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10 arrested for writing gay erotica in China as part of nationwide crackdown
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this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2025
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In total there were 50 people arrested, in case anyone thinks China was only targeting gay erotica. They just hate porn.
Whatever it takes to reduce the blow to china right?
Odd sentiment from someone deliberately lying for the purposes of propaganda
Are you even getting paid for this?
That’s rich coming from .ml
Would you like a more state sponsored telling?:
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3293014/chinese-police-target-writers-gay-erotica-prison-terms-and-heavy-fines
You deliberately misled people by telling a partial truth and your response to being called out is "lol you're from the instance I'm posting on"?
You come here and deliberately lie to do propaganda and at the same time you're backslapping about how you're fishing for a ban to parade around. You should get banned. You're a bad actor.
I’m not OP genius.
And oh no, not a ban from the troll farm of Lemmy. Whatever will I do?
You'll probably be miserable and antisocial out of sight and out of mind
You lost. Haha. Cry and run away.
Is this the "rational thinking and supportive behavior to convince people on your ideas" that you said I should adopt to avoid "push[ing] people away and remind them of how they don’t want anything to do with the “left”"?
I’m just using your tactics. They work well.
The tactics you were disagreeing with were me asking people where they picked up the habit kf having strong dismissive opinions before investigating a topic and calling out national chauvinism. You are engaging in childish taunting.
Though I am, of course, perfectly happy with my approach and have been. You are being hypocritical.
So do you think people should be arrested for writing erotic fiction?
It seems you are crashing out by asking this question everywhere rather than engage in good faith.
what
what?
The correct response to being corrected on media illiteracy is "thank you".
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3293014/chinese-police-target-writers-gay-erotica-prison-terms-and-heavy-fines
Here is another. Your personal views of media literacy are similar to that of a MAGA.
Why would I need another? Your selective reading of the original you posted is what was pointed out.
Re: MAGA, lazy sinophobia and only seeing the red meat for it is more of their thing. Not, "here is the rest of the context you ommitted". If that is your metric for badnesd, you are guiltu of it.
Do you think people should be arrested for writing dirty fiction?
Please do your best to reply to what I say rather than changing the subject.
I’m returning to the main topic. Do you or don’t you.
You're just bailing on the rabbit hole you chose to go down because you ran out of retorts. My replies to "the main topic" are already there and cover adding additional context and calling out poor behavior or problematic tendencies. So far you have not directly addressed any of those things. Are you sure that's what you want to discuss?
Okay? So let’s leave the rabbit hole you dug and just go back to the actual topic.
I guess you’re too afraid to answer it, so you divert the conversation into your comfort zone.
You're free to make as many posts as you'd like about whatever topic you'd like, but I won't be pretending you aren't just bailing on a comment chain because you ran out of steam.
Just be honest, friend. It's a lot less work to just be honest. You are way too invested in fighting to the death and aren't seeing reason.
Yes you win the rabbit hole. So, yes or no?
Feel free to make a top level comment and I will feel free to respond to it or not.
Nah
Where's the lie?
Who said lie?
I only stated the truth.
For some reason, you don't like that.
Do you think people should be arrested for writing dirty stories?
They were arrested for mass distribution, not for writing. Keep in mind this law was written before the internet, back then distributing 5000 copies was a fairly large operation. I don't think the writers of the law foresaw a future where distributing 5000 copies of a work could be done instantly and in many cases for free (although the punishment is more severe based on income)
I'm only clarifying the facts. My personal opinions on the matter are quite different.
Do you think people should be arrested for writing an erotic fiction book?
No, but I don't think posting misleading headlines in an English-speaking forum is the way to change that.
It’s not misleading. It’s just focusing on one aspect of a much larger problem. The article never said “only gay fiction.”
You seem to exist on both sides of this topic. It must be exhausting to be queer, and pro-china, since you’re definitely not welcome there.
The article clarifies, but you know people don't read articles. Posters read headlines and then go right to the comments section. All I was doing was taking the information in the article and posting it in the comments section.
And it's not like I'm fucking welcome in my own home lol
But it’s not important to create an argument against something just because you dislike the title of the article. It just makes you sound like you’re in favor of locking them up.
It's important for discussions to be based in reality and not a misleading title.
It’s not misleading. It’s just focused on a specific group, because that’s the publication. You’re asking a lot from “journalists” ;)
Even if you allow for the special focus it still implies China is targeting gay erotica, as opposed to gay erotica. Those are very different stories. Plus, this forum doesn't have a focus on any specific groups for which the publication's bias should be accounted.
And so that's what I did. I clarified what was missing in the title. That's all.
Just did your job eh?
I do this for fun. Not everyone is a paid shill out to get you.
You sure don’t seem to be having fun on here