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I've read the wiki page, but thanks for linking it again. The fact that the meme originated in China, but spread like wildfire in the west, needs to be examined. Xi Jinping is incredibly popular in China, legitimately so. A picture comparing Xi to Winnie and Obama to Tigger showed up online. There wasn't mass protest against Xi Jinping or anything.
What then exploded was western usage of the meme, beyond its origins, and in a new context. Largely among the anti-communist right, vile depictions and distortions of Xi Jinping began to take place, creating a racialized caricature. By this point the meme faded away near entirely in China, and instead became a symbol of hatred towards Xi Jinping in particular and the PRC in general in the west.
The western obsession with depicting Xi Jinping as a yellow bear is what is racist, and hiding behind the fact that the first iteration of the meme came from China, before it became distorted by the west, is a "get out of jail free" card for racists. It isn't only communists that can correctly identify this, marginalized groups that have been caricaturized by westerners can also see this easily.
You sound like you have the privilege of being white and not having to deal with racism. Being anti-communist and being racist tend to have much overlap. I have been racially abused and heard more orientalist nonsense then you could even imagine during my brief stint on Reddit and from many people from anti-communist instances such as the one you post from.
Saying you don't think there's a major overlap between anti-communists and racists and then following that up directly with a racist jab is enlightening.
No but it is a language with specific ties to a race/ethnic group(s)/peoples which faces much discrimination from the global hegemon which you are intent on reinforcing and defending so that you can continue to laugh at/use a racialised meme to disparage our government and our choices there in.
You know so little about China but you speak with such authority it's pretty amazing. Non mandarin speakers are not oppressed it is simply the state language used to make administration easier. If you ever went to a large minority area you would see all the signs in both the local and common language. Speaking to me about how my government is secretly oppressing me (rural minority Chinese) is white saviour nonsense.
I understand now that you're a hate the government not the people white saviour type who doesn't care about the fact our government is democratically elected and widely supported. You're just finding new ways to be disparaging and racist. Please block me you racist cracker.
I said "again" as in I had seen it before and you gave me a chance to revisit it and confirm I'm correct.
As for Statesians loving to shit on communism, this is correct. Statesians are also wildly racist, and usually combine the two. Orientalism runs deep, and as such depictions of Eastern socialism usually involve deep degrees of racial caricature. Other vile memes involve depicting Chinese people as "bugmen" and as a "hive-mind," which combines racist views of Asians with anti-communism. I'm sure you know this, you're just refusing to see it because it's uncomfortable to admit after you defended a racist caricature.
If you just learned about why Chinese people view the meme as racist, why not just change your views? Is your anti-communist thrill so great as to prevent you from growing as a person? That's a rhetorical question, you don't need to answer. I just recommend you reflect, rather than deflect.
No bad-faith on my part, I explained exactly what I meant by saying you linked it for me again. Again, meaning it has been linked for me many times by different people, not you in particular. This is grammatically correct, but you're using it as a springboard to pretend I can't speak English well or that I'm bad-faith.
As for the US, it's a settler-colonial, genocidal empire. It is far more racist than China, which has strong minority protections. This is you, again, being orientalist and revealing your racism. For example, you make false claims of genocide towards Uyghur peoples.
The best and most comprehensive resource I have seen so far is Qiao Collective's Xinjiang: A Resource and Report Compilation. Qiao Collective is a group of Chinese diaspora living in the west, and they compiled an extremely comprehensive write-up of the entire background of the events, the timeline of reports, and real and fake claims. The majority of their sourcing is western, and they cite official Chinese government writing and white papers when relevant. Uyghur culture is preserved.
I also recommend reading the UN report as well as (especially) China's response to it, which eclipses it in size and detail. These are the most relevant accusations and responses without delving into straight up fantasy like Adrian Zenz, Christian nationalist and professional propagandist for the Victims of Communism Foundation, does. Zenz' work has been thoroughly discredited, yet is supported by western media for its utility in fearmongering. An example is lying about 8.7% of new IUDs as 80%, to back up claims of "forced sterilization," from this chart:
The vast majority of the population supports their government, actually, because they are treated very well. Over 90% of the population supports the CPC. NIRA data's latest polling found China to be one of the more comprehensively democratic countries in the world as seen by its own population:
In other words, you're digging a deeper and deeper hole for yourself and doubling down on your orientalist views. It isn't enough for you to defend racist caricatures, you have to project the undeniable racism of the US Empire onto China, using your orientalist views as reason to believe atrocity propaganda.
I never argued in bad faith, but it's clear that you never intended on good faith discussion when you can't even handle basic, factual evidence disproving your orientalist views. Blocking me and running after failing to confront your misconceptions is sad.
Returning to your enjoyment of racist memes, you specifically said you enjoy it because it pisses off communists. The reason it pisses off communists is the same as why racialized caricatures are censored in China: they are racist.
In other words, you enjoy the rage that comes from those disgusted by racism, and continue to perpetuate that racism because of your enjoyment of it. Even if you aren't aware of the racist implications (somehow), you're still just as guilty for deliberately perpetuating it without investigating why it offends people.