What the article says is, of course, horrible. But even if you believe it, it is parents who put their kids in conversion camps. The only part where the govt. comes in is with the assertion that some people heading these "schools" are members of the CCP (which has over 90 million members so c'mon). There are two other articles in this series but they are paywalled so can't talk about them.

Here is a good article covering LGBTQ+ news in China (positives and negatives).

Here is some direct rebuttal by someone more educated.

All this kind of coverage in Western news does is make certain conservative voices within the Global South associate lgbt rights as "western" and hurt marginalized people within.

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    2 years ago

    Jokes aside though.

    Nathan Ruser from ASPI tells Crikey the Shandong Zhengxin Education Training School, and other facilities, are “highly securitised campuses that have features similar to internment and re-education facilities in Xinjiang”.

    This sounds way too much like the same mad libs style recycling of smears that happened when going from Falun Gong to Uighur Muslims, where "Falun Dafa purified organs" became the "halal organs" smear. I find it impossible to take very seriously, even in the absence of direct debunks.

    • popsickle [none/use name]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 years ago

      I'm just fucking pissed that this is another thing I know I'll have to argue about with people.

    • egg1916 [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      ASPI

      every fucking time aus-delenda-est is in the news these fuckers are setting the narrative. They literally have 1 Lockheed funded think-tank directing an entire country's foreign policy joker-shopping