Prunebutt

Apparently, I'm a russian asset for pointing this out.

Because racism is good if it targets the right people. /s

Thanks for proving my point that racism against russians is apparently ok to do now on lemmy.

Caricaturing people of other ethnicities look like monkeys to degrade them has a looong, racist tradition. About 100 years ago, russians were considered a backwards, horde of uncivilized asian/mongols in Europe.

I simply see these kinds of caricatures as racist. And I'm not alone in this.

It's about as cool as depicting him as a kraken (antisemitic), or as a drag queen, to "own" him.

Do you have any idea about the history of "caricature strangers to look like monkeys"?

"I'm not antisemitic. I really like the good Jews". /s

While I have seen racist uses of monkey imagery towards black people, never have I seen it towards Russians.

Ever since Putin's invasion of Ukraine, German discourse at least was full of racist remarks on how russians basically have no culture, aren't even European, etc.

I'd argue that comparing people to Apes should be judged just like depicting people like squids/kraken (which is an antisemitic caricature).

But I can hardly still connect it to mindless rascism since there are quite a few reasons why monkey comparison is used.

Are the reasons because russians are sub-humans, maybe? /s

There is a cult of personality around Putin, or any other dictator. Where making fun of him, lands you in jail. Public images like that are a fight against it. (Like Jinping drawn like winnie pooh).

Again: how does this excuse racism? You're constantly dodging the issue.

Also I'm pretty sure that you're the one being racist.

Ah, the good old alt-right defense of "I can't be racist if I didn't think about it. In fact, if you think aboutit, you're the racist"-defense. 🙄

Well... They're not paid to do so, so. Yeah.

I've seriously learned a bit about computer architecture from OoT speedruns.

Thanks, I know of Hitler and Mein Kampf. I even know German, wouldn't you believe it. 🙄 (Also: the better translation would be "My Struggle")

Can't you see that the image looks a lot like racist caricatures of when humans (usually plack people) where drawn like/compared to apes.

Is it that you look highly at Putin and have embraced his cult of personality?

WTF? Taking umbridge with racist imagery means that I'm a Putin simp now? Do you *reallyy think that racist caricatures are OK when it's directed at the "right" people? O.o

Putin's clearly supposed to look like a monkey in the picture (also: "Mein Banan"). I didn't even see the connection to Hitler.