2 months for joking about Pooh Bear in .ml's memes

Absolutely no jokery allowed it seems XD

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They believe because pooh is yellow in color they it aligns with racist stereotypes about Asians. They refuse to accept the origin of the meme was xi and Obama walking in a fashion just like pooh and Tigger.
But Obama is not a tiger, is not orange. The meme has nothing to do with yellow.
- You got me curious about the origins of this. I'm pretty sure this image of Pooh and Tigger was made after the photo was taken, but it does seem to illustrate the point pretty well.
  
  what is the tiger's name?
  
  Wow. Maybe you get the n-word pass as well as the yellowface pass then.
  Chinese people didn’t twist that one cute meme of Obama & Xi into an endless stream of Xing Xong Xi Man Bad memes, Western chauvinists did.
- And the meme originates from China. Why would the Chinese be racist against themselves? It really makes zero sense.
  
  .ml be like
  If you say anything bad about China, you're racist
  If you say anything bad about Russia, you're russophobic
  If you say anything good about the US, you're an imperialist
  
  Because... Rule 1! REEEEE!
- Thanks for the context

woe, rule 1 upon ye
- No bigotry.
  The party defines bigotry as insinuation the party is not the saviour of the people.
  
  Chinese companies exploit workers and China has a terrible record on workers rights, but the working class has the political power in China!
  
  not bootlicking is counterrevolutionary!

Someone seriously needs to make a community called “Rule 1” that specifically calls their shit out.
It can either be a place to document the abusive admins on .ml (I say admins and not mods because it seems from the logs, the mods are powerless pawns that are overridden by the authoritarian admins all the time there)
Or it can be a parody community designed to illustrate the absurdity of admin abuse.
(I’ll help mod it if someone makes one, but I ain’t creating that shit. WAY too heady for me. lol)
- "Authoritarian admins"????
  That's it, banned, Rule 1
- !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
  !fediverselore@lemmy.ca
  This one, !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
  There's surely way more places for people to post such content, like I see it on 196 a lot as well.
  Also, while it is indeed the admins that mass ban people from communities that they've never even heard of across the entire instance, the mods are not entirely unknown to Lemmy users themselves. There are many famous stories, such as the one who told a user that he wanted to kill them, bc they posted a screenshot of two people kissing in some kind of dating game claiming that it was "triggering". Those mods are protected by those admins. In turn, nobody else across the Fediverse is protected from either those mods or especially those admins.
  This is their software, and we are on their platform, always remember.
  
  I meant a community that specifically calls out the mystery surrounding their vague .ml “Rule 1” removals.
  And while .ml is their domain to moderate how they chose, any other instance is feee to host a community that calls out their authoritarian rigidity.
  They have domain over their own shithole of an instance- not any of the others. So it’s not their anything. Ad If they wanted that level of control over it- to be able to dictate what others can and can’t do outside of their prison, they should have emulated their authoritarian ideology and locked it down.
  It’s too bad they underestimated the number of people capable of independent thinking.
- I'd argue that a community named Rule 1 should also include non tanky instance mod/admin actions when they are egregiously bad.
  
  Oh absolutely.

Pff amateur. I got an instance wide permaban for "dear winnie"

It’s a lame joke but I don’t see why it should be banned
- because they are beholden to china… if you say anything bad about china, or anything that china officially bans, you get banned for racism against asians….
- Because it seems like a racist charicature, no?
  
  No it doesn't.
  We should be allowed to mock our leaders, especially the dictators
  
  No. The Chinese people were specifically comparing Xi Jinping to Winnie The Pooh before the term was banned.
  
  Stop making things up.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_in_China
  
  The joke was started by the Chinese on WeChat. No, it doesn't seem racist, unless you mean it's racist to appropriate Chinese memes?
  
  This is not a mockery of his race.
  This is a mockery of his fragile ego that is apparently hurt by such a joke.
  
  How?
  
  No.
  
  I could be corrected on this but as far as I'm aware, it's not a caricature of Chinese people or Asian people, it's specifically a caricature of Xi Jinping, one of the most powerful people in the world. In fact, on Forbes list in 2018, he is listed as the #1 most powerful person in the world.
  So I don't think it's a question of race so much as a question of how far are we allowed to make fun of the most powerful people on the planet.

I'm surprised it is only temporary. Looking at the mod log, getting a temp ban or a warning are the rarest forms of mod actions taken across all of Lemmy.
- ML generally don't do perma bans

Lol that's a ~~paddlin~~ bigotry
Until .world gets around to finishing defed'ing from the last of the Tankie Triad, best we can do is avoid generating anything on .ml. No comments, posts or upvotes. If it's a non-tankie post cross post it to the closest relevant non-.ml community
- That’s exactly what I do. I refuse to post anything or interact with anything created for, or in that shithole.
- Please do. Dealing with you right wing bigots is as annoying as visiting reddit is now that you people ruined that site.
  
  Thanks I needed a good laugh this morning! LMAO I'm no right-wing in any sense of the word, I just don't suck the dick of authoritarian regimes like you and other Tankies do. The irony here is that you Tankies are closer to right-wingers because of your authoritarian tendencies. See: Stethoscope theory
  Oh also, you forgot to log into your .ml account because nobody is calling for defed from SJW lolol you're still in your "I'm totally from China" week old account LMAO
  
  Your comment got me into a really neat rabbit hole about censorship in China, thank you!
  I started here:
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_in_China
  And got to all sorts of sad and interesting places.

You now understand correctly - you FAAFO on that instance. Best to steer clear of it.

At this point I'm kinda amazed we don't do the Reddit thing of "Your account briefly browsed a part of the site that was rumored to be evil because of current events that you don't even know anything about yet, so we permanently banned you and are adding you to a list of Far Right sympathizers"
And relieved, it's too easy to become the "villain" nowadays, Cancel Culture would be fine if it didn't have the same problem as the Death Penalty...
Too many innocents being judged guilty not by evidence, but by mob mentalities.
- Welcome to the internet
  
  have a look around
  
  Have a look around

Banned for posting cringe.

People making racist "jokes" should be banned permanently tbh
- I don't buy the racist connection. This whole thing started on Chinese social media. Westerners didn't start saying it until the CCP got butthurt and banned the character entirely.
  
  I've always thought it meant xi jinping. One person. Is it because he happens to be Chinese that it becomes racist?
  
  It's just being offended for the Chinese people, with no regard to what the Chinese people actually think. Typical.
- Can you explain how the joke is racist?

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