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Because it seems like a racist charicature, no?
I could be corrected on this but as far as I'm aware, it's not a caricature of Chinese people or Asian people, it's specifically a caricature of Xi Jinping, one of the most powerful people in the world. In fact, on Forbes list in 2018, he is listed as the #1 most powerful person in the world.
So I don't think it's a question of race so much as a question of how far are we allowed to make fun of the most powerful people on the planet.
The charicature part is strictly about his race though.
would you be fine with a blackface of obama?
the joke seems to be entirely yellow squinty eyed bear looks like him
i'm fine with forums banning racial charicatures, even of people in power
none of his personality resembles pooh, it's just his race, if anything he's ruthlessly efficient
Not to split this but the real obvious parallel with Obama would be Tigger. I'm slightly surprised that didn't come up, because it's literally the same origin story.
Doesn't the initial image being paired with Tigger strike you as odd?
Almost as if there's two obviously racist things about the initial pairing?
Does it strike me as odd that there's an illustration of Pooh and Tigger together, two characters that are friends in the same fictional world?
No, it doesn't strike me as odd, can you explain that one to me? What's the history of racism in the Hundred Acre Wood that predates some world leaders with possibly fragile egos? And why is all the attention always on the Pooh half and never on the Tigger half?
The odd part is using a yellow character for the asian and tigger for the black person... for the obvious slur reason.
None of it has to do with the history of the hundred acre woods.