Apparently, bringing up China being authoritarian is now “bigotry”. Makes sense now all those comments from .ml users that most people banned from .ml are for bigotry.

“Bigotry” = Anything negative about China or Russia now

There is no authoritarianism in Ba Sing Sei

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Apparently, bringing up China being authoritarian is now “bigotry”.

No way!

Oh wait, it’s on Lemmy.ml, yeah, carry on then! /s :-P

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BPR if you were aware of the instance and its reputation. PTB otherwise. Getting a ban from ML for this sort of thing is a something of a right of passage I think lol.

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You know the crazy thing? They’ll follow you around for months afterwards as well.

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What’s the ‘whinnie the pooh thing’?

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It became a meme to depict Xi Jinping as Winnie the Pooh, and China / Xi’s response was to completely ban all depictions or mentions of Winnie the Pooh.

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

There are many, many other words and phrases that just get scrubbed from any online post… these are called ‘Sensitive Words’.

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Oh bother.

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Chinese meme where they compared him to Winni, he cracked down it, the west loved it and adopted it too.

Tankies try to say it’s racist as if it represents all Asians and not just Xi personally, and it originated from China, so it’s doubly not about his ethnicity.

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At some point Xi got associated with Winnie the Pooh and imagery of it (usually of Winnie’s face being “morphed” into Xi’s face) became censored/banned in China

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Because he looks a lot like Winnie the Pooh. The shape of his face and body, his gait, his smile, it’s really uncanny.

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I once saw a comment on Hexbear about it being racist to call Xi Winnie the Pooh. I got confused and asked why would that be racist. I got laughed at for not seeing that he’s clearly called that because Pooh is yellow, which is also a derogatory term for asians. And this never even crossed my mind until then, I always assumed he’s called that cause he literally looks like Pooh and wears red (figuratively). Are they reaching or am I wrong?

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proper nomenclature when referring to the dear leader is shepooh, thanks.

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