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Right? All the time they joke about how Trump is fat and a closet gay. Can't we just point out how much of a fascist he is and leave it at that?
And they really really hate it when that's pointed out
"The joke is on you! Chinese [and Arabs and Russians] aren't people" -- liberals
https://lemmy.world/comment/19716232
I mean last time I tried pointing out they were being shitty ended with them calling me and others calling it out as racist and shitty as just being overly sensitive
Its just a silly bear that happens to be yellow guys, nothing to see here.
I'm almost sure I won't get a serious answer but how is a joke about a specific person racist? It's not about stereotypes, just similarity to a cartoon figure. I live in Europe and my head of state looks like Mr Burns (he really does). Is that racism against white people? What is the difference?
The difference is calling an Asian person yellow has a long and very racist precedent. It would be akin to saying Obama looks like Curious George because A) he fucking doesnβt and neither does Xi look like Winnie and B) there are similarly obvious racial connotations between saying a black man looks like a monkey and that an Asian man looks like a literally yellow character.
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I'll try to provide a serious answer.
The difference is the long racist history of refering to Asian people as yellow skinned, phrases like "yellow peril" describing fears of Asian immigrants, so it's not a stretch to see how depicting a Chinese man with cartoonishly yellow skin is racist as fuck.
It would be like depicting a black politician as a monkey, it's difficult to defend something like that as just a joke against a specific person when there's such a racist connotation/history there.
You should be staying humble, because there is A LONG and storied history of hatred and violence against chinese people and anti-asian (which includes poles & russians) hate in general in germany. The fact that you don't think using a yellow-skinned bear as a caricature for an chinese person isnt is evidence for societal normalization of anti-asianism and Orientalism.
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