How do you live knowing you're under a rock and that fact doesn't slow you even slightly in making declarations about what is beyond it?
Can we consider it both a policy failure and a bit chauvinist of Xi to do so little for LBGT people? Sure! I haven't seen evidence that that means he personally dislikes them. With Putin it's hard to tell if he personally gives a shit, but he certainly wants his base to think he does considering all the shitty homophobic quips he leaves in his speeches. Xi I think is just silent on the issue.
I've talked to trans people in China and low-key id fucking love radio silence over what we have in America. Will say that by the metrics for QOL it's basically the same as America according to LGBT groups in Shanghai and Beijing. Maybe slightly better because it isn't on many peoples radar
Younger generation has like 80% support for LGBT people and the party has been big on bringing in younger cadres earlier so it's a matter of time for a turn around
Also Im framing this from 2-3 years ago before Florida started a genocide against trans people.
I don't think Putin really gives a shit either way on gay rights. He just isn't interested enough to prevent gay people being murdered. But I also think that the only way Russia is going to get gay rights is an internal Russian movement.
Western support for gay rights around the world largely consists of articles along the lines of "this is Bob he lives in Uganda and is a secretly gay man risking execution if found he lives at 123 police-read-this street at the corner of this-article-will-get-him-killed avenue"
How do you live knowing you're under a rock and that fact doesn't slow you even slightly in making declarations about what is beyond it?
Can we consider it both a policy failure and a bit chauvinist of Xi to do so little for LBGT people? Sure! I haven't seen evidence that that means he personally dislikes them. With Putin it's hard to tell if he personally gives a shit, but he certainly wants his base to think he does considering all the shitty homophobic quips he leaves in his speeches. Xi I think is just silent on the issue.
I've talked to trans people in China and low-key id fucking love radio silence over what we have in America. Will say that by the metrics for QOL it's basically the same as America according to LGBT groups in Shanghai and Beijing. Maybe slightly better because it isn't on many peoples radar
Younger generation has like 80% support for LGBT people and the party has been big on bringing in younger cadres earlier so it's a matter of time for a turn around
Also Im framing this from 2-3 years ago before Florida started a genocide against trans people.
100% agree, though being better than America's current hell of Groomer Discourse and legislated genocide is not a high bar to clear . . .
I don't think Putin really gives a shit either way on gay rights. He just isn't interested enough to prevent gay people being murdered. But I also think that the only way Russia is going to get gay rights is an internal Russian movement.
Western support for gay rights around the world largely consists of articles along the lines of "this is Bob he lives in Uganda and is a secretly gay man risking execution if found he lives at 123 police-read-this street at the corner of this-article-will-get-him-killed avenue"
Don't forget infiltrating student movements to support color revolution, thereby damaging relationships between the state and student movements