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.
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…
Hasn’t crossdressing been a thing in China since like…forever? Plus I was under the impression homosexuality didn’t become a political issue until the Qing Dynasty.
Yep, they’ve been doing that in opera performances for a very long time…