There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
And to answer your earlier question, since I'm now thinking it wasn't rhetorical or sarcastic, Chinese was the "race" in the aforementioned racism.
PLEASE check the meaning of the terms you're using. Most of them have a pretty strict definition and by applying them to random things you're trivializing them. And trivializing racism is not good.
You know damn well what was meant in both posts. But I guess by your logic all bigoted "jokes" that stereotype anyone other then white, black, or hispanic, it's all good, huh?
I used the term that was already being used in the conversation. It you prefer bigot or xenophobe we can use those words instead, but it's after 4am and frankly I'm too tired to care if some random dude online doesn't think I'm using proper vocabulary to try to help him out by pointing out that he was mistaken when he read a tagged response wrong and got butt hurt over something that wasn't even directed at him.
But, since you asked.... I didn't read what you wrote as having to do with a language barrier so much as being eager to mass produce anything offered without giving a second thought to where it comes from or if it infringes on any other products. And also the numbers you quoted and the turn around time strongly hinted at the "mass produced made in China garbage product" mentality so many around here have.
Obviously I wasn't the only one who read it differently then you apparently meant it, so perhaps it was a problem with your delivery. But either way, no, the racism is definitely not in my head. That's not who I am.
Whereas I feel Yan's response came across more as nitpicking definitions to find a way to make stereotyping and bigotry ACCEPTABLE because of a technicality of someone using the words race/racism rather than nationality/xenophobia.
Like, in his eyes, nazis weren't really being racist to Jews because Jewish isn't a race by his by the books definition. "All Muslims are terrorists" isn't racist because Muslim isn't a race. "Made in China, must be crap" isn't racist because China isn't a race. (or, even more absurdly, he even pointed out you never specifically said "Chinese", even though you had an individual representing China in the made up conversation.....really? We're not even supposed to assume in that circumstance that that implied it was a Chinese person taking? Give me a freaking break on the semantics!)
A reasonable person could interpret the spirit of the term and not get all holier than thou about their knowledge on the details of the subject. And a reasonable person wouldn't make themselves look like an ass backpeddling and searching for loopholes after laughing at a racist joke and looking for an out. (again, him, not you) I've dealt with enough people in my life who only know how to argue by twisting technicalities or trying to make a conversation so muddled with details that the other person feels in over their head and either gives in, or doesn't realize the argument has shifted so far away from it's original point that we forget what we were appalled by in the first place. It's a common method used by people with more book smarts than morals.
In short, I was much more offended by his method of defending your post on a technicality than I was by the original post itself
I do give a BIG thumbs down for the use of profanity tho... I would appreciate the use of the name "RICHARD" I would have still understood. I'm not even going to say FINAL WORD... damn but I just did!... Bc we know it won't be....
Too much? I make me laugh!