Banned from memes.ml for posting image of Xinnie the Pooh in a discussion of how it's only western propaganda to claim it's banned in China?

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Banned from memes.ml for posting image of Xinnie the Pooh in a discussion of how it's only western propaganda to claim it's banned in China?

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there is a long history of anti-China movements

Hmm I wonder why

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It is probably racism

I'm sure Taiwan hates asians

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“If you do not accept the Han Chinese settler colonial ethnostate, you are a sinophobe.”

Is the exact same logic as “If you do not accept the Jewish Zionist settler colonial ethnostate, you are anti-semetic”.

Criticising a state project does not equal criticism of the ethnic group in it. This is bad faith false equivalence used by MLs.

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.ml mods being hardcore tankies? Impossible

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And water makes things wet? Who'da thunk?

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Yes. It's propaganda that it's only banned in China.

It's also banned in tankie circles.

Semantics.

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Looks like I just got a new meme - thanks OP!

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I don’t think that lends truth to the theory that it’s illegal. No doubt the government suppresses any spread of the meme though.

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It's one of those situations where making a point to try and suppress it has only drawn sooo much more attention to it than it every would have received otherwise. Like if it had just been left alone, it never would have caught on as a "thing."

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the good ol' Streissand Effect

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The opposite imo, it would have caught on but I think it would generally have been seen as positive. I mean, Pooh is a nice guy, tries his best to help his friends, what's not to like? He even has a red shirt, totally on brand right out of the box.

Complete own-goal trying to suppress it.

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Why China censors banned Winnie the Pooh

Here the president is Mr Grey. He doesn't do silly things; he has no quirky elements; he makes no mistakes and that is why he is above the population and unable to be questioned.

"This proves to the world I'm no silly boi!"

"Uhh, sir, do you think that maybe this might just draw attention..."

"DON'T YOU DARE QUESTION ME!"

Sounds like something a silly boy would say, IMO.

The previous Chinese Leader Hu Jintao had a catchphrase of "promoting a harmonious society" or, in Chinese, hexie 和谐.

Bloggers started to refer to being censored as having been "harmonised" - bei hexie le 被和谐了 - but, by changing the tones in Chinese or changing the characters, you can fudge the meaning. So another hexie is river crab 河蟹。In other words, when you see an image of a river crab on the internet in China, it is likely to be a reference to something having been censored.

Hmm didn't know that.

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I mean it's from Wikipedia but it's pretty clear it's only being censored in instances where pooh is used as a stand in for Xi. Although that is still bad it's a little more nuanced than "China banned Pooh."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_in_China

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Right but it's also a little more nuanced than claiming it's just western propaganda/not really a thing in China. Seems like it's been "a thing" for nearly a decade.

This game in Taiwan had a Xinnie reference back in 2019.

Taiwan game 'Devotion' upsets China with Winnie the Pooh reference

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