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“No no you don’t get it, Stalin had to shoot the queers! And Mao! And Deng! And Jiping! Queers are [checks notes] capitalist inventions! Please ignore that queer people have existed since pre-history!”
“Trans women throwing bricks at cops is bourgeois decadence”
Who says this?
This is the sort of thing that could happen in places like Texas and Arkansas, South Carolina and Alabama. maga nation.
It is impossible for this to happen in places like California or New York.If you are LGBT in a red state or a swing state, and say that both parties are the same, you are an idiot. If you neglect to vote for Democrats in November, you are stabbing yourself - and all the LGBT community - in the back.
this is about beijing, China, not beijing, Alabama
And I guarantee the government of Alabama has less contact with the CCP than does the government of California.
doubtful on that one. California has many more domestic industries.
Doubtful eh? Want to bet $20 on it?
I mean based on the walmarts per capita (walmart being a major importer of chinese goods as a business strategy) alabama has about 4x.
This means just on like a social level they’re going to be devoting more resources to communicating with china and be more dependent on them so I would kinda expect alabama to be devoting slightly more communication with the ccp on average.
Realistically also Cali shares a border with mexico and probably, like texas, devote more resources per capita talking to people across that border than Alabama does.
I love random, unhinged California hate-posts.
There is nothing “random” about responding to a comment about Alabama and California, by talking about Alabama and California.
Replace could with is.
When the US oppresses its people and others its just being silly. When China does similar things, they are the scourge of the earth commies authoritarians trying to kill everyone.
Most Americans don’t see the hypocrisy. Sad state.
People in America have the freedom to take to the streets, which we have done many times, and the freedom to stage protests and boycots, which we have done many times, and the freedom demand things be better. The results and successes of these actions is always up for debate, but we’ve made great progress in the last century and have far, far surpassed much of the world in terms of liberties and rights.
It’s really hard to see out of the opaque paper-bag we live in here, but the USA is still one of the best deals out there. It’s okay to both recognize our successes and privileges while also demanding things be better.
idk if america is “one of the best deals out there” but its certainly better than being in a colony or a “strategic interest” country of the US. At best, the US is a second rate country with a dual legal system based on your net worth but its safe from many of the horrors it creates.
Lol, you’re so full of American propaganda.
It’s just as easy to fall prey to the negative propaganda, truth is always a lot more complicated and nuanced than your ideological bubble-worlds like to portray. No matter which direction it may be.
What are you on about, they criticize it all the time, they just don’t lose social credit over it.
“still an authoritarian shithole huh.”
Appears to be a year old, if anyone else was wondering. Doubt things got any better afterwards…
An advocacy group that also served as a safe space for the LGBTQ community in Beijing became the latest organization to close under a crackdown by Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government.
“We very regretfully announce, due to forces beyond our control, the Beijing LGBT Center will stop operating today,”
Obviously if Joey would stop all genocide in the world by waving his magic wand, China would suddenly accept LGBT people.
No ones criticizing him for not stopping it, but for actively being involved in it.
No ones criticizing him for not stopping it
I can provide examples from Lemmy itself in this very community if you like.
Bad wording, of course people want him to stop it. Not criticizing him for doing nothing maybe.
No, like people saying “Biden could stop this today with a phone call if he wanted to”
He probably could, netanyahu would have a hard time saying no, for one good reason. We’re supplying the weapons and money, we can end his resources for the genocide with or without his say.
He probably could
And yet you also think
No ones criticizing him for not stopping it
If you think he is capable of doing so, why wouldn’t the criticism not only exist from others on the left, but also be warranted?
You actually just got this person to call themselves out without them even knowing.
Bravo!
Did you just entirely gloss over my response about bad wording
They have nukes. Netanyahu has leverage.
Nuclear weapons don’t really provide room to maneuver when you’re on the phone with the US President, unless you’re willing to threaten a nuclear strike on the US.
Do so please
Joe Biden invented homophobia, pass it on!
Up until Joe Biden, homosexuals were considered royalty throughout history.
“What about…” not the point. Both are shit.
Everyone is shit.
Is it because Joe Biden hates gender and sexual minorities?
Must be. Damn you, Chairman Biden!
He can’t keep getting away with this!
China is bad about LGBT rights.
There has been some progress, but it’s mostly driven (as it has been in other countries) from the bottom up, from grassroots changes in attitude, and not from the central government. While China doesn’t have the tradition of conservative Christian beliefs that fuel hatred in the US, there’s other beliefs that fuel prejudice and discrimination, especially among older generations.
Many Western sources do try to leverage LGBT issues for geopolitical agendas, as they do with Palestine, for example. But that doesn’t mean that what they say is false. I believe cross-referencing between Western sources and pro-LGBT Chinese sources such as Sixth Tone gives the most accurate picture of the state of things on the ground. Personally, I found Naomi Wu’s perspective to be an invaluable case study, before she unfortunately ran afoul of censors on a different issue.
Hopefully the situation improves for queer people in China, but I fear that increasing global tensions will only slow down progress on that front.
