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Hey, new federated user from Hexbear here
(hexbear.net)
Just curious how many of you are cool with this deeply racist image being the header for one of your comms
For context, the joke is that the authoritarian dictator of china has outlawed depictions of whiney the poo in relation to their leader after chinease people started saying he looked like the character.
You can go to jail for wearing a poo bear t-shirt. A children's cartoon is now an icon of resistance, which is wild.
This is no different than that LGBT Putin image that'll get you put in jail in russia.
The yellow skin is, in my opinion, kinda fucked though. I know that the vast majority of people on here using it don't mean it that way but the effect would be kept while not changing the skin colour. The ears and red shirt are enough. Again though, the people using it are not necessarily racist for doing so.
To pre-empt the enevitable user entirely disinterested in conversation trying to epicly own me as has been the entire post from OP, yes, I'm entirely ok with this. You can 'mark me down' as whatever you wish.
For the hexbear users (or others) who want a conversation, out of curiosity, does your issue extend to the existance of this community on our platform? Is the issue only with the yellow skin? Does this, and if so how, make the people using it racist or would you say a non-racist person would never use this?
Wow, that is a joke. It's not a very good joke. Who came up with it?
(That literally never happened)
People have been jailed for this
Edit: better links. Radio Free Asia can't really be trusted
https://www.axios.com/2020/01/23/china-arrests-university-minnesota-twitter
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/china-student-arrested-xi-jinping/
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855
For clarity, my first source: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/tweets-01232020164342.html
Radio Free Asia cited
You are correct, that's a shit source. They've lied alot in the past, apologies for my failure here.
Here are some better sources: https://www.axios.com/2020/01/23/china-arrests-university-minnesota-twitter
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/china-student-arrested-xi-jinping/
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855
You truly have epicly owned me, with facts, and logic even.
You can refer to the picture in iridaniotter’s comment for evidence countering the assertion that Winnie the Pooh is not depicted within China in any capacity. As for your claims about Luo Daiqing, the Axios article cites a court document that is written entirely in Mandarin and a Twitter account that has been suspended, while the article on the Daily Dot relies on the Axios piece, so unless you’re able to read Mandarin, you posted a source who’s validity you and most other people here have no way of confirming because it validated what you already believed.
For the record, I am assuming that Luo was arrested and sentenced for the reason Axios alleges they were out of good faith, but your apparent inability to vet the sources you link, which is evidenced by both what I talked about above and the fact that you initially posted nothing but an almost comically transparent propaganda piece, is troubling nonetheless