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I have some questions on LGBT content in Chinese webcomics, since English-speaking yuri communities always bring this up when they bash China:
1: what exactly happened to Tamen de Gushi? The story I always hear is that the CCP banned the webcomic because they showed the characters kiss.
2: I noticed some Chinese webcomics (specifically Straight Girl Trap and I Got a Girlfriend From a Shooting Star), whenever the characters kiss, would draw white spots/ have convenient light rays covering where the lips touch. For me it feels weird since these stories already have the characters in an official romantic relationship. Why do kisses get covered even when they have no issue showing a same-sex relationship in the same comic?

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The ‘Against’ vote from western countries like Spain/ Canada/ Ireland/ Netherlands/ Germany etc. is also likely due to the Russia-Ukraine war. The recent chain of ‘Against’ started in 2022. Before that those countries would all vote ‘Abstain’ and the only ones who vote against were USA and Ukraine.

I imagine some sort of ‘enemy is both weak and strong’ type of mindset. Like the Palestinian resistance are simultaneously authoritarian tyrants that can deny food and medicine to the whole of Gaza and pathetic losers who can’t feed themselves. That might be what’s going through their heads.

Speaking of Cuba, isn’t Israel also one of the few countries alongside US that consistently votes against lifting the blockade on Cuba? I guess going by their logic US and Israel hates gays.

For me it’s that ‘x ethnic group are mostly bigots so they deserve to be genocide/ oppressed’ is that it is just good victim bad victim argument. That they only want to extend aid (or rather like the idea of extending aid) to ‘cute’ or ‘cuddly’ or ‘tragic’ victims but their solidarity will disappear (or rather their lack of solidarity will reveal itself) if you refuse to fit that mould. For example a trans person in the imperial core who refuses to allow their identity to be used to spread colonial propaganda even when they are short of funds. Or a gay indigenous person who wants to attack their colonisers.
I’m neither Igbo nor a women but seeing this pink and purplewashing makes me appreciate Things Fall Apart did not shy away from showing Igbo misogyny/ more conservative elements. I can’t say if it was good representation but I think it was important they showed it since it does help push across the idea that native misogyny etc. is not an excuse for ‘civilising’ their society.
On Okonkwo’s fundamentalism, yes it is bad. But he was also one of the only few people at the start who wanted to force the colonisers out of their land first. It can be read as a statement on how societies under attack end up with very reactionary and rigid rulers in response because they are the only ones that do something so even if you hate their actions you realise that criticising them and only them is a very chauvinistic way of analysing the situation. Kind of like how people only criticise the homophobia but not actions done by imperial countries that make them see LGBT rights as not just immoral but a security threat like ‘blackmailing their local queers into becoming informants’ or ‘painting rainbow flags on the bombs they drop onto the country’.

From where I am from the biggest complaints of Chinese tourists come from universities. Mainly on them crowding services (ex. Shuttle buses) that are meant for students.

Meanwhile Israel itself also hopes that women and queer folk who object to their actions get brutalised, if not threaten to out you. Point this out however and they will accuse you of what about ism.

What is the Resolution Symbol (the unique ID the UN uses to label documents that goes something like ‘A/RES/[number]/[number]’) of this resolution? I am trying to consolidate all the votes of similar topics but I can only find the 2023 poll on the UN website (symbol is A/RES/78/83).
Also does anyone have any suggestions on UN vote resolutions relating to anti-nazism/ racism aside for the ‘Combat glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance’ polls?

These ‘x issues are dividing the working class’ lines is just trickle-down economics with race/ gender/ orientation etc.

I’m thinking call them Squealer and ask them how much milk and apples they were paid to spread their propaganda.

Prince Souphanouvong from Laos?

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Sri Lanka is participating in Operation Prosperity Garden meaning they are complicit in Palestinian genocide. I’m willing to bet Jessie either does not know, does not care or thinks this is good.

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Sri Lanka is participating in Operation Prosperity Garden, making them complicit in Palestinian genocide. I’m willing to bet this youtube either does not know, does not care or things it is good.

Saying “leave if you don’t like your country’s imperialism” is no different from saying “anyone who are not as racist as me should go kill themselves”.

Remember in 2010s those chuds would post “I am an attack helicopter, it is my gender identity to drop bombs on foreign countries and if you oppose you are transphobic” as malicious trolling?
If you think of it zionist (and I guess ‘vote for 99% hitler or you are transphobic’ liberal) pride is just taking that phrase (or at least the second part) and going ‘this but unironically’.

A thought experiment that came to my head: Say in an alternate timeline Biden is more or less the same or ‘okay’ on other issues but the ‘single issue’ is something else. The Israel-Palestine war either does not happen during his term or he gives a way more convincing 'anti-'genocide response. Instead he is either super pro-life or super transphobic. If the former alternate Biden actively works with republicans to pass bills to restrict abortion access and calls pro-choice protestors who get beaten up pro-baby murder. If the latter alternate Biden actively works with republicans to pass bills to criminalise trans people, calls trans-supportive parents and teachers child molestors and claims Rowling etc. are victims of cancel culture. How would liberals justify this as the lesser evil?

I guess compare them to their enemies? Put the two statements “Russia declared LGBTQ+ as a terrorist movement because the CIA (allegedly) uses LGBTQ+ organisations as fronts for spying” and “Israel kills Palestinian civilians because Hamas (allegedly) hides behind them” together. Ask why they think the latter is morally justified but not the former.