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traditional racist caricatures of Chinese people Is it racist to depict a citizen of a country in that country’s traditional national garb? Simplified to carto

traditional racist caricatures of Chinese people Is it racist to depict a citizen of a country in that country’s traditional national garb? Simplified to cartoon form for children? I guarantee no actual Chinese are offended by this.

read_if_gay_ 6y ago
Am chinese, am not offended by this. I think it's cute in fact. Yes, N=1 but in general there's a valid point here. It is insane how often people are getting offended on behalf of others nowadays.
- tablespoon 6y ago
  > Am chinese, am not offended by this. I think it's cute in fact. Yes, N=1 but in general there's a valid point here. It is insane how often people are getting offended on behalf of others nowadays. Chinese-born or American-born? My guess is that American-born Chinese would be more likely to be offended, because they've been acculturated to the American culture around this kind of offense, and a lot of it is reasoning by analogy to the black experience (e.g. if similar caricatures of blacks are offensive to them due to centuries of pervasive racism, then other groups should be able to claim offense at caricatures of them) I remember reading something years ago about an Asian-American frat (I think some pledge died during a hazing ritual). Part of the pledge process was to read a bunch of stuff about anti-Asian racism in order to build a shared identity.
  - read_if_gay_ 6y ago
    > Chinese-born or American-born? My guess is that American-born Chinese would be more likely to be offended Born in Europe actually, so I don't know where I fall on that spectrum, haha. But probably closer to the US than to China.
Dirlewanger 6y ago
This is what happens when sheltered white people on Twitter get bored.
- dang 6y ago
  I've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle and also for the trollish username. We've asked you many times to stop the former, and you seem to have ignored my question about the latter (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25362566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25362566).

read_if_gay_ 6y ago

Am chinese, am not offended by this. I think it's cute in fact. Yes, N=1 but in general there's a valid point here. It is insane how often people are getting offended on behalf of others nowadays.

tablespoon 6y ago
> Am chinese, am not offended by this. I think it's cute in fact. Yes, N=1 but in general there's a valid point here. It is insane how often people are getting offended on behalf of others nowadays. Chinese-born or American-born? My guess is that American-born Chinese would be more likely to be offended, because they've been acculturated to the American culture around this kind of offense, and a lot of it is reasoning by analogy to the black experience (e.g. if similar caricatures of blacks are offensive to them due to centuries of pervasive racism, then other groups should be able to claim offense at caricatures of them) I remember reading something years ago about an Asian-American frat (I think some pledge died during a hazing ritual). Part of the pledge process was to read a bunch of stuff about anti-Asian racism in order to build a shared identity.
- read_if_gay_ 6y ago
  > Chinese-born or American-born? My guess is that American-born Chinese would be more likely to be offended Born in Europe actually, so I don't know where I fall on that spectrum, haha. But probably closer to the US than to China.

Dirlewanger 6y ago

This is what happens when sheltered white people on Twitter get bored.

dang 6y ago
I've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle and also for the trollish username. We've asked you many times to stop the former, and you seem to have ignored my question about the latter (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25362566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25362566).