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Chinese Internet Users Shrug at Pepper Spraying Cop
peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com Pepper Spraying Cop lends a hand to the PLA. peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com Pepper Spraying Cop punishes Seurat’s picnickers More In Internet Gruesome Punjabi TV Act Grips Chinese Internet China Rail Ministry Expands Online Ticket Sales Under Public Pressure, Beijing Opens up Air Quality Monitoring Center Microbloggers Pressure Beijing to Improve Air Pollution Monitoring Groupon ‘Clones’ Dish on Future of Online Deals in China Pepper Spraying Cop may well be on his way to claiming a permanent place in the American political meme hall of fame, but he’s so far garnered mixed reviews from the world’s most sophisticated consumers of online satire: Chinese Internet users. The term Pepper Spraying Cop refers, of course, to Lt. John Pike, the University of California, Davis police officer who infamously pepper-sprayed a passel of peaceful Occupy-movement protestors last week and who has since, in the words of Salon’s Mary Elizabeth Williams, been “ rocking more memes than a Weezer video .” Lt. Pike’s well-documented encounter with the Occupy protestors has inspired everything from an @PepperSprayCop Twitter feed to a series of bitingly funny pepper-spray reviews on Amazon . But it is a series of iconic images Photoshopped to include the policeman and his can of pepper spray that have done the most to catapult him to global infamy. The images – which show Lt. Pike pepper spraying everyone from Lee Harvey Oswald to the picnickers in George Seurat’s “La Grande Jatte” — have spread widely on the Chinese Internet, where many hailed them with long strings of animated smiley face and thumbs-up emoticons. Many others, however, were underwhelmed. “Their satire and Celestial Kingdom satire are not on the same level,” quipped one user of the popular Sina Weibo microblogging service writing under the handle YEJ-YE. “I express disdain for the satire skills of the American imperialists.” Another Weibo user, jedicat, was likewise unimpressed. “The Photoshopping on these images really isn’t inspiring.” Internet satire is a highly refined art in China, where critics of abuse of power are forced to contend with a vast and highly sophisticated censorship apparatus designed to contain the spread of public outrage. As a result, China watcher Brook Larmer recently wrote in a detailed look at Chinese Internet humor, “Chinese bloggers have become masters of comic subterfuge.” Photo-editing software is among the favorite weapons of China’s cyber-satirists, as illustrated in July with Internet users’ take-no-prisoners response to the clumsy attempt by a local government website to fake a road inspection by top officials. While Chinese state media have generally steered clear of reporting on the Occupy protests since an initially flurry of coverage in October, they have nevertheless embraced the Lt. Pike story. Footage of the pepper spray incident made a prominent appearance in state broadcaster CCTV’s main evening news show on Sunday. And on Thursday the website of the Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily published several dozen of the Pepper Spray Cop images. The notion that police in the U.S. would respond in such a way to a peaceful protest has proven disappointing to many in China, with one blogger warning: “Don’t entertain any illusions about the United States – if we want to change the current situation, we have to rely on ourselves.” Meanwhile, a joke circulating widely on Weibo takes both governments to task ( in Chinese ): Chinese journalist: “President Obama, how do you account for an American police officer using pepper spray on citizens?” Obama laughs: “Are you saying we should have used tanks?” One of the more popular Pepper Spray Cop images – that of Lt. Pike blasting “Tank Man” from the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests – somehow did not make it into the People’s Daily slideshow. – Josh Chin. Follow him on Twitter @joshchin
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- Pepper Spraying Cop lends a hand to the PLA.
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- Pepper Spraying Cop punishes Seurat’s picnickers
Pepper Spraying Cop may well be on his way to claiming a permanent place in the American political meme hall of fame, but he’s so far garnered mixed reviews from the world’s most sophisticated consumers of online satire: Chinese Internet users.
The term Pepper Spraying Cop refers, of course, to Lt. John Pike, the University of California, Davis police officer who infamously pepper-sprayed a passel of peaceful Occupy-movement protestors last week and who has since, in the words of Salon’s Mary Elizabeth Williams, been “rocking more memes than a Weezer video.”
Lt. Pike’s well-documented encounter with the Occupy protestors has inspired everything from an @PepperSprayCop Twitter feed to a series of bitingly funny pepper-spray reviews on Amazon. But it is a series of iconic images Photoshopped to include the policeman and his can of pepper spray that have done the most to catapult him to global infamy.
The images – which show Lt. Pike pepper spraying everyone from Lee Harvey Oswald to the picnickers in George Seurat’s “La Grande Jatte” — have spread widely on the Chinese Internet, where many hailed them with long strings of animated smiley face and thumbs-up emoticons.
Many others, however, were underwhelmed.
“Their satire and Celestial Kingdom satire are not on the same level,” quipped one user of the popular Sina Weibo microblogging service writing under the handle YEJ-YE. “I express disdain for the satire skills of the American imperialists.” Another Weibo user, jedicat, was likewise unimpressed. “The Photoshopping on these images really isn’t inspiring.”
Internet satire is a highly refined art in China, where critics of abuse of power are forced to contend with a vast and highly sophisticated censorship apparatus designed to contain the spread of public outrage. As a result, China watcher Brook Larmer recently wrote in a detailed look at Chinese Internet humor, “Chinese bloggers have become masters of comic subterfuge.”
Photo-editing software is among the favorite weapons of China’s cyber-satirists, as illustrated in July with Internet users’ take-no-prisoners response to the clumsy attempt by a local government website to fake a road inspection by top officials.
While Chinese state media have generally steered clear of reporting on the Occupy protests since an initially flurry of coverage in October, they have nevertheless embraced the Lt. Pike story. Footage of the pepper spray incident made a prominent appearance in state broadcaster CCTV’s main evening news show on Sunday. And on Thursday the website of the Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily published several dozen of the Pepper Spray Cop images.
The notion that police in the U.S. would respond in such a way to a peaceful protest has proven disappointing to many in China, with one blogger warning: “Don’t entertain any illusions about the United States – if we want to change the current situation, we have to rely on ourselves.”
Meanwhile, a joke circulating widely on Weibo takes both governments to task (in Chinese):
Chinese journalist: “President Obama, how do you account for an American police officer using pepper spray on citizens?” Obama laughs: “Are you saying we should have used tanks?”
One of the more popular Pepper Spray Cop images – that of Lt. Pike blasting “Tank Man” from the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests – somehow did not make it into the People’s Daily slideshow.
– Josh Chin. Follow him on Twitter @joshchin
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