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Watch lemmy libs twist themselves on how to explain Winnie meme isnt racist (lemmy.ml)
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[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago

I'll try to provide a serious answer.

The difference is the long racist history of refering to Asian people as yellow skinned, phrases like "yellow peril" describing fears of Asian immigrants, so it's not a stretch to see how depicting a Chinese man with cartoonishly yellow skin is racist as fuck.

It would be like depicting a black politician as a monkey, it's difficult to defend something like that as just a joke against a specific person when there's such a racist connotation/history there.