China is cracking down on young women who write gay erotica
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At least 30 writers have been arrested across the country since February, a lawyer tells the BBC.

“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.

    • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      Nope, that’s been used for decades you are just seeing the limitations of google’s tools as it happened in places they do not index

      • nomoreyknsfaf@lemmings.worldEnglish
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        6 hours ago

        I mean there’s something very hypocritical in westerners, living in the countries who manufacture, sell, sometime give actual tanks all over the world, calling people “tankies” lmao

        We get it, the ussr sent tanks in the 80ies. Your country sent tanks half a dozen time since then, idiot. There are tanks doing genocide right now in gaza.

        • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          6 hours ago

          No, there isn’t. Anyone claiming to support the liberation of the working classes while praising authoritarian systems that are cracking down on those populations looking for freedom are hypocrites.

          It’s weird you would make this about geographic location. Are you doing that because you don’t have a valid critique?

      • nomoreyknsfaf@lemmings.worldEnglish
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        6 hours ago

        Prove it

        The term continued to be used into the 1980s, especially in relation to the split between the reform-minded eurocommunist wing of the CPGB and the traditionalist, pro-Soviet group, the latter continuing to be labelled tankies. The term is sometimes used within the Labour Party as slang for a politically old-fashioned leftist. Alastair Campbell reported a conversation about modernising education, in which Tony Blair said: “I’m with George Walden on selection.” Campbell recalled: “DM [David Miliband] looked aghast … [Blair] said when it came to education, DM and I were just a couple of old tankies.”[26] In 2015, Boris Johnson referred to Jeremy Corbyn and the left wing of the Labour Party as “tankies and trots”, the latter referring to Trotskyism.[27][b]

        Used by great people like tony blair and bobo the clown lmao