That’s cool, I just wanted to be clear on how I’m trying to interact - it’s easy to miscommunicate on the internet!
My issues with “Xi as Winnie the Pooh” center around the way it’s presented in the Western internet. Xi is often depicted with harshly yellow skin, and with comically slanted eyes.
There’s clearly a commonality between how racist caricatures of Chinese people have been created historically, like this:
To be clear, I’m trying to communicate that it’s considered racist/bigoted by Lemmy.ml’s mods, and that’s the reason the user was banned.
While I see it as bigoted, I understand that it’s commonly used in lemmy.world (where we are) and I’m not going to police it’s use, dunk on the user using it, or report it the way I would in .ML, Lemmygrad, or Hexbear.
The fediverse is an ideologically shared space, and I’m doing my best to reasonably interact on other instances!
With those qualifiers, would you still like me to share my reasoning?
Is this post just crying because you got banned? Why not just wait the 13 days to ride it out?
Lemmy.ml isn’t even your instance, and posting in .world isn’t going to reverse your ban.
.ML was always explicitly leftist, and run by communists. They’re just nice and try for a reasonably ideologically diverse community.
You clearly aren’t interested in following their rules (your use of the racist comparison of Xi and Winnie the Pooh breaks their “no bigotry” rule, and you can’t seem to post sourced posts that fit their communities.)
The US military, the strongest army in the world, was defeated by a bunch of rice farmers? Come on, get some better writers.
The Vietnamese were a sophisticated guerilla force that had already successfully fought the French and Japanese. They had been fighting in that environment for literal decades.
Taiwan: the people of Taiwan don’t want China there and China shouldn’t invade.
Not to link dump below, but I think the history of the civil war and specifically the White Terror give necessary context. China (as the ROC) already invaded Taiwan.
“The KMT lost the Chinese Civil War and retreated to Taiwan in 1949. However, Chiang Kai-shek intended to eventually return to mainland China and retake control of it. In order to do this, the KMT attempted to “sinicize” the Taiwanese people.[19][20][21][22] KMT’s Taiwan Garrison Commander Chen Yi stated that after 50 years of Japanese rule, “Taiwanese customs, thought, and language would have to gradually return to that of the Chinese people”.[23] The KMT believed that a centrally controlled curriculum would forge a unified national sentiment in Taiwan. They also believed education would help build a martial spirit and stimulate enough military, economic, political, and cultural strength not only to survive, but also to recover the mainland.[24]”.
40 years of martial law and something like 20,000 executions were enacted in order to build the public opinion they have now.
Please note that I agree with your main point (China should not militarily invade Taiwan), but I do support China’s stated goal of peaceful reunification