And for the record, there was nothing even remotely racist in my comment. Dessalines just can’t accept being wrong. 🤷🏻♀️
UPDATE : I am (almost) sad to report the ban only extends to [email protected] !
Also, I found the original comment, here it is (and if you see what’s racist about it, please tell me, I’m open to being wrong about this, although I really doubt it) :
( Update 2 : cropped the second image properly )
And the post you got banned for isn’t racist at all, unlike what the person who replied to you insinuated.
Dessalines seems to think the Winnie the Pooh likening is because Pooh is yellow and not because he is fat and round. Which, in a way, makes him the racist one.
The “Asian yellow skin” thing never made any sense to me. I’ve seen a ton of Asians, none of them were yellow, not even close. Xi Jinping has the same complexion as a white guy with a tan.
I think it was substantially influenced by the traditional four humours. Carl Linnaeus’ work was not the first to call East Asians “yellow”, but it was very widely spread and influential. He categorised humans into four races and associated each with one of the humours, then describing that race as having the characteristics associated with the humour (hence the equally-odd “red” description for Native Americans)