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  • They aren’t LGBT friendly, but I don’t think they are as bad as US conservatives. Most conservative Chinese people would talk behind your back like “look at that gay couple, so weird”, but most people aren’t gonna be shouting at your face or attacking you, at worst, you get get labeled the “weirdo” of the village. If you’re in the city, that doesn’t even matter much.

    The CCP doesn’t actively hunt down people unless they protest about it. It’s sorta a “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” situation. You won’t get protection from discrimination, you wont get LGBT media on tv, you can’t have LGBT events in public, but at least you can quietly live your life.











  • China has private bussinesses, rich billionaire CEOs (billionaire as in measured in USD currency, not Renminbi), hospitals deny emergency care if you don’t pay upfront (this is actually very common that it’s a common plot point in Chinese TV shows), there are still lanlords despite what westerners think Mao did, I have relatives in China that owns a few apartments in the city, although, they aren’t “real” landlords since they technically only have a 70-year lease from the government, but for all intents and purposes, they are landlords, there is no courts to hear an eviction case, they just present the lease to police and if they side with the landlord, they’ll show up to evict. But most of the time, the landlord doesn’t even involve police and just change the locks when the tenant is away.

    Not Socialist at all. A “liberal” state in the US is far more Socialist than an average Chinese city.