Based Chinese Abuse Black ‘Stress Relief Doll’, Progressive Meltdown Ensues

Originally published via Armageddon Safari:

Endowed with something an expat friend of mine once called a strong “cultural immune system,” the natives of the Orient are notoriously insensitive to the pleas from Social Justice™ people in the West that they walk on eggshells so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities of subscribers to globo-homo race communism.

They exhibit a striking disregard for accusations of racism, transphobia, sexism, or really any –ism that so permeates and saturates the Western liberal mind.

In fact, leftist henpecking rolling off their backs like water off a duck constitutes a major theme of my widely acclaimed expat memoir, Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile.

This total indifference to the usual tenets of Social Justice™ I found to be a most welcome change of pace when I first visited in 2010, having just finished a liberal arts degree at a mid-tier state-run university stateside with a (totally useless, it turned out) minor in sociology, all courses having been taught by gender eunuchs and unqualified minorities and butch lesbians with chest hair and peace medallions around their neck reliving the 60s.

I had been so surrounded by vicious lesbians and DEI hires for so long, I had almost forgotten what liberty from their oppression might feel like.

Then I went to Asia, with nary a frumpy middle-aged lesbian with a chip on her shoulder to be seen.

Where they’re free to market black “stress-relief toys” intended to be abused for entertainment.

Via Bored Panda:

“A stress-relief toy has become the center of a viral controversy that many internet users are calling “gross and insane.”
The “Natasha” doll, a popular squishy toy originating in China, has gone viral after users noticed a troubling pattern in videos featuring the product.
Despite multiple color variations being available, many online clips focus on the Black version of the doll, leading critics to question why it has become the preferred target for serious mistreatment…
he “Natasha” Black Doll is a viral squishy decompression toy designed to help alleviate stress, anxiety, and everyday tension.
Made from slow-rising memory foam or soft TPR rubber, the toy can be squeezed, twisted, or stretched before gradually returning to its original shape.
The standard dolls reportedly come in three skin-tone variants: Black, Coffee/Brown, and White/Cream…
Despite the wide range of available variations, controversy has centered on the Black version of the doll, with videos involving it gaining significant traction on Chinese social media platforms such as RedNote and Douyin.”

Chinese film themselves abusing black 'stress relief doll' pic.twitter.com/fNm9KnIkEq
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) June 15, 2026

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The backlash has been swift in the West.

I was under the impression that “representation matters,” so you would think they’d be pleased with the inclusion of dolls in their likeness on the Chinese market.

But here we are.

It’s never enough for these people.

I had no idea there were enough blacks in Hong Kong to constitute a significant enough minority to pander to, but apparently there is, at least according to Westernized liberal media outlet Hong Kong Free Press, probably funded by the CIA to be used at some later point to foment a color revolution inside of China.

Via Hong Kong Free Press:

“A viral stress-relief “Natasha” doll trending on Chinese social media has been deemed “absolutely diabolical” by members of Hong Kong’s Black community.
Resembling a small child, the most popular version is dark-skinned and features exaggerated racial characteristics. Buyers have filmed themselves beating, stretching, boiling and stomping on the toy.
“No design is created, marketed, and sold in isolation of thought and purpose. The design, manufacturing, and selling of a Black baby doll to abuse at one’s whims is at the root of the existence of movements like Black Lives Matter,” Monique Franz, a writer and founder of Kinsman Avenue Publishing – a non-profit which advocates for underrepresented voices – told HKFP.
“By inviting people to take out their stresses on a Black body, we invite populations to abuse our Black bodies at their whims, robbing us of our actual humanity. While this is a game to others, Black people are experiencing widespread global abuse, which is the result of portrayals of us in such degrading ways,” added Franz, who is African-American.”

Benjamin Bartee, author of Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile, is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs.

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