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Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian?
(lemmy.nz)
I just realised, I can't post anything on lemmy.ml
So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there's a new moderator.
All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned
That's cool, I just wanted to be clear on how I'm trying to interact - it's easy to miscommunicate on the internet!
My issues with "Xi as Winnie the Pooh" center around the way it's presented in the Western internet. Xi is often depicted with harshly yellow skin, and with comically slanted eyes.
There's clearly a commonality between how racist caricatures of Chinese people have been created historically, like this:
https://thomasnastcartoons.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/the-coming-man-20-may-18811.jpg
https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/ckjoq7/xinnie_the_pooh_street_art_mural/ (sure, it's not a real mural, but it was upvoted 400+ times)