I just want to know what has actually happened in the world so I can live in reality lol

what is falun gong, who runs it, who funds it, how has the CPC cracked down on it, etc

sifting through the google results is just maddening

  • volkvulture [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    pseudo-religious nativist movement associated with the 1990s rise in qigong practice & all of its associated self-reflective cultural & ethnocentric results.

    a lot of this stuff resulted in some confusing "alternative lifestyle & medicine" kookiness that disrupts education & scientific understanding. so when this particular group was banned, (after initially being promoted by officials as healthy exercise & self-discipline) Falun Gong took a really hardline anti-CPC stance, and i think were picked up early on in "the West" as a group to promote.

    they run the Shen Yun dance troupes that periodically tour metro areas in the West. It's an anti-communist cult. There's a part in the Shen Yun production where these ninjas with hammer & sickle designs on their tunics pop out and they try to make it seem like they're harvesting the poor apolitical Chinese flow arts practitioners' eyeballs.