This. The wrath and reaction you see from people even on the left to the suggestion that they might need to educate themselves on privilege is really telling.

See: stupidpol and other class reductionists, the pronoun struggle session before the transphobes got purged.

There’s a reason libs co-opted a lot of the language around privilege. Pseudo-leftists based in contrarianism completely miss that aspect.

If I remember correctly, the “effeminacy” thing China has been gunning against isn’t about gender expression as much as “idol culture”. I’ll see if I can find the threads I was reading on that from a queer activist in China.

As is typical, the western media happily jumped on trying to use this as a propaganda angle. The thread I was reading had some criticism of other policies because China isn’t a utopia, but it was pretty clear on the intent there.

Edit: Found it. Thread on the topic from our comrades over at r/GenZedong.

Another twitter thread on the topic.

Hexbear thread from Alaskaball