I have been lurking on Chinese social media because I’m sort of a native Chinese speaker. In China’s leftist scene, a lot of the “patriot”, anti-imperialist, pro-CPC folks are extremely anti-feminist, anti-LGBT, racist, xenophobic, anti-semitic, and islamophobic.

Of course CPC itself doesn’t slightly take those stances. However I’m worried if it grows out of control it might be a problem in the future, as some of those leftist influencers have millions of social media followers.

    • aworldtowin@lemmy.ml
      35·
      3 years ago

      This is exactly it. The older generations are more homophobic and the like, and rather than seeing acceptance of it as societal progress they view it as something imposed on their culture by the imperialists. Naturally the younger crowd is more accepting, but the people that really push this stuff (from their perspective) liberals that are shitting on their country. They’re so used to hearing shit about how their country is so oppressive, no freedom, the typical liberal bs and the LGBT culture issues come across as identical and they don’t see it as a real issue. Especially the older people, since the younger generation in general is more pro-west. To be frank they see it as something akin to “western imposed degeneracy”.

      • TheConquestOfBed@lemmy.ml
        271·
        3 years ago

        It’s so weird that they never see the irony in “if you do minority rights better than the US they lose that much power to talk shit about you.” Like Chinese politicians are amazing at clapping back on western hyprocrisy. Imagine how much more material they’d have if LGBT rights in China actually were better than the west’s.

    • Eat_Yo_Vegetables69
      26·
      3 years ago

      That’s the impression I’ve gotten when asking some older family members living there about this kind of stuff (e.g. the LGBT+ situation). Some of them considered it as a foreign concept which was “brought over here by the west with possibly nefarious purposes”.

      Others just treated it as a “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t care” type of situation…