{"id":14617,"date":"2021-07-11T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T02:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=14617"},"modified":"2021-07-11T02:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T02:00:16","slug":"chinese-social-media-shutdown-of-lgbt-student-groups-highlights-growing-nationalist-backlash-against-western-influences-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=14617","title":{"rendered":"Chinese social media shutdown of LGBT student groups highlights growing nationalist backlash against \u2018Western\u2019 influences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe closure of dozens of LGBT student organisations\u2019 WeChat accounts this week may be the result of a larger Chinese nationalist backlash against perceived Western influences, according to cultural academics.\u201cThere is a tendency in China for some people to relate homosexuality and LGBT people to Western lifestyles or capitalistic, bourgeois decadence, so this was in line with a moral panic,\u201d said Hongwei Bao, an associate professor of media studies at the University of Nottingham and specialist\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3140626\/chinese-social-media-shutdown-lgbt-student-groups-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe closure of dozens of LGBT student organisations\u2019 WeChat accounts this week may be the result of a larger Chinese nationalist backlash against perceived&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}