We take a trip to China to uncover the origins of the Falun Gong, the contradictions between superstition and science, rural ear reading, levitation, and Qigong fever.

Copy pasting a fantastic comment from the reddit thread.

I tried to explain to my mom why I don't want to go to Shen Yun with her the next time I visited but she agreed with all their insane ideas about evolution being a lie and science being a communist plot. Luckily she thinks yoga is also sacrilegious so explaining Qigong finally got her to turn on it.

    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      As a dude who has been hating on Shen Yun to coworkers for years and knew about the segregated heaven, flying, homophobia, opposition to airplanes, opposition to medicine, aliens, etc I have to say, I was still shocked by the burning a 12 year old thing. That shit has been buried, nobody talks about it.

      The fact that CNN seemingly knew in advance and just watched while they doused the kid in gas is also sickening.

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The fact that CNN seemingly knew in advance and just watched while they doused the kid in gas is also sickening.

        That was fucked up. Sounds like an op. :cia: