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Gem-Bug
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Good on them for apologizing, though it really shouldn't have been in there in the first place.
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Somer-_-
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Can't really have an opinion on this without knowing what the line was.
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Tanteikingdomkey
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yay given some of the things that I know that has caused a similar reaction I can't help but go...So what Exactly upset them |
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RockSplash
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It's really not as offensive as I was expecting. MERCENARY GUY: Art! It's your chi! Chi-knees! That's what it was. He points at his knees while saying it in a truck. |
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RealMTL
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What's offensive here exactly? I don't think bad jokes should be considered offensive... just cheesy and unfunny. |
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Somer-_-
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Yeah I don't get it. |
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FlamingFirewire
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For more context, you can reference the sources on the Wikipedia page for this, but as per the Wikipedia page, the referenced line calls back to a "racist playground chant in English-speaking countries, used to mock children of Asian origin": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese,_Japanese,_dirty_knees I hadn't heard of this one before either, but I'm sure there are many out there who have heard this before depending on where they grew up, and certainly didn't appreciate what it might imply. |
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overlordrae
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OOH. Looking at the wiki, I'm most familiar with being harassed with the "Look at these" variant without the dirty knees part. Yeah, that's racist as fudge. Shit like that is why I denied being mixed race for years. |
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Firefly251
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generally I laugh at the stuff China QQ's about..but this was straight racist and shouldnt of been doen in 1st place.
you think they'd know that given the past yr of race movements... racism isnt funny. under any circumstance. |
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Beatdigga
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Knowing how the internet works today, I wonder if an apology actually means anything or if it just gets people who hate China mad.
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Yttrbio
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And honestly, what Chinese person isn't intimately familiar with American schoolyard antics and insults that would be incomprehensible in Mandarin and kind of sort of sound like the line used in the movie but not really and with a completely different context? Of course they'd be offended. This isn't just another invented outrage used to remind folks of who calls the shots.
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Deacon Blues
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Oddly, ANN is missing a pretty big chunk of this story.
A lot of this had to do with the original subtitle translation of that scene too.
It was only made worse when they started invoking George Floyd-esque memes of I can't breathe and police officer knees. All in all the situation got blown way out of proportion and it didn't help that the propaganda machine in China only fueled the fire even more. Pretty sad. |
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faboo95
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If the outrage has something to do with the subtitles, then yeah that's something I would understand. But to connect the corny pun to the "schoolyard rhyme" is quite the reach. |
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Primus
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The clip I've seen isn't really like that. It's some banter between military personnel travelling through the desert. One of them, played by an American actor of Chinese descent, says, "What kind of knees are these?" He responds to himself, "Chi-knees." I'd link it, but Sony is blocking all YouTube uploads in the regions they're distributing the movie in. I had to use a VPN. The actor who said the line has come out and defended it. He says that it was meant to just tell the audience that the character is Chinese. There was no ill intent, nor was it meant to reference that rhyme.
I've thought about that, too. I could understand if this was raised by western Asians who were on the receiving end of the taunt, but actual people living in China? The Wikipedia article on it was created this week in response to the Monster Hunter controversy. It's not so well known that you'd think people on the other side of the world would be familiar with it. |
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