I’ll try but dont trust me, feel free to read up herr very well written views on twitter (unless they’ve been wiped from the internet) I feel like she bucked at the expectation to be constantly fighting the chinese system on behalf of a lot of people who saw her as their revolutionary on the inside while those same people refused to listen to anything positive she would say about the more recent and relevant life experience of those living under the same system.

I felt some parallels being someone who’se living a very lefty life in the US but is FROM Israel and each and every mention became an opportunity for someone to ask me to affirm all their various badly held beliefs coming from which ever side they chose to take in the telenovela version of the country they knew about.

there are more specific cases like how queer culture over there is practiced VERY differently (which honestly was interesting) and wasnt really acknoledged by people

I think it’s the corollary to “Everyone is the hero of their own story” which is “everyone mistakenly treats others as merely side characters in their own story” and it happens at all levels of society.