• superkret@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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!

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        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?

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        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?

      • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        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.

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      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.