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It is amusing. They could have gone on filling the oceans with plastic and using banned CFCs and gamifying life on Earth through Social Credit all while enjoying near total deference from the prevailing virtuegeist of the West. But instead they chose to mess with LGBTQ and all of the sudden they're evil incarnate.


This is easy to understand. All the things you mention are issues that affect everybody. A better understanding of what it means to be man affects a very small percentage, so when when a govt looks past everything it should care about in order to mess with natural roles then it is really obvious that they are in the wrong.


What gymnastics would you have performed if the systemic oppression of Uyghurs had been in my list? Another sin largely ignored by the echo chamber, yet one that certainly does single out a minority. Shall we speculate on the relative population sizes of 'effeminate' Chinese men vs Uyghurs while further regressing into this rationalization of selective outrage?


None, because that issue is hotly contested. This issue is not contested; there is no denial from them on this issue. If they are doing something wrong they know that it is wrong. Meanwhile they think this is something they can get away with openly.

I hope this clears up the confusion. There is no selectivity here.


Hotly contested? Uyghur oppression is some figment of our imagination? Will you assert that without the "hotly contested" weasel words?


No that seems like you are over-extending what I said. 'Hotly contested' doesn't imply there is substance to the context, only that there is great effort being made.


> 'Hotly contested' doesn't imply there is substance to the context, only that there is great effort being made.

This is incoherent.




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