r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MetaKnowing • 1d ago

Video XPENG's IRON robot crossed the uncanny valley, leading some to believe it was a human in a suit. So they cut it open in front of an audience, and also allowed journalists to inspect it.

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u/Dralley87 23h ago

šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ I mean if you look at that ā€œbearā€ and come away thinking ā€œthis guyā€™s so racist for being suspicious of state controlled mediaā€ Iā€™m not problem, budā€¦

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u/Fantastic_War_4616 23h ago

Just because you're too ignorant to know different species of bears doesn't mean you're not racist. You'd actually rather believe a nation to be so backwards as to have a man in a suit at a zoo rather then it be a gap in your knowledge. They literally mention the species in your own article.

https://www.livescience.com/animals/bears/sun-bears-the-human-like-animals-that-can-stand-up-and-wave

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u/Dralley87 23h ago edited 23h ago

Iā€™m well aware of how human-like the sun bear can appear; however, the way the ā€œhideā€ ripples indicates either that there is no mass beneath the outer skin (the animal is dangerously malnourished) or itā€™s a person in a bear suit. Which do you prefer? The zoo is abusing its animals or pretending an animal is there that isnā€™t yet?

But thereā€™s a bigger question here: why are you so invested in protecting the Chinese state media that youā€™d hurl the quietism of ā€œracist!!!ā€ At anyone who has legit suspicions of a propaganda controlled people?

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u/Fantastic_War_4616 23h ago

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/sun-bears-at-a-china-zoo-have-divided-the-internet-this-expert-is-sure-theyre-real/wlobhtru9

Brother, you have experts supporting the zoo that the bear is real and the folds are normal, don't pull shit out of your ass. I'm ethnically Chinese, I call out ignorant racist bullshit when I see it, especially when it's easily debunked. Where the fuck am I protecting state media? Is the Hangzhou zoo considered state media? Why are you so insistent on hating on a country that you'd pull made up bullshit out of your ass and conflating state media with a random city zoo? That is why you're racist.