🏴Akuji

“By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

Or at the very least @kaprap, make a similar thread in !asklemmy@lemmy.ml, it’ll give them a chance to speak for themselves.

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.

Why not indeed. Is there any cartoon panda (and another cartoon animal) that look somewhat like the lanky Obama and comparatively stubbier Xi that could have been used when the meme originated?

I might be naïve, but the color of Winnie’s… cloth, never seemed to be a factor to me. It’s the odd physical similarity between Xi and Pooh that’s striking; what with their roundness, debonair allure, large nose and whatnot.

Can’t say I’m surprised. My guy was on the frontline defending that fascist instance when the reddit exodus happened after all.