you could work it into an anime fight move where you just scream CHIIIIIIIIIIKNEEEEEEEEEEES as you build up power and then knee them in the junk.

How about this: both of these things are crimes against humanity, and the people responsible for both things should be held accountable and have to face justice.

Yeeeeeah, I’m not sure I buy much of that. You’ve used a lot of words to explain what was a pretty straightforward question, and even then you didn’t really say why this joke itself dehumanizes Chinese people. Instead, you’ve offered a fairly generic explanation of how racial jokes as a whole can be used over time to…

I’m Chinese, and I’m stealing that joke. Not that I have many (any) opportunities to knee people, but if I did, I’d yell, “See these knees? These are CHI-KNEES” as I do so.

You definitely have a point about the glass-house nature of China. Obviously, because they’re so frequently wrong, it doesn’t make it less of an issue if it really is racist - but I’m inclined to agree that it’s just stupid not racist.

The movie being “doomed” though won’t be able to be laid at the feet of this issue.…

But it isn’t racist. This is just being ridiculously blown out of proportion, which is a shame for the cast/crew involved, as the movies is now doomed. China is so fucking racist - why the hell are we still pandering to their shit. We all still remember John Boyega almost disappearing off The force awakens poster, the…

“Historically, I can’t think of a single occasion where it worked, and a few dozen where it backfired.”

Same. I do recognize that most actual Chinese people don’t give a crap (at least those who don’t worship the government, anyway), but it’s like... you big thinkers in the government do realize that reacting like this actually makes you look dumb to the rest of the world, right?

To be fair, people said the exact same thing about the printing press.

I didn’t understand the joke either. I mean, I get “chinese” and “knees” rhyme, but what’s the subtext here? Where’s the implication / insult / racism other than using a word that rhymes with a nationality?
(I’m from Mexico, so I’m honestly sorry if it’s totally in-your-face racism and I’m missing something culturally…

Honestly fuck em, disney also removed a black man from a certain movie poster to appease the chinese market.  Yeah the "joke" was terrible but why feel bad for china when they whine when they are supposedly offended.

Hey wanna hear a chinese joke? Uyghurs women getting sterilized and brainwashed. Well why are you not laughing? What are you racist against the Chinese?

I’m from a Chinese family and it’s kinda hipocritical they’d call that joke racist and raise a fuss when you hear every Chinese calling a westener a ‘White Ghost’ or similar racists slang depending on your region/dialect.

The modern Chinese population is, as aptly described by a Chinese phrase:

They complain just as much as anybody else. The problem is that the government actively suppresses stuff that threatens its power and only lets the inconsequential stuff get through.

Chinese people seem to be trying their hardest to become the most butthurt people in the world by fussing over tiny things like this.

West Taiwan outrage culture strikes again. Everyone needs to stop giving the CCP and its brainwashed yes-babies a free-pass in pushing their agenda world-wide. They’re so hung up on regaining that golden-age perception of Chinese Civilization.

Yeah, I’m a bit on the fence about this myself. On one hand, it’s not even really funny, and is really obnoxious. On the other hand, I hate how studios have been trying to bend over backwards for China, and trying to appease the Chinese government as much as possible. I kinda wonder if this was Anderson’s way of…

The moral of the story is that no good has ever come from the democratization of information and of commentary. Review bombing, Yelp, social media, YouTube comments...all of it needlessly influential, all of it worthless.

I’m Chinese myself, and... yeah, it’s kind of obnoxious, but I’m also kind of numb to China pitching a bitch about everything. This seems like a really petty thing comparatively.