one thing most any leftist will say about china despite supporting the country is that they're a very traditionalist culture, and so LGBTQ issues in particular are a blight on leftist westerner's otherwise positive view of china.
upon scrolling thru rednote, i think that's bullshit now. i really don't think you're worse off being LGBTQ in china than you are in america. yeah, you can't get married, but that right is under constant threat of being taken away in the US anyway and let's be real- it probably will be taken away. meanwhile, china is making progress on that front, the US wants to regress.
i saw multiple LGBTQ people on rednote. i saw a lesbian couple, one of the girls even said "LGBT is completely normal in china now, especially in the cities. even the older generations who might not accept it mind their own business". can that be said about america? how many queer people here have been accosted by some boomer who couldn't mind their own business? i saw the gayest fucking dude i've ever seen in my life (that's a compliment). he was also wearing makeup and sassily singing along with destiny's child. completely comfortable in his skin and with his identity, and while all of the comments and his speaking were in mandarin that i couldn't understand, you can tell by the vibe it was all positive. meanwhile in progressive america, if you're a guy who wants to put on makeup and go live on tiktok you're gonna face all sorts of homophobia and bigotry.
one of the few things western liberals could really say about china, that even those of us who are left wing and pro china thought to be at least somewhat true, appears to just straight up not be true.
The most substantial predudice I've seen on xhs has been antisemitism, which was surprising due to how few Jewish people live in China
Not sure about xiaohongshu cos I don’t use it (ironic I know lol, too bourgeois/lib for me), but I think the most common on Chinese social media is casual racism against Indians.
It’s one of the few things I really dislike about the Chinese social media spaces.
Racism against Indians is mostly geopolitical. Most of the stuff that they point out on India are: the people are dirty, full of slums and full of pollutions
Chinese chauvinists really need to remember how bad the inequality when liberalization happened in the 90s and it is not dissimilar to nowadays India (and how some of the shit we throw at India still persist in the least developed area of China). Sometime it is helpful to think twice before spitting into the air.
I live in the west and the anti-indian sentiment is rolled in with local racist stereotypes. I've seen content of white settlers and Chinese people jointly complaining that capital cities have turned into 'little India'. If I see another xhs user call an Indian person A3 istg
There is no such thing as Chinese people, just failed in becoming white people.
There is a lack of awareness in Chinese that get shit on by the westerners at the height of COVID and the Hongkong Extradition Act protests but will happily join the same people in bashing brown people.