• Yliaster@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    They’re still banning TV shows/clips that feature queer stories or characters, there’s been literal police raids where people have been asked to remove rainbow articles of clothing, rainbows are censored on TV. This is all very recent stuff within the past five years.

    Idk man, seems like they’re desperate to erase our existence if you ask me.

    Even if it’s not “as bad” as it once was, and if it “has potential”, that’s not where it is right now. Which is that it’s an oppressive place for queer people right now, factually. Stop defending that.

    China isn’t the perfect haven free from all criticism that some people make it out to be.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      I’m not defending repression, I’m pointing out that you’re using queer identity as a club to beat a country that is steadily improving and showing no signs of slowing or stopping that growth. It’s the same logic on your part that Zionists use to say queer advocates for Palestine are “defending homophobia.” History and social progress exist as a progression of time, not as a static snapshot.