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[–] superkret@lemmy.ml 52 points 1 year 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!

[–] axont@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nothing would ever satisfy you people lmao

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year 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?

[–] abraxas@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year 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?

[–] Apollo@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Zastyion345@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Gracchibro1@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year 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.