To Mods: I feel like this is not “political enough” for political memes… so… um… …

  • ShoeThrower@lemmy.zip
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    23 hours ago

    So are we just going to ignore the bit about “Chinese families” then? Seems like a rather broad racial generalization, and the poster is quite clearly implying their belief in some negative stereotype.

    Your response doesn’t even make sense, unless you are proposing that all “Chinese families” are actually CCP officials?

    • PugJesus@piefed.social
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      15 hours ago

      The poster is Chinese, and regularly writes about struggling with cultural expectations with regards to traditional Chinese familial norms. If I wrote that white American family cultural norms were fucked, as a partly-white American, would that make me racist? Not only that, but families are placed at the midpoint, not the fucked-up ‘end’ of the drawing.

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        2 hours ago

        Yeah, everyone seeing this knows the poster’s heritage, favorite food, and post address.

        There is a difference between “Chinese families” and “my Chinese family”. Maybe you would understand if “Chinese” was replaced with “Black”.

        It’s just plain bigotry.

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      20 hours ago

      The Chinese families bit is most likely a reference to widespread, problematic family dynamics stemming from shared social pressures in China. Just in living memory, a household might have gone through: a revolution, the cultural revolution, famine, rapid urbanization, one child policy, economic booms, economic bubbles, etc…

      That will leave any family pretty fucked up, though it may not be universally bad (hence, only the middle of the horse). In the future, we’ll probably see similar echoes of trauma from the USA’s current historical flashpoint.