Comment by Lydia [she/her]@hexbear.net on this place too, to a lesser extent but still an issue

At least that one is related to Adrian Zenz.

I wouldn’t say that :xi: is body shaming, even if Xi Jinping isn’t conventionally attractive. It is simply a picture of Adrian Zenz and I’ve not seen it used for anything other than referencing Adrian Zenz.

If you say so I guess.

not gonna say you’re wrong but I never got this vibe

and I’ve not seen it used for anything other than referencing Adrian Zenz.

I have a few times. I don’t think that that’s the stated intent of the emoji but I have seen people dunk on his looks using it. We can just call people out on it tho

Excuse me, Xi is the most attractive man alive and I’m going to need you to delete these heinous lies immediately.

unironically he do got me feeling some type of way sometimes :panting:

I thought the Zenz emote was for like mocking anti-china stuff obviously written by him and not about how he looked?

I’ve seen it used for the latter often

hmm silly people would use it that way, I think it’s original intention was to mock Zenz for being literally the only source china watchers keep citing to attack the country.

true, I guess lots of people need to change the way they use that emote ___

Ive def seen people dunk on him for how he looks. One post in particular stood out to me where they were like “anyone who looks like this :zenz:” :cringe:

Meh more worried about the willingness to create propaganda tbh

There was an old thread with exactly this same struggle session and the point made about Zens look is that it is not just his face but the clothing choices, his glasses and his haircut.

He definitely has a stereotypical look but the point is apart from his face he can change all of those things.

Haircut? Grow his hair. Weirdo glasses? Wear contacts. worse case try different frames. Shitty clothing? He certainly isn’t a working class person struggling to make ends meet, if he can afford a nice suit he can afford a better suit.

I don’t see any problem in critiquing those things. If you didn’t know who that person is supposed to be he looks like any normal white male with a shitty fashion sense that happens to look like certain other people with the same shitty fashion sense. None of that is inherent to him as a human being.

Literally who gives a shit how he’s dressed? The bigger problem is he’s paid liar

As I said this is not the first struggle session about the Zens emote usage, nothing changed since the last time, this struggle session is literaly the same talking point you decide if people care or not. I too think most people don’t care about his look yet here we are again.

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