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Do not always trust Wikipedia or some articles written by activists. They tend to pick one or two events and generalize it. Those selected truths give you a wrong picture.
I can tell you that homosexuality was almost never a topic in my family, for example. People were simply not interested in it in old days.
In Qing dynasty, few if any men were punished for having sex with men. In fact, a lot of rich men like to play with Peking opera actors (all men at that time), and the most famous classic novel in China "dream of the red chamber" describes homosexuality many times.
I never heard any gay was put in reeducation camps either. If it happened, most likely it was because they were caught in public places. All "criminals" were sent to the camps at that time.
It's a Chinese website based in Beijing, hardly anti-China propaganda...
I think you are looking too highly on your government during the cultural revolution. I'm not anti-China amd every country has had its problems. The West killed homosexuals for almost 2 thousand years, and now it's legal for them to marry. It's not unrealistic to think gay marriage will be legal within a couple decades in China.
Your 2nd paragraph is exactly why I think China will quickly change on homosexuality. China has a strong family unit and tradition of that. But China is not socially conservative compared to how the West used to be. China historically has been accepting (or tolerant if you want) of homosexuality and of other things like race and religion. China has always been a fairly open country, and that didn't change until very recently.
I think you like arguing because you're not really disagreeing with me.
It's a Chinese website based in Beijing, hardly anti-China propaganda...
I think you are looking too highly on your government during the cultural revolution. I'm not anti-China amd every country has had its problems. The West killed homosexuals for almost 2 thousand years, and now it's legal for them to marry. It's not unrealistic to think gay marriage will be legal within a couple decades in China.
Your 2nd paragraph is exactly why I think China will quickly change on homosexuality. China has a strong family unit and tradition of that. But China is not socially conservative compared to how the West used to be. China historically has been accepting (or tolerant if you want) of homosexuality and of other things like race and religion. China has always been a fairly open country, and that didn't change until very recently.
I think you like arguing because you're not really disagreeing with me.
My point is, you based your argument on some random things you read, which gives you a wrong picture.
Sometimes grabbing just a piece of truth is misleading. Heard of "blind men and an elephant"?
Cultural revolution has nothing to do with homosexuality at all. If some gay people were persecuted occasionally at that time, it was irrelevant. Even if there were no cultural revolution, some gay people would still have been persecuted. However, in any case, there is no evidence to show that gays were persecuted en masse to begin with.
I was arguing because I felt what you described is not accurate. And it seems you cannot understand it because of your experience. Never mind.
I have never heard of any clinics like that. They must be underground if there are some.
So the bottom line is such clinics are far from common.
Well I read this on a news site and the interviewee said that there are a lot of those in 3rd and 4th tier cities in China. He did say that they are largely underground, pretending to be like a normal clinic or something, but apparently it's quite a business. The clinics would "treat" the "patients", aka gay men, by eletrification or hypnosis.
I don't think they are common either, but considering how big China is a few of those is like a mega ton. Apparently Channel 4 from Britain has done a documentary thingy about this as well.
Well I read this on a news site and the interviewee said that there are a lot of those in 3rd and 4th tier cities in China. He did say that they are largely underground, pretending to be like a normal clinic or something, but apparently it's quite a business. The clinics would "treat" the "patients", aka gay men, by eletrification or hypnosis.
I don't think they are common either, but considering how big China is a few of those is like a mega ton. Apparently Channel 4 from Britain has done a documentary thingy about this as well.
Of course there are clinics like that in China. There are plenty of these hack clinics in the US, and America is light years ahead of China on gay rights.
I don't think anyone would trust communists, maybe except for some really dumb Chinese ppl and pennyone, but this is just pure homophobia and bigotry.
Hay did you say you live on taiwan? Hopefully Tsai will do something even "dumber" and renounce the 92 consensus. Then you'll be swimming for asylum as the missiles wipe out your little island. LOL
What's a secret? Your ignorance? That's no secret.
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