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Yeah and that meme had Obama as "tigger". Wonder why...
The meme starting in China doesn't mean much. Pretty sure Chinese people can make racist memes too.
Would you be comfortable calling Obama a tigger? You realize in a bar that would get you beat up right?
The original context for Xi being Pooh probably wasn't racist either, unless there's a similar connotation to yellow skin in Chinese culture. Therefore you could also dismiss the yellowface concerns because the original meme wasn't meant to be racist.
Of course we shouldn't do this, and instead accept that the meme is now racist because it's mainly used by Westerners who are well aware of the racist implications.
No, but there a good chance there is one drunk one that would.
Who's in Paris? It isn't for us to say
When you are talking about the hundred acre wood in a bar what do you call him? Tiao Tiao Hu?
I am not taking to the person who invented the meme. I am talking to you.
I don't wanna get all streamer about it but I think you could say numur in a gamer way
Yeah racists hate deniability, we all know they definitely don't love to play their little "teehee you're overreacting" games. OK sign anyone?