🏴Akuji

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  • 🏴AkujiOPtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldGG Bond is the new Pooh
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    3 days ago

    Honestly, that’s the goal. I had a brief exchange with resident marxist preacher, the one and only @Cowbee about Pooh, followed what’s been said in other threads, and concluded that, if it can be that easily interpreted as racist, the symbol needs to be changed.
    I’m not getting my hopes too high, but if I could contribute to trigger something about that…




  • Your right-wingers might be less straight-forward than mine 😅
    But I stress it: insulting Xi’s intelligence (and I think you have an idea of what kind of terms they used) was a strong factor for them, whereas, ironically enough in a way, using the yellow color of Pooh didn’t occur to them.


  • For having had the “pleasure” of discussing the topic with the kind of people you’re talking about, the kind of assholes that wouldn’t be shy about using racist slurs while looking you straight the in the eyes, the color was never brought up. It was all about the “censorship” on one hand (if he hates it, I’ll just do it more), and just a way to demean Xi by comparing him to a, let’s politely paraphrase, a simple-minded character on the other. It’s anecdotal, but I think that it’s nonetheless why this particular comparison broadly stuck in the end.