• FidelCastro [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    effeminacy

    If I remember correctly, the “effeminacy” thing China has been gunning against isn’t about gender expression as much as “idol culture”. I’ll see if I can find the threads I was reading on that from a queer activist in China.

    As is typical, the western media happily jumped on trying to use this as a propaganda angle. The thread I was reading had some criticism of other policies because China isn’t a utopia, but it was pretty clear on the intent there.

    Edit: Found it. Thread on the topic from our comrades over at r/GenZedong.

    Another twitter thread on the topic.

    Hexbear thread from Alaskaball.

    • Haste_Hall [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Plus it's a thing that the CIA has been partly fueling. They have to fight that.

        • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          IDK if it's true, but the CIA has done some fucking whack shit, this wouldn't even be top 10.

          • Haste_Hall [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Yeah I mean they straight up propagandized Cubans into shipping their kids to the US

        • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          That is no different than them making modern art and rock music to distract us from shit.

            • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              they did suppress the other popular forms of music with things to say. It is entirely in character for them to be in bed with and pushing rock music though.

      • FidelCastro [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        If it was actually what it’s being positioned as (a crackdown on queer culture), China wouldn’t have a right to fight it.

        If history is any example (and it is), however, I’m sure the state department is fueling as many moonshot angles against China as possible.

        • Haste_Hall [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Are you in China? Idk, US consulates and embassies, maybe?

        • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          They mostly work with the big media types so technically most makeup youtubes are probably getting some juice from your tax money.