If this movie can't release in China, Paul WS Anderson will never get to make a movie again. He goes straight to Director Jail.
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If this movie can't release in China, Paul WS Anderson will never get to make a movie again. He goes straight to Director Jail.
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That joke is absolutely awful. Though it's a shame the moral fortitude to prevent exposure to a racist joke doesn't extend to other parts of the industry in China
Racist joke? No go.
Filmed near an internment camp? Ok go.
Scenes of LGBT love? Nope
Black character being bigger than a postage stamp on a poster? Absolutely not
Racist joke? No go.
Filmed near an internment camp? Ok go.
Scenes of LGBT love? Nope
Black character being bigger than a postage stamp on a poster? Absolutely not
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Apparently he got the rights to direct the movie before anyone else could.
The joke is that over 1 million Chinese Muslims are locked up in concentration camps, separated from their kids, forced to eat pork and wine, sold in groups as factory workers, tortured with medications, forced to abort if they were pregnant, and much more heinous acts.
They will never see their kids again, their kids are thrown into ''orphanages'' where they are brainwashed every day into praying and believing in one God, the Chinese communist party.
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What is going on with all the George Floyd comparisons coming from some Chinese users on sites like the ones screenshotted above and Twitter? I don't see how they're related in any way, but I keep seeing them crop up. Am I missing something about the original racist joke? I'm genuinely just confused, not judging either way.
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They're saying that people/companies have already moved on and forgotten about their vows to do better that we saw after George Floyd.
There are also offensive comments about Floyd and Black people, which is super gross.
I'm sure we can be critical on China and anti-Asian racists jokes in general too since not all Asian people live in China?
That doesn't make the racism okay, let's not downplay the racism because it happens against Chinese people.
It is not related at all, those comments represent an internet troll-level of discourse and are in complete bad faith.
This is the joke and it is a visual joke. It is also a requirement to sing it in a pseudo-Asian style of music and sing it in an annoying high-pitch voice.
Chi-i-nese - "eyes slanted up using your fingers"
Jap-a-nese - "eyes slanted down doing the same"
Dir-ty Knees - "slapping your knees with your hands"
Look-at-these - "pulling your shirt out with your fingers, making you appear that you have a big set of boobies."
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/whatshesaid/2012/02/dirty-knees-look-at-these/
the problem is white people are deciding what is racist, and it is not up to them to decide, as stated by Jerry Afriyie, one of the founders of the Dutch anti-racist organisation Kick Out Black Pete.
Chi-knees.
It's cringe dad humor that they probably should have run by some other Chinese people first to discover other possible interpretations.
I wonder if those lines of dialogue were actually an attempt at pandering to the Chinese audience, by drawing attention to the fact that this guy is Chinese, in case it wasn't clear. Because if they were just trying to write banter between two army guys, those lines seem pretty unnatural. At any rate, they couldn't have failed harder.
User banned (2 weeks): Inflammatory whataboutism; deflecting concerns of racism
Until they stop murdering and sterilising people, yeah.
Can you handle that? You going to be ok?
Actually I agreed with this. Recent years nearly all American films with heavy Chinese investment had stupid and forced pandering toward Chinese market (see: The Martian, Independence Day 2，etcetera ), and audience didn't even like it. This time they failed miserably.
The CCP. Or the US. Or anybody who does that. The fuck is your angle man?
It's hard to feel...anything towards a country that is currently undertaking an ethnic cleansing.
I thought I'd heard every racist joke growing up. Somehow I missed this one. If you didn't explain it to me, I would've just seen this as a horrible, horrible pun that's pandering to the Chinese audience (which doesn't even make sense since this pun cannot translate). I'd like to give the writers the benefit of the doubt - that they're just idiots and not intentionally making allusions to a racist joke, but...
The Chinese helping in the Martian was actually in the book. The only significant change was the goofy ass rescue scene.
Sheesh, this is one of those times Gaming Side is better at handling an issue of racism toward Asian people than EtcetEra.
My angle is, any thread that involves China somehow always devolve into a "Fuck the CCP" circle jerk, and a bunch of racist or closet racist era posters will use the "Fuck the CCP" angle to dog whisle the fuck out of it and use it demean other minority races as well.
