a paragon of freedom and efficiency)
It was originally Chinese people comparing Xi and Obama to the characters because of the way they walked. That’s fine. But then westerners decided to make it some protest symbol.
Would you agree that political cartoons depicting Obama with big monkey ears and lips are racist even if political cartoons caricaturize all their subjects to the extreme?
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