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Where’s Winnie the Pooh saying “Taiwan and Hong Kong are China?”
Now where’s Margaret Thatcher saying “Ireland is United Kingdom”
Whataboutism
But anyway, the official stance of even the US government has for decades been that Taiwan is part of China
Notice how none of the other characters are racist depictions.
Referring to him as “Winnie the Pooh” has never had anything to do with race, hence why no one uses it to refer to any other Chinese person.
Then what does it actually have to do with?
A picture of him and Obama that resembles of a scene of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger from 2013.
They are in the same gait positions… is there more to it than that?
The only thing more to it is that Xi tried to have it scrubbed and censored, so now it’s also used to mock the dude for being a tyrannical asshat. Hittin’ that Streisand Effect.
Xi tried to have it scrubbed and censored
Any evidence for that claim?
There wouldn’t have been if they didn’t make such a big deal about it. It would have been a funny picture we all forgot about by now.
The fact that Xi Streisand-ed it hell and back.
The same way calling Bibi a murderer isn’t antisemitic calling Xi Winnie is not racist.
Government leaders are not a protected class/race, sorry.
Government leaders are not a protected class/race, sorry.
if anything, I’d say they deserve MORE scrutiny.
Tell me you just see a heavily blurred picture on your government computer without telling me you just see a heavily blurred picture on your government computer
It’s not blurred, the screen on the pentagons bidet is just really small.
Get over it
His face and body resemble Pooh.
Him looking vaguely like Winnie the Pooh, and more being mad about it.
Big mad*
This is a fantastic opportunity for learning!
Learning about dog whistles?
Notice how you’re the only one bringing up racism
Racists don’t bring up their own racism as racism, they try to paint it as other things.
You are in that stage of development… You will grow out of it
I see you’ve left your brain in some bin, and it’s definitely rotting.
Go on, dear…
Liberals accidentally outing themselves as racist is always ridiculous to me. People think XI JINGPANG looks like Winnie the Pooh. Your implication that EVERY Chinese person does, and the underlying implication you’ve made that ALL Chinese people look the same is hilariously offensive. You should maybe do some self reflection here mate.
People think XI JINGPANG looks like Winnie the Pooh
I just compared, I don’t see it. Do you have a good example?
What do you want me to show you exactly? You’re the one implying that all Chinese people look enough like Winnie the Pooh that to depict xi jingpang as such is racist. You want me to… give you an example of your point?
Damn you’re desperate.
Wow, you’re delusional.
It’s literally just the photo you replied to above. It’s not that deep.
I saw that after asking. So why would putting a character in a group of depictions fit this piece of art? It could make sense if Trump was a Cheeto, etc, but here it seems like an attempt to depict Xi as more cartoonish or outlandish than these western leaders. Weird. Almost like there’s still a goal to depict him as less human. Huh.
Notice how the characters are whites.
Don’t disagree with your intent behind the meme, but maybe its better to portray them as serial killers rather than mental health patients.
I’m liking what I’m hearing about this alternate universe… I want to go to there!
Where’s Bibi and the West Bank?
Dismissing them as “crazy” isn’t only ableist, it’s also counterproductive - they are literally some of the most powerful men on the planet, and they will keep doing everything within their means to achieve those goals, and worse, unless they are opposed.
All in all, a shit take.
Being in a position of power does not magically grant a person mental stability
However, lacking mental stability never kept people from gaining power.
Mentally ill people are significantly more likely to be the victims of violence and abuse than the perpetrators of it, and it isn’t mental illness that causes bigotry nor the exploitation and destruction of others for profit, it’s privilege, entitlement, unimaginable wealth, and an entire systemic framework of capitalism, white supremacy and so on.
Stop scapegoating mental illness and furthering the stigma against an already marginalised group of people (or since you don’t seem to care about that - giving dictators an out from accountability for their actions) because that’s easier for you than to critically think about the well established structures and systems that allow and even encourage exploiting and harming others.
You make good points. I should know better and I apologize. I suppose I needed a reality check.
Okay, but they ARE mentally ill and we can all plainly see it. Or at least, those of us who live with illness every day can plainly see it. Not only that, but the details of their pathologies are fucking relevant to all of our lives.
Mentally ill people are more likely to be the victims of violence and abuse, but the children of mentally ill people are tremendously more likely to experience violence, abuse, and neglect. And we are all the children of these fuckers right now. It’s not an analogy, it’s not a metaphor, and it not an ad hominem to draw attention to their pathologies. They genuinely need to be treated like dangerously disturbed people, because that is what they are.
Ableness isn’t one-dimensional ffs
You can be powerful, competent, and crazy at the same time dude.
Wow, look at all those people completely missing the point…
Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug…
