imagine if you learned that japanese twitter was full of baffling memes about jfk that required a specific context that doesn't exist anywhere in america

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[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If it's specifically the scene where the white doctor is throwing a tantrum and the Asian doctor is sitting in a chair barely reacting, I can see how that can be a meme for when the west throws a tantrum

[–] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I google it and it seems to just be a generally memed show, i think your thing is more the english version?

"Amputate everything below the neck" is the caption

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

Lmao

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Coincidentally I was talking to one of my Chinese doctor friends who works in the West and she said that basicly the same thing happened to her but with a Neurotypical colleague. To quote her: "He's not doing that because he's autistic. Hes doing that because he's white."

[–] voight@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

I feel like something about that guy's performance in Good Doctor should be punishable by law but maybe I'm a self hating autistic