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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Since this work contained positive depictions of gay men, explicit (by Chinese standards) gay sex scenes, and resurrected the ghost of Tiananmen Square, at the time, no mainland Chinese publisher would have published it, nor would the author be safe from government reprisals. Hence, its anonymous publication on the Internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lan_Yu_(film)

Ah, such a free and progressive society!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Nothing would ever satisfy you people lmao

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

What a comprehensive rebuttal to his counterpoint lol

You guys really have no idea what to say once you run out of prescripted talking points, huh?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

You decided to go out on a limb to defend the Chinese government, make a false implication about it, and when you're called on it, your answer is "Nothing would ever satisfy you people".

What did you expect when you lied?

Do you concede the below statement that you replied to? I'll re-paste it to confirm:

Since this work contained positive depictions of gay men, explicit (by Chinese standards) gay sex scenes, and resurrected the ghost of Tiananmen Square, at the time, no mainland Chinese publisher would have published it, nor would the author be safe from government reprisals. Hence, its anonymous publication on the Internet.

Do you accept that is true?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Satisfied with positive lgbt portayals being illegal to broadcast are you?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

so much better than america, where it just wouldn't be made in the first place

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Well you see wikipedia.org is actauly against china and its all fake made up by americans. /s

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It is not all fake, but your comment is basically true.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

It's heavily astroturfed by the US government, so your sarcastic comment was accidentally correct tito-laugh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Try fixing that section, which is entirely speculation, and see how quickly it gets reverted and by whom. You'll quickly run into either a power user with reactionary politics that should've been banned ages ago per Wikipedia's own policies or a series of FirstWordLastWord962578 accounts making reversions with no explanation.

The latter is what lazy government behavior looks like. The former is the larger social structures built around the acceptability and empowerments of reactionary thought and narratives that is inherently anticommunist.

But really, go do it. Remove the section as speculation and show/tell us what happens.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Wikipedia article speculation cited as fact on lemmy dot net.

Western propaganda is a series of clowns honking each other's noses all the way down.