this user said literally that in my last post: https://lemmy.selfhostcat.com/comment/147777 (and yeah they probably fit the bill of tankie)
(please reconsider your “strawman” judgement in light of this information; i’m trying to keep the comments from getting derailed and locked like last time 😊)
we needed an example subject XD
i don’t. i see plenty of trolls whom i agree with, they are just dicks about it obviously looking to get a rise out of people.
i treat them the same way as all trolls: ignore, downvote, block, report if against the rulez. not that hard nor complicated.
not very lobster of you 🦞
here im more into the positive encouragement of good quality content than negative actions like defederation, but i technically can’t talk cuz im neither .world nor .ml 👍
genuinely i think you get mixed answers because it’s a mixed reality haha
i downloaded xiaohongshu (rednote) and there’s a pretty big gay community on there; if there is censorship it’s not on a scale that incredibly different from what the anglophone internet (tiktok, meta etc) experiences. ironically, most of the trans-/homophobia i have seen on that site comes from clearly american users.
that said, while there is no longer law against same-sex relationships, there’s no recognition or protection from discrimination either. further, the government is known to do censorship and sometimes worse (harassment) to queer representation. if you want to be a queer activist or make a movie or tv show with a queer couple, that’s gonna be a lot harder than, say, the usa.
tldr it’s a mixed bag but a slightly different mixed bag than you and i might be used to
(all of this stated as an outsider looking in, i’m pretty confident that i am well informed but others could certainly do better)
i agree :(
(that said i can’t tell if you are accusing me of it or not? let me know i suppose)
(i deleted the previous post because i saw how it could come off wrong, thx yall for your patience)
yeah let me just get right on that. we all know it’s impossible to talk about more than one human rights violation at once. :P
Thank you for your commentary. There is 100% potential for posts like this to be tainted with bigotry (especially once comments get going) so clarification is vital.
I do take issue with you accusing me of doing “Both Sides.” My original goal was and remains just to improve the quality and accuracy of memes about the CCP; I was sick and tired of “Pooh Bear What Happened in Tiananmen Square lol” content which does tend to veer especially into the reductive, ignorant, and sometimes sinophobic.
In the past I have focused my efforts on improving memes regarding the atrocities in the US and Palestine, and am now simply wanting to do the same thing here. I welcome feedback on how I can clarify and improve my rhetoric but I am not just going to shut up.