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Imagine being so racist and unfunny that even politicalmemes wouldn’t let you post. Proud day for you and your family, dipshit
Ah yes: a Chinese person expressing distaste towards their country's authoritarian government is racist. Makes total sense.
They're not racist. They're sinophobic /sarcasm
And being pro-ukraine is russophobia, don't forget that /s
And being anti-Trump is 'Trump derrangement syndrome' /s
The Chinese government is a race?
It's so fucking funny yet nonsensical and pathetic. I have always seen this accusation of "racism" when criticising CCP. CCP trolls have taken a page from Israeli government's successful co-opting of "antisemitism". Although CCP's attempt to weaponise "racism" falls flat when you point out that the criticism is railed on pissing off South East Asia and Taiwan by trying to claim an entire body of ocean and wanting to annex a democratic society. So nothing is racist here. The "racism" angle is founded on weak grounds. Maybe this works on Chinese domestic audience? Russian trolls are cleverer with their psychological subversive tactics.
well then i must be racist cause i hate the U.S. government specifically.
Disregarding the Chinese opinion of the Chinese government from a western standpoint is kinda racist yeah, it's removing agency from Chinese people.
Having a different opinion than the Chinese people is neither racism nor removing agency from the Chinese people. Where did this logic even come from? It's not like he's criticising the Chinese race by disagreeing with their opinion. Me not liking your favourite food does not relate to your race nor your agency to like the food, so why should it for opinions on goverments?
McCarthyists unironically believe this.
Part of the problem with vilifying a culture for nearly a century is that your audience will eventually lose the ability to distinguish between the individual and the stereotype.
That's how we got Japanese Internment in the 1940s. That's a big reason for the anti-Venezuela hysteria in the modern day.
"Racism is when you don't like the Chinese government"?
These posts are a good way to find who to mute!
So are we just going to ignore the bit about "Chinese families" then? Seems like a rather broad racial generalization, and the poster is quite clearly implying their belief in some negative stereotype.
Your response doesn't even make sense, unless you are proposing that all "Chinese families" are actually CCP officials?
The poster is Chinese, and regularly writes about struggling with cultural expectations with regards to traditional Chinese familial norms. If I wrote that white American family cultural norms were fucked, as a partly-white American, would that make me racist? Not only that, but families are placed at the midpoint, not the fucked-up 'end' of the drawing.
Yeah, everyone seeing this knows the poster's heritage, favorite food, and post address.
There is a difference between "Chinese families" and "my Chinese family". Maybe you would understand if "Chinese" was replaced with "Black".
It's just plain bigotry.
The Chinese families bit is most likely a reference to widespread, problematic family dynamics stemming from shared social pressures in China. Just in living memory, a household might have gone through: a revolution, the cultural revolution, famine, rapid urbanization, one child policy, economic booms, economic bubbles, etc...
That will leave any family pretty fucked up, though it may not be universally bad (hence, only the middle of the horse). In the future, we'll probably see similar echoes of trauma from the USA's current historical flashpoint.
" is when you don't like "
- manipulative people for whom facts mean even less than consent
Actual footage of where this hot take came from:
^ Typical Tankie L Take
Anti-racist = tankie
Calling criticism of the Chinese state government racism = tankie
Why are tankies always so dishonest?
This is a known community member who was born in China.