“I’ve been warned not to talk about it,” the woman wrote, before revealing snippets of the day she says she was arrested for publishing gay erotica.
“I’ll never forget it - being escorted to the car in full view, enduring the humiliation of stripping naked for examination in front of strangers, putting on a vest for photos, sitting in the chair, shaking with fear, my heart pounding.”
The handle, Pingping Anan Yongfu, is among at least 8 in recent months which have shared accounts on Chinese social media platform Weibo of being arrested for publishing gay erotic fiction. As authors recounted their experiences, dozens of lawyers offered pro bono help.
At least 30 writers, nearly all of them women in their 20s, have been arrested across the country since February, a lawyer defending one told the BBC. Many are out on bail or awaiting trial, but some are still in custody. Another lawyer told the BBC that many more contributors were summoned for questioning.
You don’t even have to be charged with anything before ICE grabs you off the street at throws you in a van in the US…
Very typical .ml whataboutism. Both things can be bad at the same time. This is not a null sum game.
It’s not whataboutism to tell the pot to shut the fuck up when it’s calling the kettle black
Can you connect these dots for me?
Nah.
Yeah, unfortunately the US is becoming more and more like China in this regard.
Yes it’s fucking horrible, I have the misfortune of living in the US but the same goes for China, North Korea, Russia and I could go on.
Which is true for China as well
And I assume you wish the US to keep doing that because China is doing that and it’s clearly working?
I’m simply responding to the commenter’s comparison to “the west”. Like, if that’s the game we’re gonna play I think I just scored a point. Both situations are obviously terrible duh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_black
My own similar behavior? I’m not shoving gays into prison, you fucking idiot.
This isn’t high school debate club and knowing two latin words doesn’t make you smart
Your behavior would have gotten you kicked out of a high school debate club by now.
Very USA-Centric of you lol
USA =/= “The West”
USA is very much the “west”.
The “west” is a code for “country who think of themselves as white and civilised”.
The US is part of the west. If it happens in the US, it happens in the west, because the US is in the west.
Also useless whataboutism. The sign of someone who has no arguments left to defend their beliefs.