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I guess you're referring to this one? https://dedede.de/en/posts/CimzQqTYi4

FWIW that's a post I made myself - the German embassy in Tokyo put up a series of posters explaining some German words, and that's the image they chose for "schadenfreude".

Could you explain that? Absent other context (i.e. a broader collection of works demonstrating some bias) I'm not understanding how this poster can possibly demonstrate "offensive racial and cultural bigotry".

If it had been two Asian girls, it would not have invoked the image of non-Asian people lacking respect for Asians. This image encourages hostility and even bigotry among Asians.

Schadenfreude does not require both parties to be different in some meaningful way. The poster confuses schadenfreude with cultural bigotry in which schadenfreude may play a non-essential roll.

see my comment above. It's you and those who view the world in the same way who have the automatic fixation with race, not someone just showing human interaction.

Your comment is a personal attack. It adds nothing else to the discussion. We don't do that sort of thing here.

Wasn't a personal attack. I was attacking the opinion. And in any case, pointless, completely contrived race baiting does have a place here? Those are the kinds of comments that deserve to be called out for their blatant stupidity.

Also, people on this site regularly engage in personal attacks. I'd suggest you read the comments on many posts more carefully since you've appointed yourself to be the conduct police.

Really? Assuming that one doesn't fixate obsessively on race for the sake of trying to hunt down perceived offense wherever possible, the poster should just be viewed as that of one human being laughing at the misfortune of another, without condescendingly assuming that because the weeping girl is Asian (not "oriental", since you're nailed so firmly to proper racial nuance), she must immediately be a victim and worthy of special consideration.

What a sick little mentality, that of viewing all human interaction through the lens of what ethnicity or race is shown and how that frames any context.

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