I’m gonna have to explain this out very simply: blackface has a long history going back more than a century before Obama was even born.

what does this have to do with anything

There do exist racist caricatures of Chinese people with squinty eyes. Pooh does not have the squinty eyes. Ive yet to see any evidence of Pooh being used as a racist caricature before Xi Jinping.

okay, he’s still yellow… and who cares if it was used before that or not? I genuinely have no idea what that has to do with anything

As a forum moderator, you see chinese person being a yellow bear, and tigger being obama… seems racist, better remove because it seems like a racist charicature.

None of the history of it matters at all in my eyes. I honestly and genuinely don’t see why it matters to you.

I think you accidentally admitted the real issue: Pooh is silly, soft, and generally not that smart. Certain types of rulers need to be seen as strong, powerful, and perhaps even ruthless at all times. The real offense is a possible degradation of his “strong man” image.

then make a charicature that makes fun of that and isn’t yellow, I would be fine with that