NBC frets about lack of LGBT ‘safe spaces’ in China while Christians face persecution
Hudson Crozier
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The People’s Republic of China is an oppressive place with a government that doesn’t allow you to say anything bad about it. President Xi Jinping censors criticism on any issue from poverty, to brutal COVID-19 lockdowns, to state-sanctioned massacres, to anything that might reveal that he doesn’t care about his people’s well-being.
Christianity has always been the most powerful ideological threat to China, and other communist nations throughout history because it inspires loyalty to an authority higher than the state. Reports of religious persecution come out almost constantly.
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Christians in China face the threat of detainment, secretive “trials” that end with prison sentences, and even torture for who they worship. Government thugs demand that they exalt socialism in the place of biblical doctrine, even going as far as rewriting problematic passages of Scripture or keeping children out of church services, hoping their parents’ faith dies with them.
But according to NBC News, what’s really urgent for people around the world to know is that Jinping is shutting down LGBT-related organizations and social media accounts.
“For China’s LGBTQ community, safe spaces are becoming harder to find,” the outlet declared in a headline yesterday. It’s not referring to literal safety, as the entire piece doesn’t describe any threat of violence toward gay or transgender people. The only government persecution NBC reports is the same targeted censorship faced by many other people groups who offend Jinping.
“I know that queers [and] feminists in China know how to work a loophole, a cat door, a hairline fracture, a whisper, a metaphor, but soon that’s too subtle and quiet to reach the people who need it,” an activist told the outlet. “A secret handshake can’t replace a lighthouse.”
In March, a band of Chinese Christian families, including women and children, was captured by authorities in Thailand and faced the possibility of imprisonment and torture if returned. NBC’s website has no article on the event, much less a sappy feature story.
In fact, coverage of Christians by any entity under the NBCUniversal umbrella is overwhelmingly negative. Columnists, reporters, television commentators, and their handpicked guests frequently sound an alarm over the rise of “Christian nationalism” in the U.S., a “white” ideology with a “racist past.”
The mere idea that traditional Christian theism ought to inform matters of public policy or that America should return to its strong religious roots is an “oppressive message” that screams “theocracy,” according to their narrative.
Consequently, yesterday’s article drew attention to “conservative cultural values” as a leading cause of the suffering of gay and transgender people in China. Traditional beliefs on gender and sexuality are the new communism, and LGBT organizations are the new underground churches.
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Given these attitudes, it’s no wonder why those at NBC cover these topics so disproportionately and unfairly. They want the influence of Christianity out of society as badly as President Xi does. That doesn’t put them in good company.
Hudson Crozier is a summer 2023 Washington Examiner fellow.