China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

I love how every single comment making fun Xi the pooh here is getting downvoted lol

It’s definitely part communists, but I think mostly special interest groups, maybe even from China itself.

You really want to feel special enough to think the Chinese government would even care about this internet backwater? Get real.

What a goddamned loser. Go sell your ignorant cultist bullshit somewhere else. Nobody here is buying it other than mindless idiots

Never heard of propaganda? It is like sand.

It is course and rough, and it gets everywhere.

Altering public opinion is definitely on their agenda. I’m not the type of person that screams China bad on everything, but this simply wouldn’t surprise me. Also, nobody is trying to feel special here, except for you.

Here’s a little something for the dictator simps:

Gee, I wonder which group of users would do something like that…

Probably the antiracists. You should wonder if you’re on the right side when you are promoting and supporting racism.

You have to be joking.

Right, because the meme about a Chinese man being a yellow bear isn’t racist.

Whoa whoa saying Chinese are yellow isn’t cool. Dat’s racist, with Pooh the color isn’t relevant

He isn’t a man. He is a bear. A fat, dumb bear.

Dehumanizing people through racism is a well established method the US has historically used when manufacturing consent to go to war among its people. Look at depictions of Germans and Japanese in WWII. Look at depictions of Koreans, the Vietnamese, Afghans, and Iraqis during the invasions of their countries.

Just because its origins weren’t racist doesn’t mean it hasn’t taken on a racist meaning. Sinophobia is rooted in racism and ignorance.

LMAO! Racist? I didn’t know “dictator” was a race! Please, enlighten me.

The Winnie the Pooh meme about Xi is just racism. I don’t care if you think he’s a dictator.

Top tier pearl clutching

The Taiwanese use the meme all the time. Obviously not because it looks like Xi in particular and especially because of fragile censoring, but because they like to be racist against themselves. That must be it.

Calling Trump a guinea pig is probably also considered racist in lemmygrad.

and especially because of fragile censoring

You think these memes are censored? Lol, you live in an authoritarian shithole that brainwashes you with this stupid shit. Use your brain.

it’s not racist bro the “taiwanese” use the meme all the time

Taiwan is where the former Republic of China retreated after being defeated by the People’s Republic of China. The censorship of Xi=Pooh in China isn’t rooted in racism, it’s rooted in the political conflicts between the ROC and PRC. China censors these comparisons because they are used by opponents to attack the government. You don’t have to agree with their methods to understand why they would want to do this. Censoring realistic threats to the ruling government is a common practice in all nations.

The racist aspect originates from how the meme is used in Western circles where there is a long history of racism towards minorities and the enemies of the US as well as a long history of sinophobia.

If your understanding of history, racism, and their opinions of Trump are so shallow, maybe lurking Lemmygrad to learn why users from this instance act so aggressively towards racism and war-mongering propaganda would be helpful.

Not racist at all. It’s against one person. Trump’s face is seen on an orange all the time. No one is calling for racism. He just looks like a damn orange.

So if Obama was depicted as Curious George that’d be cool yeah?

Not racist at all. It’s against one person.

So depicting Obama as a monkey in a political cartoon wouldn’t be racist?

There’s a big difference here.

Is Trump’s skin naturally orange? Is there a long history of oppressing white people in the US and other NATO countries?

Just because the Winnie the Pooh meme didn’t originate as a racist symbol doesn’t mean that it isn’t used to propagate racism and sinophobia.

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