In all the years I’ve been around, both on the internet & among friends and acquaintances from Asia (incl. Taiwan & China), WtP has been a symbol of resistance against Xi Jin Ping and authoritarianism in China.
I know .ml is heavily tankie in general, but just need a double check from the more reasonable parts of the internet.
It’s not racist. It’s just what Chinese people started meming Xi years ago and the CCP government overreacted. Simple as that. Its what happens when an authoritarian leader gets flustered about their image.
It’s not racist, it’s specifically about Xi. Though the .ml people are the same people that claim not loving the CCP is racist. As if a political party or government also represents an ethnicity.
among friends and acquaintances from Asia (incl. Taiwan & China), WtP has been a symbol of resistance against Xi Jin Ping and authoritarianism in China.
You answered your own question. Don’t let them get under your skin. But to further validate you:
The comparison is about appearances to Xi, specifically. No one is saying the people of China look like Winnie the Pooh, and no one is using Winnie the Pooh in propaganda designed to oppress the people of China.
Tankie’s scream “racism” at Winnie the Pooh, exactly the same way MAGA’s scream "racism’ at DEI. They do not know, nor care, what the word actually means, and are using it to further their agenda by taking a position they can fallacious argue is morally superior. It is fake pearl clutching and moral grandstanding to justify nationalist fascism.
They’re literally Chinese MAGA. Unfortunately,
MACAMCGA doesn’t roll off the tongue as well as “tankie.”I stopped realizing it, but MACA is quite literally the slogan of Xi: 中华民族的伟大复兴 often translated to “Great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” in official English version. However, I feel a more accurate translation might be "the great resuscitation of the Chinese race."1
Basically the xenophobia of MAGA with a sprinkle of racial pride on top.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_rejuvenation_of_the_Chinese_nation
- “Chinese race” is likely not a scientific concepts, as Chinese people are made up of at least tens of different races, for the last two thousand years.
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IIRC blocking doesn’t stop them from seeing, voting on, and commenting on your post. It is better to pick a server that have de-federated from .ml
Originally it was just netizens comparing Xi to Pooh because they thought it was cute. But Xi has no sense of humor and banned the comparison. Now people use it to annoy CCP sympathizers. It’s not racist at all, the original intention of the comparison was good willed and innocent.
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Wikipedia’s english language article on the subject links to a BBC article from 2017 by Stephen McDonell, their China correspondent. He has his own Wikipedia article. You can read there that his reporting caused a warning to ABC (back in 2014 when he worked for ABC) from the chinese embassy. I don’t know what this entails exactly but anyway those were some facts
In his farewell to ABC he mentions being saved by the PLA while in NK, that seems balanced to me, although that is just a surface level read from me, I don’t otherwise know the guy
Also there’s that kind of thing
.ml are a bunch of alt-MAGA authoritarian bootlickers. They’re looking for any excuse to press down on the anti-dictatorship agenda.
Alt-Maga?
Pretty sure their just dumb tankies. Those are Chinese boots.
They’re ideologically the same, they just obey different masters.
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bro, fuck off with your bait, fuck off real hard
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MAGAs and Tankies both want one party rule, amd they’re both shitty parties.
Not sure about the origins of the winnie the pooh thing, but .ml thinks everything anti-CCP is racist.
Like literally, they don’t even want the diaspora criticizing the regime. Lmfao their false accusations of racism doesn’t work on me.
I’m Chinese. They’ve accused me of being racist against my own race for things like Xinnie the Pooh. .ml is a joke.
It’s not racist, unless we’re classifying Xi Jinping as his own ethnicity now.
They like to weaponise racism claims much the same Zionists use antisemitism.
Anything opposing the government of China is an anathema to them, since apparently they love capitalist oligarchies.
just need a double check from the more reasonable parts of the internet
So where are you asking then?
the more reasonable parts of the internet
:)
If .ml thinks something is bad, chances are it’s probably the opposite.
That means someone likes me?🥲
If you annoy .ml users, then I like you.
I could see the yellow fur of Winnie the Pooh being viewed as a reference to Asian people being “yellow” skinned.
However, the likeness of Winnie the Pooh and Xi Jin Ping are so similar in some of the pictures I have seen that I think it’s a more innocent making fun of and not a racism making fun of.
Look at all the BlueMAGA in the comments full of arrogant hubris. They’ve drank the entire jug of US propaganda and believe that they are immune to it
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