I never made that connection, thought it was a shape thing (oh and the red shirt). But I never saw asian people as yellow, and don’t understand that remark. An asian friend of mine once jokingly referred to herself as a banana, but then had to explain the joke to me.
Whether you personally are caught up or not it still has a deep history in anti-asian racism. Depictions of asians as yellow is a classic hallmark of anti-asian racism.
Liberals will see this and still argue that portraying Xi as Winnie the Pooh isn’t racist.
Wait, how is it racist?
Are you kidding right now or seriously asking how portraying an Asian person as yellow is racist?
I never made that connection, thought it was a shape thing (oh and the red shirt). But I never saw asian people as yellow, and don’t understand that remark. An asian friend of mine once jokingly referred to herself as a banana, but then had to explain the joke to me.
Whether you personally are caught up or not it still has a deep history in anti-asian racism. Depictions of asians as yellow is a classic hallmark of anti-asian racism.