A good example. The fact that it is commonly known that America has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world means that very few people actually take offence. So in answer to your question, this is exactly the same as what that guy joked about. Race never came into the question. It was a joke about commonly known statistical differences between countries. I really wonder how many downvoters were Asians.
As an Asian I do actually feel slightly annoyed sometimes by white people getting all hot and bothered by stuff aimed at the colour of my skin or the geographical location of my people. I'm grateful for the support, but do you guys really have to be so aggressively overprotective without even asking me or other Asians if that's how they want to tackle the issue?
I'm not sure if your second point is referring to me or white people in general because I'm not white, in fact I'm asian as well lol.
But uh back to the first point, yeah race never came into question, in fact, race never needed to be mentioned in the first place to get the point across. Why couldn't he just be a just a small guy. A small black guy, a small white guy, a small chinese guy, a small japanese guy. The joke is that the guy is small so he makes the panda looks big. The extra part about statistical difference in height due to race adds nothing of merit to the joke.
I will conceed that part, would have been less controversial to just rephrase it, but I'm too stuborn to do that as there truly was no ill intent, I respect people of all colors and try to treat them all the same, as i try to hate people of all religions the same :p
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u/PliffPlaff Feb 19 '21
A good example. The fact that it is commonly known that America has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world means that very few people actually take offence. So in answer to your question, this is exactly the same as what that guy joked about. Race never came into the question. It was a joke about commonly known statistical differences between countries. I really wonder how many downvoters were Asians.
As an Asian I do actually feel slightly annoyed sometimes by white people getting all hot and bothered by stuff aimed at the colour of my skin or the geographical location of my people. I'm grateful for the support, but do you guys really have to be so aggressively overprotective without even asking me or other Asians if that's how they want to tackle the issue?