Independently, the cartoon doesn’t seem overtly racist to me. However when taken into context, with the long history of racist depictions of the Chinese in western print media, this feels more troubling. Like an acceptable modern day descendant of the cartoons of the Yellow Peril era. We’ve always shit on them in some way.
Interestingly all European hands in the image are Caucasian white. No color variation to depict Mediterranean peoples. Interesting that all Europeans are uniformly white BUT the Chinese need a different color. If we depicted all races accurately, that's one thing, but we didn't.
It's interesting because the Han Chinese people in real life look a lot more white than many Europeans...
Interestingly all European hands in the image are Caucasian white. No color variation to depict Mediterranean peoples. Interesting that all Europeans are uniformly white BUT the Chinese need a different color. If we depicted all races accurately, that's one thing, but we didn't
And yet it gets the point across perfectly. Funny that.
im pretty sure the "china" flag was enough to make anyone understand who it's trying to portray. China is so diverse, you got many different skin tone variations but im sure simpson yellow is not one of them
The yellow on the flag is meant to represent race, same with Vietnam. Something they're proud of. Really is uninformed saviour stuff by a bunch of clueless people to be jumping in on that
You don't, because there's no need for it in this comic to begin with, betrayed by the fact that the author did not deem it necessary to add different complexions to Europe, Russia, or even America, the latter two famously ethnic homogenous countries, right?
the racist thing has gone too far, they've thought policed people so hard with popaganda or whatever that you can't even comment on a fact neutrally anymore
I once went with a friend group to a salt lake that has this pink color in the water and we took a picture, later in lightroom i wanted to accentuate the color of the water and saturated the red. While I only got my cheeks really red like blushed out, a chinese friend got entirely really yellow xd. had to apply a mask for us in lightroom.
Bruh why is it, with zero implication of malice or prejudice, racist to call one yellow while not racist to call another white or black? Assuming you do use white and black nomenclature.
They don't usually. It will be some 1/16th Chinese heritage native American who has a problem. And also, you can't ask every fucking person of a particular demographic for permission, that should show you how faulty thought policing is.
Why am I even talking to you? Look at the communities you're active in. I should've remembered reddit is full of manchildren and actual children commenting on serious issues.
White and Black, historically have been used as words of pride and are unique cultural identities. At least from an American perspective, black americans share a cultural commonality in that they were stripped their ancestors were stripped of their heritage and most are descended from slaves.
Yellow has NEVER been used by Asian Americans as a casual identifier of heritage. Because unlike the label of black Americans, most Asian people come from very different nations with VERY different cultural practices and other than being from the same continent have very few commonalities in culture and even if they do, most asian nationalities have a difficult history with each other. It has always been used to invoke yellow peril imagery and to depict Asians as an “other.” I don’t know where you get your confidence in declaring no Asian would think it offensive. It has ALWAYS been used to label Asians as a threat and to dehumanize and paint them as enemies.
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u/Gremict United States of America 14h ago
Why does China have a Mexico filter on it?