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It was the fucking people in China making the comparison! Come on. You keep ignoring this in order to just say westerners are evil. That's why bringing up western stuff doesn't matter because the conversation isn't about any of that. It's about the comparison of President Xi to Pooh Bear. You just keep swerving around trying to hit a different target because the actual conversation doesn't work in your favor.
Clean, meaning morally, no he isn't. Kind, not so much. He presents as if he's a perfect story book character, like Pooh Bear (hence the comparison), but he wouldn't still be in power if this were the case. The people in China recognize this, which is why they started the comparison. It spread to the west because of the outsized response to it. It's the Streisand Effect. It was funny how insulted he was by this that it started being banned, so it spread because his fragile ego couldn't handle it.
Is it fat-phobic? Probably. Is it racist? Hell no. It's just making fun of someone with a fragile ego with someone he's made public that he's insulted by. Implying it's racist because Pooh Bear is yellow is just trying to shut it up by making shit up. It has nothing to do with that. It's just what the Chinese picked to make fun of him with.
Ignoring? I literally addressed that in my previous comment. I'm not gonna repeat myself. And I'm not saying westerners are evil. As much as I hate using these moral terms like good, bad and evil, if I were to use it it would be to say that the west is evil, not the westerners.
Yeah yeah, keep changing the meaning of words to only fit how you see it on your head. And really? He's still in power because he presents himself as "clean and kind"? Like, really? First you say he's a dictator, now he's only still in power because se presents himself well. Which one is it? And that aside, do you really believe he's only in power because he presents himself well? Like, really?
A single meme is not representative of the will of the Chinese people. By this logic I can say the USians are nazi because of how much Pepe exploded in popularity. It's beyond silly.
First of all, Winnie the Pooh was never banned in China, it is still a very popular character there.
Second of all, you lack understanding of how Chinese society works. China, and some other asian countries do not simply speak ill of their leaders and representatives. It's a cultural thing. Which is not to say that they don't criticize them, they do, but it is completely different than the rest of the world.
And finally third, if people started representing Obama with the image of a gorilla, let's say, from Tarzan. Wouldn't that be racist? Wouldn't that be censored and ban worth in most places? So stop with the double standard bullshit. Just realize you're racist against asians and do some introspection.
For everything else you said I already have replied previously.
You're incredibly unserious and I'm not losing my time engaging with you any further.
I'm done. You keep changing my words.