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Things are getting better but you are kidding yourself if you think it even approaches the liberal attitude of the West.
"The liberal attitude of the West" is far from universal and pretty recent if we're talking about modern societies. My point is that our progress is pretty recent (watch the movie Idiocracy, from 2006, if you want a flavor of how recently stuff like anti-gay slurs were mainstream and uncontroversial in the U.S.), which should make us question how real that progress actually is and also how long it will take China to catch up to us.
But LGBTQ+ folks are mostly accepted these days especially in numerous clusters of liberal cities. In the West, they are also protected by political correctness
This is a very new phenomenon, though. That's 2006, and that wasn't the last piece of mainstream media with all sorts of non-accepting, non-PC elements.
I feel like there is still a long way to go, especially if you consider how much “face” (or social reputation) plays a major role in Chinese society.
The cultural difference might make more of a difference there than it does here, but this can change really fast.
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"The liberal attitude of the West" is far from universal and pretty recent if we're talking about modern societies. My point is that our progress is pretty recent (watch the movie Idiocracy, from 2006, if you want a flavor of how recently stuff like anti-gay slurs were mainstream and uncontroversial in the U.S.), which should make us question how real that progress actually is and also how long it will take China to catch up to us.
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This is a very new phenomenon, though. That's 2006, and that wasn't the last piece of mainstream media with all sorts of non-accepting, non-PC elements.
The cultural difference might make more of a difference there than it does here, but this can change really fast.
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