Boycotting every establishment with a Shen Yun poster

[u/Loner_Gemini9201]

So for those of you who don't know, Shen Yun is run by a far-right cult known as the Falun Gong. This cult is racist, homophobic, misogynistic, and does not deserve to be allowed in a sane society.

Thus, every establishment I see advertising it, I'm no longer going to purchase from. I don't care if it's a coffee shop, grocery store, etc. They won't get my money and I'll leave a bad review to let others know not to support them.

[u/Lower-Fact-8406]

A lot of places will allow posters in support of the community- they may not necessarily know what Shen Yun is, especially since they intentionally advertise themselves as a dance performance of sorts to obfuscate their purpose. I’ve spent 15 years explaining this to nonplussed people thinking they were supporting a cultural performance. Have you tried reaching out to the businesses to let them know?

[u/Loner_Gemini9201 → u/Lower-Fact-8406]

I remember going to Chinatown in Chicago and saw a Falun Gong demonstration in the town center... I was disgusted and left very shortly after that.

Also, a lot of the businesses that put them up? Guess... sadly they're Chinese-owned a lot of the time, especially Chinese restaraunts!

[u/bunker_man → u/Loner_Gemini9201]

As much as shen Yun is a crazy cult, I can sympathize with Chinese people wanting something Chinese to have a place in American culture. Westerners aren't going to randomly join falun gong, So they might reason that the fact that it is a weird cult matters less than the fact that it is putting chinese faces into a well known place in the west.

Someone I know who was Asian explained to me that way. They made fun of the actual beliefs, But said that for personal reasons being an asian in a place where asians weren't common they wanted to bring people to it to feel like Asian coded stuff was getting bigger in the west. Maybe that's not a perfect justification, but I can understand someone thinking about it that way.

[u/fox_in_a_spaceship → u/bunker_man]

This is absolutely the wrong way to support Chinese culture though. Besides the fact its' not even bonafide Chinese culture, they take advantage of Chinese immigrants who don't know better, who then eventually fall into the cult and end out spending their days doing free labor and rejecting modern medicine. Plenty of Chinese people have family who are victims of them and hate them as well.