Obviously, Xi is cool, but I wish people would leave Winnie the Pooh out of this. Pooh is happy and nice and pure, and takes me back to a simpler time in my life when I was a kid and things didn't fucking matter. Watch Pooh get stuck in Rabbit's door and tell me that shit isn't hilarious, no matter how old you are. I'm fucking 31 and still loved even the latest Pooh movie from like 2011.
Tell them it's racist to compare a Chinese man to a yellow cartoon character
John Oliver popularized it so it's cool and in fact they still show Xi with a honey jar in the show intro.
every person I've caught doing the Winnie the Pooh thing will also openly declare their hatred of Chinese people so this wouldn't quite work out so well for me
Have you seen the Soviet version of Winnie the Pooh? It's absolutely surreal.
Considering Pooh is good-natured, and the Americans don't like Xi, so they compare Xi and Pooh, what does that say about the Americans?
they're convinced Xi Jinping has a big red light on his desk that alerts him every time he's called Winnie the Pooh and then he gets personally offended. he then stomps around comically and steam comes out of his ears
they want some imagined power over him in spite of their actual powerlessness
He's also the only face of the Chinese state apparatus they know. It's a lot more complex to criticize 1.4 billion people for having their own political agendas, so they just simplify that by making Xi Jinping personally in charge of all Chinese political ideology
Don't worry, Winnie the Pooh is a very popular franchise in China as well.
We love our yellow bears, don't we, folks?
it's my understanding that Chinese political culture tends to look down on caricature, positive or negative
If Chinese people cared about what Redditors thought about them maybe. But it's pretty clear that Western perceptions of China are less and less relevant as China continues to develop.
They have buses literally with whinnie the Pooh’s face in China. It’s not illegal.
Winnie the Pooh was one of those kids things like The Smurfs and Franklin and stuff that I never liked. Nothing ever happens and there's no stakes at all not was it trying to teach me stuff to make up for it.
