To Mods: I feel like this is not “political enough” for political memes… so… um… …

  • PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Imagine being so racist and unfunny that even politicalmemes wouldn’t let you post. Proud day for you and your family, dipshit

      • OpenStars@piefed.social
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        3 months ago

        “<word that people have negative connotations about> is when you don’t like <thing that I kinda like>”

        - manipulative people for whom facts mean even less than consent

      • ShoeThrower@lemmy.zip
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        3 months ago

        So are we just going to ignore the bit about “Chinese families” then? Seems like a rather broad racial generalization, and the poster is quite clearly implying their belief in some negative stereotype.

        Your response doesn’t even make sense, unless you are proposing that all “Chinese families” are actually CCP officials?

        • PugJesus@piefed.social
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          3 months ago

          The poster is Chinese, and regularly writes about struggling with cultural expectations with regards to traditional Chinese familial norms. If I wrote that white American family cultural norms were fucked, as a partly-white American, would that make me racist? Not only that, but families are placed at the midpoint, not the fucked-up ‘end’ of the drawing.

          • ShoeThrower@lemmy.zip
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            3 months ago

            Yeah, everyone seeing this knows the poster’s heritage, favorite food, and post address.

            There is a difference between “Chinese families” and “my Chinese family”. Maybe you would understand if “Chinese” was replaced with “Black”.

            It’s just plain bigotry.

        • stickly@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          The Chinese families bit is most likely a reference to widespread, problematic family dynamics stemming from shared social pressures in China. Just in living memory, a household might have gone through: a revolution, the cultural revolution, famine, rapid urbanization, one child policy, economic booms, economic bubbles, etc…

          That will leave any family pretty fucked up, though it may not be universally bad (hence, only the middle of the horse). In the future, we’ll probably see similar echoes of trauma from the USA’s current historical flashpoint.

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      3 months ago

      If you look at OP’s history they’re something who clearly has had a tumultuous experience as an American who immigrated from China. Their relationship with their country of birth, their family, and their experiences with racialization and their heritage are something they’re clearly struggling with and processing. Calling them racist isn’t constructive to them or the community.