Mbappe is memed as ‘the dictator’. He was asked by a journalist if he has seen the memes online and what he thinks of them. He said he likes the meme of his face photoshopped on an image of ‘I think, a Chinese dictator’, that he finds it funny.
What’s resulted is non-stop racial abuse on Chinese social media and annulment of contracts and sponsorships with the entire Spanish league. The government itself has condemned him. He apologized publicly for referring to Mao as a dictator and yet a lot of people online are just going whole hog on the racism.
My issue with it is that everyone around the world learns western history, whether that be my parents in SWANA, or my friends who studied in Peru, China, Rwanda, Tanzania as children.
It must feel like such a slap in the face to have to learn about an English king’s marriage from the 1500’s and all that other arbitrarily useless stuff to learn about a completely different country, while the citizens of those countries don’t even know your country’s “founding fathers” or how your government works or even how day to day life is in your country.
I know he’s an athlete and he’s given the dumb pass, but this is probably an overreaction from the years of ignorance westerners have presented about China while speaking to a public forum.
He was replying to a meme about himself being called a dictator, what the fuck do you want him to say? ‘I really like the picture of my face overlaid on Mao’s, but I must correct you because while Mao was the dictator of the proletariat, he was a democratically elected leader of the peasant revolution in China’ like jesus crhist. This overreaction is because he’s black and an easy target. If it had been any other white star, they’d have rolled out a rehab course for them, not given meat to teir racists
are there examples you can give of this “rehab course” for white western celebrities?