• mommykink
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      151 year ago

      Yeah. As always, white-savior OP is whitewashing things and taking them outside of context to make everything about race

    • ReadFanon
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      101 year ago

      It’s strange that this concern for context only ever goes in one direction. Symbolism, like words, develop meaning through their usage.

      If I were to say that I ejaculated during intercourse with your wife last night, would you take that to be an insult or would you be dying on that same context hill that the verb to ejaculate used to refer to suddenly making a statement and that intercourse used to refer to having a discussion with someone?

      Probably not.

      Would you say that the swastika isn’t a Nazi symbol because it originated in Indo-European religious and cultural symbology?

      Maybe. I can’t speak for you.

      The origin of something doesn’t determine its usage.

    • Valbrandur
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      91 year ago

      It did, as a light-hearted joke comparing Xi and Obama walking side by side with a resembling image of Tiger and Pooh. Of course, westerners then proceeded to take it and turn it into their own distortion and elaborate some story about how China is banning Winnie the Pooh and that is why painting a chinese man yellow with photoshop is a sign of resistance against a government on the other side of the globe and totally not racist.

      It resembles a lot the same thing that happened with that image that floated the internet around a few years ago of Putin photoshoped as a stereotypically and comically flamboyant homosexual man, which is totally not homophobic even if the punchline is “he’s gay” because you can always make it up that the image is banned somewhere and thus is a sign of resistance and contains no reactionary sentiment behind.

        • Valbrandur
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          81 year ago

          I didn’t catch that (in my language he’s just called the name of the animal, translated). I am unsure if that was intentional or not, however.

        • ButtigiegMineralMap
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          81 year ago

          Yea that one is pretty easy to connect the dots, I think it’s safe to say people from China, the most populous country on Earth, can be racist, just as any individual from any other country can be.