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Is it just someone in China or the CCP? The title and the content differs. My personal take: The CCP doesn’t have much of an interest in LGBTQ+ people. Their l
by _lvbh 3y ago
Is it just someone in China or the CCP? The title and the content differs.
My personal take:
The CCP doesn’t have much of an interest in LGBTQ+ people. Their laws are archaic but at least a few years ago, Chinese social media was full of content leaning towards LGBTQ (or maybe it was just my feed? ) and even with million+ views, they were not taken down.
- Kye 3y agoJo's toot says "Tencent/Alibaba/the CCP/whatever" because it's difficult, maybe impossible, to know for sure. I just simplified it to "someone in China." Same thing basically. From an opsec perspective, it's probably safest to assume it's the government and act accordingly. Governments and societies can turn quick on marginalized populations.
- xg15 3y agoEven if they don't have any interest specifically, this might be an automated effort to collect "contraband" which could later be used to threaten a person's reputation and blackmail them.
- _lvbh 3y agoIf they live outside China, how do you even blackmail them with this? They’re openly LGBTQ and that is perfectly accepted in the west.
- Kye 3y agoIt really isn't. There are pockets of high levels of acceptance and varying levels of tolerance. Societies and governments can turn on marginalized groups frighteningly fast even with this level of acceptance and tolerance. There's a years-long campaign to outlaw public existence for trans people in the US that's spreading to other countries along attempts to outlaw teaching (even in library book form!) about the existence of queer people throughout the US. Germany, and especially Berlin, were a lot like the US on queer rights and acceptance pre-WW2. The era's equivalent of a queer center was in one of those famous Nazi book burning photos. But to answer your question: sometimes people outside China have friends and family in China. Sometimes they're not out to friends and family or at work the way they are online, and people have a way of leaking enough details to connect pseudonyms to legal names without meaning to. There are many ways to weaponize this knowledge.
- skissane 3y ago> My personal take: The CCP doesn’t have much of an interest in LGBTQ+ people. Under Xi Jinping, the CCP has been moving in a more socially conservative direction, and becoming more opposed to LGBT rights – see e.g. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-beijing-lgbt-center-rcna85528 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-beijing-lgbt-center... The CCP would still prefer to not talk about the topic, as opposed to e.g. Russia where the government seeks to exploit anti-LGBT sentiment for domestic political benefit. But it is moving its position from "we'll tolerate LGBT activism so long as it stays low key" to "we won't tolerate LGBT activism"