Police arrest scores of Chinese women writing 'boy love' fiction for money
www.abc.net.au
Police in China are arresting female authors of homosexual romance novels, in a widespread crackdown on the "boys love" fiction genre.

(boy’s love writers, so i guess more yaoi then slash) admit i didn’t read the whole article because it seems ridiculous and western reporting on China is like 90% fabrications. someone educate me on whatever this is. is it conservative local governments doing local government shit?

my partner loves this shit especially from China and i don’t want to inform her about some made up BS designed to radicalize the slash and yaoi community against the CPC

    • CrawlMarks [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      8 days ago

      I’ll doubble down. I have no doubt a thing like that has happened. However I would bet money that the RFA reporting on that incident is meaningfully different enough as to make any attempt at analyzing meaning from it misleading and useless.

        • Monstertruckenjoyer [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          9·
          8 days ago

          He’s doubting RFA’s reporting, not that China has never committed a human rights violation.

          If your question is “how can we, the West, analyze and critique this” then the answer is that we cannot based on biased sources

            • Monstertruckenjoyer [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
              6·
              8 days ago

              I’m saying this is impossible to properly dissect with this source. I’m not attacking you lol, I’m trying to explain the disagreement

              My bad for assuming you’re from “the West” though. It’s a predominantly English speaking forum so that’s the baseline I was working with

            • AnarchoAnarchist [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
              41·
              8 days ago

              Jumping to assume the most nefarious possible motive based on a western propaganda outlet is silly.

              Nobody has said it is impossible that China has engaged in persecution of LGBTQIA+ people. But we have pointed out assuming this is an example of discrimination, based on a piece of propaganda, from an outlet with the mission to make China look as bad as possible, without anything close to independent corroboration, is foolish.

                • AnarchoAnarchist [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  51·
                  8 days ago

                  All I know is if you assume the opposite of whatever the US State Department or it’s affiliated media outlets says, you will be right more often than not.

                  State Department says “Evil SeeSeePee hates the gays and so they arrested a bunch of them” - I will assume the opposite until and unless credible reporting comes out to corroborate the propaganda outlets claims.

        • CrawlMarks [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          4·
          8 days ago

          Yes. I am saying the reporting of RFA is specifically removed from context to the extent that if they have a story about a true event reading it will likely lead you to an incorrect conclusion. So in effect any story you see there is fake.