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For at least ten years, the Chinese Communist Party has been abducting its overseas citizens on EU territory and forcibly returning them to China - violating the rule of law and public security in Europe - a new report finds.

Full report: https://safeguarddefenders.com/sites/default/files/pdf/Chasing%20Fox%20Hunt.pdf

Archived version: https://archive.ph/lEYCn

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Care to explain how calling a person of Asian ancestry Pooh Bear isn't incredibly racist?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Are you retarded or just being intentionally obtuse?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

It's the hexbear brigade. Both, with some state actors sprinkled in for flavour

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Take a look at my nick. Yes, that's a Chinese name. Are we doing the Jewish antisemitism thing?

As an Asian: I have never once met a single other Asian who thinks the pooh meme is racist. Even the Chinese pro-CCP crowd understands it's targeting Xinnie specifically. I've only ever heard the 'racist' take from white folks defending Xinnie. Thanks for your concern guys, but there's really no need

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I've met several Asian people, online and offline, who consider it racist to compare an Asian person to a yellow-colored cartoon character.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I'd like to see you make a meme of Obama and Tigger then...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

As an Asian: I have never once met a single other Asian who thinks the pooh meme is racist.

Extremely interesting that the people who say this always start with "As an Asian" and not "As a Chinese person". Being Asian doesn't give you any special experience on Sinophobia just as being a Frenchman or a Brit doesn't give a person any special experience on anti-Ziganism or European Islamaphobia (except maybe as a perpetrator).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Extremely interesting that the people who say this always start with “As an Asian” and not “As a Chinese person”.

Did the first sentence of my reply not already state that I'm Chinese? It's literally my nick!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

What do you mean, I often start conversations by saying 'As an Afro-Eurasian from America'.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ah yes, Winni the Pooh a well stand-in for Asian people.

Not at all a representation of one person, a certain Xi Jinping, who was the butt of Chinese memes comparing him to the bear, and further reinforced by his governments censorship of Winni the poor relating in the Streisand effect.

Think before you speak Hexbear chud.