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2026-04-26 04:08 UTC

Well it certainly doesn’t fit the picture I was described! I was told Uyghers were being killed in some cases, and rehoused en masse in others. If what you’re saying is right, and the Uygher culture is allowed to continue unharried outside of radical minorities then I would agree that doesn’t really compare to the horrors of colonization! Is it actually illegal to be queer there too? Or is that also exaggerated?

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@RiverRock@lemmy.ml 2026-04-26 05:57

God damn, you actually checked it out. I’m genuinely not used to that level of intellectual honesty on the internet

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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-04-26 10:42

It isn’t illegal to be queer, but gay marriage isn’t really legal either. It’s an upbill battle ironically held back by the fact that the PRC is a democratic country, and the older generations are still more socially conservative. As time goes on it has been getting better.

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@queermunist@lemmy.ml 2026-04-26 17:35

In addition to the older generations thinking queerness is yucky, there’s also the problem of the West using our rights as a bludgeon to justify sanctions and wars. I’ve seen Westerners try to justify the genocide in Gaza because “they’d throw you off a roof for being queer!” As if Israel isn’t actively blackmailing us into being traitors by threatening to out us to our families.

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