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Apparently, bringing up China being authoritarian is now "bigotry". Makes sense now all those comments from .ml users that most people banned from .ml are for bigotry.

"Bigotry" = Anything negative about China or Russia now

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[-] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 60 points 2 months ago

There is no authoritarianism in Ba Sing Sei

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

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[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 17 points 2 months ago

Apparently, bringing up China being authoritarian is now "bigotry".

No way!

Oh wait, it's on Lemmy.ml, yeah, carry on then! /s :-P

[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 months ago

BPR if you were aware of the instance and its reputation. PTB otherwise. Getting a ban from ML for this sort of thing is a something of a right of passage I think lol.

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

You know the crazy thing? They'll follow you around for months afterwards as well.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

What's the 'whinnie the pooh thing'?

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 43 points 2 months ago

It became a meme to depict Xi Jinping as Winnie the Pooh, and China / Xi's response was to completely ban all depictions or mentions of Winnie the Pooh.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xi-jinping-winnie-the-pooh-comparisons

There are many, many other words and phrases that just get scrubbed from any online post... these are called 'Sensitive Words'.

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 2 months ago
[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 19 points 2 months ago

Chinese meme where they compared him to Winni, he cracked down it, the west loved it and adopted it too.

Tankies try to say it’s racist as if it represents all Asians and not just Xi personally, and it originated from China, so it’s doubly not about his ethnicity.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

At some point Xi got associated with Winnie the Pooh and imagery of it (usually of Winnie's face being "morphed" into Xi's face) became censored/banned in China

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Because he looks a lot like Winnie the Pooh. The shape of his face and body, his gait, his smile, it's really uncanny.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 17 points 2 months ago

I once saw a comment on Hexbear about it being racist to call Xi Winnie the Pooh. I got confused and asked why would that be racist. I got laughed at for not seeing that he's clearly called that because Pooh is yellow, which is also a derogatory term for asians. And this never even crossed my mind until then, I always assumed he's called that cause he literally looks like Pooh and wears red (figuratively). Are they reaching or am I wrong?

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 12 points 2 months ago

More than just reaching, they're witch hunting.

See, a lot of muppets have that nasty tendency to point to random people or things, and claim that they're from a despicable group: racists, transphobes, paedophiles, so goes on ("the witches").

And those muppets do this through insane troll logic, zero due diligence, making shit up = assuming on the spot, Chewbacca defence, dogpiling, distorting what you said, so goes on. (And if you correctly highlight that there are no witches there, they'll start screeching "WHY ARE YOU DEFENDING WITCHES?")

That's on the whole internet, mind you. And even offline. But for some reason, it's really common among Hexbear users. And this Xi = Pooh meme is a prime example of that; they want to point people using this meme and scream "WAAAH, YOU'RE RACIST!", even if the bloody meme was created by Chinese people, and the criticism is not really related to race. Later they scream "DONE, WE DID IT ~~REDDIT~~ HEXBEAR, WE DEFEATED RACISM! EDIT WOW THANKS FOR THE ~~GOLD~~ PIG POOP BALLS, KIND STRANGER!"

I'm fairly certain that they're full of GoOd InTeNtIoNs when they do this. And they should be paving Hell with those intentions because they're making things worse for every bloody body, except the witches - that now got a believable cover: "nooo, I'm no witch, they're just reaching. BTW let's fly on a broom together."

[Sorry for the wall of text.]

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

Paulie

Long comments*.

Happy 🍰 day.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago
[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Obama is not orange or striped. It makes no sense

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't have put that together, either. Winnie the Pooh is yellowish brown.

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If that person on hexbear has yellow poo they ought to see a doctor

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 2 months ago

proper nomenclature when referring to the dear leader is shepooh, thanks.

[-] helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 12 points 2 months ago

Apparently, bringing up China being authoritarian is now “bigotry”.

I've noticed this lately in a lot of communities I'm in, most of which that have nothing to do with politics and are centered around Linux/technology. Why are people suddenly getting personally hurt over criticism against their government? Thats the wildest thing I've ever seen, and for some reason it's becoming more of a thing.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 17 points 2 months ago

It's a thing on lemmy.ml communities, not so much elsewhere

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The funny thing is, it's not even their government. They're defending an idealized version that only exists in their heads. As far as I can tell, the primary developers are European.

[-] xChronoZerox@lemmy.today 0 points 2 months ago

It's So many people 😮‍💨 their entire personalities revolve around politics these days

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago

I gotta say, it's really gracious of the mod to only ban you for 3 months. Usually it's a perma-ban.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Where do you check such things? So where do you find this?

[-] SoftTeeth@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

You have to go to the mod logs of each instance and search for your username.

The system is setup so you are shadowbaned until you figure it out yourself.

The mods of blahaj constantly lurk other instances banning everyone they don't like even if they didn't post there.

I'm sure there are plenty of other pathetic mods in the fediverse.

[-] ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

is it a shadow ban? i think the last time my comment showed up with a little crossed out avatar.

my guess was that this was to indicate that .ml banned me, however they cannot stop me from posting as i am on a different instance. just probably not many ppl seeing the comment.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

Holy shait I have a TON of bans on .ml without ever posting anything there, 18 just on one day 17 days ago!

[-] kuato@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You did comment there. You commented apologia for the Israeli genocidal settler-colonial state's apartheid, specifically a physical apartheid wall. And your comment was removed, and you were site banned for... looks like 45-ish days.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world -5 points 2 months ago

Ah interesting, did not notice that was on .ml. But this topic is generally a big No-Go on Lemmy, no discussion possible. I tend to avoid it now.

[-] kuato@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

If you want to defend Zionism, you'll have better luck on corporate social media, which are generally aligned with US foreign policy. Lemmy was created specifically as an alternative to that.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[-] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oooh this is fun, apparently my posts about bicyclists going the wrong way down streets at night without lights while wearing black were misinformation, regardless of seeing another 3 in the last week alone.

Mods are funny little rentacops aren't they

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago
[-] pelikan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

50% YDI / 50% PTB

YDI, as these comments were obviously bad faith trolling with the sole purpose of starting flame war. None of the comments in the screenshot can be considered a valuable contribution to the discussion in the technology community.

PTB, for made up "bigotry" as a reason for the ban. If they had banned you for trolling, it would have been 100% YDI.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago
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