All the news that's fit to . . . make you look like a bigot
This is from the AFP, via the Taipei Times. I bring it up not because it's another case of my sometime employer displaying an unnecessary (if kind of funny) bias regarding China, but because another kind of bias. Certainly this says bad things about the AFP, but even wire copy gets read by a bunch of people before it goes out, so the TT isn't off the hook either.Loony Ideas on the rise in China's "parliament"
China's parliament is widely seen as a rubber-stamp for the nation's Communist Party rulers, but that doesn't stop delegates and advisors from raising bold and sometimes wacky proposals.
This year has seen [a list of "loony ideas," including] proposed laws to legalize same-sex marriages . . . .
Granted, I'm sure the editors at the TT would argue that you do have to be "looney" to expect a same-sex marriage law to mean anything in the Chinese legislature (it didn't even get the thirty signatures out of more than 200 attendees it needed to be brought up for debate). But come on.
China's parliament is widely seen as a rubber-stamp for the nation's Communist Party rulers, but that doesn't stop delegates and advisors from raising bold and sometimes wacky proposals.
This year has seen [a list of "loony ideas," including] proposed laws to legalize same-sex marriages . . . .
Granted, I'm sure the editors at the TT would argue that you do have to be "looney" to expect a same-sex marriage law to mean anything in the Chinese legislature (it didn't even get the thirty signatures out of more than 200 attendees it needed to be brought up for debate). But come on.