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    To be clear, it is overwhelmingly Westerners that wish to depict a Chinese man as a yellow bear.

    Really? Because all sources that I can find trace the origin to Xi’s visit to the Philippines back in 2017.

    http://hongkongfp.com/2018/11/20/filipinos-flood-social-media-winnie-pooh-memes-xi-jinping-visits-manila/

    https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2018/11/21/2003704655

    https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/11/21/1870392/winning-pooh-images-flood-social-media-xi-jinping-arrives

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        I missed that. Thanks. So does that meme from the west outweigh Xi’s entire Philippino welcoming and barrage of memes, prompting the banning of the word Pooh in Chinese media, justify your claim that it’s overwhelmingly Westerners?

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          “Pooh” is not banned in China. Taking down racist attacks against Xi happend prior to the visit to the Phillipines, read your own articles. Some users used it in the Phillipines to protest Xi because the racist caricatures were taken down, which was a western thing.

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            You evaded the question with semantics. Is one meme ‘overwhelmingly’ more than a nation of Philippinos?

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              I didn’t evade anything, you’ve been fundamentally wrong about reality several times. Secondly, it wasn’t “the nation of the Philippines,” it was some users, and the fact that the yellow bear caricature is overwhelmingly western does not mean non-western users don’t exist.

              You’re going to massive lengths to defend depicting a chinese man as a yellow bear.

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                Pooh having yellow fur is entirely irrelevant to any usage I’ve seen. I don’t think anyone is using it in a racist manner and if you examing its usage I think you’ll agree that it wouldn’t make sense for that to be the primary motivator; it’s posted because it’s censored, not for any racial motivation.

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                Again, you change the disagreement when you’re being disproven. You can’t support the claim that it’s ‘overwhelmingly’ Westerners, which is the point I challenged.

                Go ahead a re-read this thread rather than wasting both of our time changing your point to continue a needless debate.

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                  What did you “disprove?” You didn’t discredit anything, you just said non-western users of the Pooh caricature exist, not that they make up a majority of the users. This is intense debatelording to defend the use of racist caricatures.