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Offensive Meme Promoting Anti-Chinese Racial Stereotype

This discriminatory image macro features a screenshot of Spongebob Squarepants with heavily bloodshot, exhausted eyes and a blank dazed expression. The text above the character reads 'When I just got robbed in china and the police ask what they looked like'. The meme promotes the harmful, false racist stereotype that all people of Chinese or East Asian descent are visually indistinguishable from one another, implying the robbery victim would be unable to describe the suspect due to this false perceived similarity.
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When I just got robbed in china and the police ask what they looked like

Overview

This discriminatory image macro features a screenshot of Spongebob Squarepants with heavily bloodshot, exhausted eyes and a blank dazed expression. The text above the character reads 'When I just got robbed in china and the police ask what they looked like'. The meme promotes the harmful, false racist stereotype that all people of Chinese or East Asian descent are visually indistinguishable from one another, implying the robbery victim would be unable to describe the suspect due to this false perceived similarity.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of Reddit Meme community content, with the original post title listed as 'Just let it go twin'. It repurposes a widely used Spongebob tired reaction meme format to spread racist misinformation and harmful stereotypes about Chinese people.

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