Really weird (/s) how quickly it went from a couple of Chinese tourists asking politely not be filmed to the guy embracing the racist Winnie the Pooh stereotype and talking about how oppressed Hong Kong and Taiwan are.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    65
    ·
    10 months ago

    The Winnie the Pooh thing is just such nonsense to me. Even if we’re going to pretend that it’s banned in China and if you post it you get sent to an organ harvesting factory how in the fuck is it a valid form of protest while safely in the west? They aren’t even burning them in effigy. It’s just like the “ARE YOU TRIGGERED YET?” bullshit but for turbolibs. The bears are probably made in China. Fucking idiots.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      51
      ·
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      It’s not even a good caricature. You’re saying Xi Jinping is a very polite bear who eats honey and has lots of friends? Everyone loves Pooh, so the only comparison I can see is racist. They’d rather call Xi Jinping a bunch of slurs

      Libs all think they’re Charlie Chaplin dunking on Hitler, or like I don’t know…Dante putting all his political enemies in hell

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      21
      ·
      10 months ago

      It genuinely is the most brainwormed and pathetic thing. Worse than the ‘ok’ symbol thr right briefly popularized and then had the lubs freak out over.

      In a way it is sort of fascinating though as a sort of expression of zombie politics. It’s a sort of performative political act for in-group people and a countries where there is no real ideology in politics and they’ll never actually any kind of tyranical oppression.