Reminder: Don’t go to Shen Yun, it’s a cult.

With the Shen Yun tour returning to the DMV, along with a media blitz to sell tickets, I want to remind everyone that the Shen Yun show is propaganda for a Chinese cult - or, to be generous, a very very weird religion.

They market it as a dance show but halfway through they divert into their insane religious ideas and it gets super weird. Plus they have super dodgy/abusive practices.

Feel free to look into yourself, (great New Yorker article here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/stepping-into-the-uncanny-unsettling-world-of-shen-yun and NYT article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/nyregion/the-dark-side-of-shen-yun.html) If you even search the latest news on it, all you get a promotional (propaganda!) articles that they themselves put out.

Edit: I forgot that they’re super homophobic too. So I’m changing my message from “save your money” to “Don’t support them!!!”