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.
I guess the issue there would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Which I would believe would be the long-game planned by said American imperialists. They hope to get people across the world to associate social progressivism with imperialism which makes it easier to convert them to fascism and makes Western liberals say, “See, see, these people aren’t leftists they’re bigots!”