it is not “China” represented in the meme, but a stereotypical Chinese person
A person from a different country who has reached out in an English DM saying “your parcel will arrive tomorrow”, aka a scammer.
The joke is obviously painted this way, but you are intentionally misunderstanding so you can attack/dismiss the poster as a racist/fascist/Nazi, a very common leftist playbook technique to claim moral high ground.
I fully understand that the racist caricature of a Chinese person presented in this meme is a scammer, that’s one of the stereotypes that makes it a racist caricature.
If someone posted a meme with a Jewish “happy merchant” scamming people, would you read that as being ok because it’s about “scammers?” Or would you recognize that invoking the stereotype of Jews being scammers is racist? Especially when presented in the context of other racial stereotypes. Would you treat me calling it out as “intentionally misunderstanding to claim the moral high ground?” Or is it that depicting Chinese people as scammers is more acceptable than doing the same with other races?
The joke is obviously painted this way, but you are intentionally misunderstanding so you can attack/dismiss the poster as a racist/fascist/Nazi, a very common leftist playbook technique to claim moral high ground.
I didn’t misunderstand shit. Calling out racism is also a very common leftist playbook technique to… call out racism. Do you recognize that racism is a thing that exists and should be called out?
A person from a different country who has reached out in an English DM saying “your parcel will arrive tomorrow”, aka a scammer.
The joke is obviously painted this way, but you are intentionally misunderstanding so you can attack/dismiss the poster as a racist/fascist/Nazi, a very common leftist playbook technique to claim moral high ground.
I fully understand that the racist caricature of a Chinese person presented in this meme is a scammer, that’s one of the stereotypes that makes it a racist caricature.
If someone posted a meme with a Jewish “happy merchant” scamming people, would you read that as being ok because it’s about “scammers?” Or would you recognize that invoking the stereotype of Jews being scammers is racist? Especially when presented in the context of other racial stereotypes. Would you treat me calling it out as “intentionally misunderstanding to claim the moral high ground?” Or is it that depicting Chinese people as scammers is more acceptable than doing the same with other races?
I didn’t misunderstand shit. Calling out racism is also a very common leftist playbook technique to… call out racism. Do you recognize that racism is a thing that exists and should be called out?