😱 the spectre of Communism?!

Yep, I remember that one as it came out. Super silly.

Half right, the Russian Federation abandoned Socialism with the dissolution of the USSR. The PRC hasn’t achieved Communism yet, but have a Socialist Market Economy and are run along Marxist-Leninist analysis. It isn’t correct to call the PRC an “oligarchy” either, China Has Billionaires but they are subservient to the CPC, which has over 96 million people and functions in a “top down, from the bottom up” fashion. Those at the top of the CPC, in the NPC, are largely educated non-bourgeoisie.

The thing with the shirt is that it places greater emphasis on the visuals. If we accept that there’s in some cases a connection to the shirt, we can also accept that that means there is certainly connection to the yellow bear. “Yellowface” is already a known concept.

Fair enough. However, I think it’s worth pointing out that the most vocal users of such iconography, when confronted with even the possibility that it may in fact be racist to depict a chinese man as a yellow bear (curiously, usually depicted wearing a red shirt, like the flag of the PRC), they tie themselves into frothing logical pretzels to defend their usage, rather than shifting to any other clearly non-racist yet still insulting caricature.

Note: absolutely not saying the author of Pooh was making anti-China iconography way back when, I am pointing out modern usage.

How have you seen the image being used in a manner that makes other explanations more likely?

I think you’re tying yourself into a logical pretzel here, are you going to tell me blackface isn’t racist because nearly nobody has that pure black use in minstrel shows? This seems like incredible displays of mental gymnastics, rather than taking occams razor.

I don’t think it’s likely that those were the intentions. They don’t visually stand out, yet the visual comparisons remain.

It’s my opinion that “mannerisms” don’t really hold much weight, same with “intelligence.” The remaining two are weight and color, and there’s absolutely nothing saying it can’t be both.

No idea, as far as I know taglines just get added mysteriously

That’s a banger

You’re also not, presumably, a Chinese citizen, who know better how their own internet works. Why would you immediately jump to doing what you know?

No, not if, I asked you why.

My point is that there is no such thing as a truly “free” internet, whether it be by corporations or governments. You might as well be defending unicorns.

Why do you think it was censored?

Really?! Unsurprising, but that makes the entire thing even worse.

Which world news? Makes a big difference.

I’m aware that it’s China that takes down the racist caricatures. The meme started more innocently, with Pooh being Xi and Tigger being Obama. This turned into western users overwhelmingly sticking with Xi as Pooh. The origins and what stuck are different entirely in intent and character.

Me too!

What did you “disprove?” You didn’t discredit anything, you just said non-western users of the Pooh caricature exist, not that they make up a majority of the users. This is intense debatelording to defend the use of racist caricatures.