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      Can you tell me why do you think this law is bad?

      It bans acts that “undermine ethnic unity or create ethnic division” among China’s 56 officially recognized ethnicities

      Should we strive for divisions among ethnicities? Like burgerland?

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          It’s just the same old ML supporting ethnic cleaning when it’s what they’re told to support.

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            Ah nice, you don’t know how to reply and start inventing shit. Very smart discussion. Still waiting to know how the law is bad eh… (͡•_ ͡• )

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              You don’t know if you support this or not? Sounds like you heard “China” and came to argue without having a personal view. Before I answer your questions, I need to know where you stand on it. Or do you not have individual thoughts and feelings?

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          The same right wings that tells you to hate brown people? These unity talk you mean? 🫤

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            The same one talking about ethnic unity within their preferred groups yeah

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              Within and among are different words in English with different meanings but ok.

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                I’m guessing it’s a translation issue since the law mandates using Mandarin etc

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                  Yes, as a main language not as only language. Again here English language did a trick ehehe sneaky little education…

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            Yes, like American bigots screaming ‘love it or leave it,’ and ‘stand for the flag, kneel for the cross,’ or other demands to adopt an identity rooted in American nationality with allegiance to ethnic majority culture.

            The ones trying to make the majority language the only official primary language, even in communities where yeehaw jingoism has done considerable damage, or outright stolen entire nations’ worth of land.

            The ones eager to project that, globally, as if sovereignty is when you get to say what people do in other countries.

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        It is bad because out of China’s 56 officially recognized ethnicities, 55 are suppressed, and this law makes everything worse.

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          55 are suppressed

          I guess the source is your cousin living there right?

          this law makes everything worse

          …by reasons that can’t be explained. Ok, cool. Good talk.

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        why is having an identity that isn’t common considered division?

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          You guys really don’t know how to read. Nowhere in the article it says that they ban or consider it a “division” being of a different ethnicity other than the main one, you just made shit up.

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            I’m literally replying to your quote from the article?

            did you read the article?

            Organizations and individuals outside mainland China that “undermine” ethnic unity or “create ethnic division” will also be held liable, the law says – a broad-based stipulation that critics say will impact activism, research and discussion of ethnic minority issues globally.

            if you are held legally liable that means your not allowed to do the thing. how is that not a ban?

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              if you are held legally liable that means your not allowed to do the thing. how is that not a ban?

              Re-read the sentence but slowly. Yes, you are held legally accountable if you create divisions among or undermine the 56 different officially recognised ethnicities.

              The same way the US or Russia or Israel (and their agency and organisations) should be held responsible for instigating divisions in other countries. That’s really it.

              It’s “”banning”” foreign interference in the social and ethnic fabric of the country. Oh no!! Can you imagine the US without Israeli interference? People would be forced to think by themselves!!

              You can spin it and call it what you want, but you can’t change reality. Unfortunately for you this is not what the law we are discussing says.

              And if you are thinking: “holdup, this is challenging my worldview too much! Is it possible that I’m wrong? No CNN must be right!” I have a lot of bridges to sell to you man.

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                It’s banning schools in Tibetan, in Tibet.

                Can you imagine Quebec without Quebecois? And threatening prison for anyone, anywhere, saying that’s deliberate cultural erasure?

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          How promoting unity among ethnicities a bad thing? At least on paper yes I agree with it.

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              Bro what are you smoking? Ahahah did you just let the autocorrect reply? Wtf

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                So you don’t actually have your own thoughts and feeling on the subject? Do you or do you not support this law in China?

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                  So you don’t know how to write or how to read. I already wrote my “feelings” above :/ do you want me to quote myself or you know how to search for it?

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        What they mean by division is other cultures existing.

        What they mean by unity is everyone acting like Beijing, or getting re-educated.

        If you applied this to Burgerland it would mean Spanish is illegal and Muslims better watch their ass. Which you’d surely have no trouble condemning, since it’s obviously intolerable and the Bad Camp did it.

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          According to your special mind. In the meantime the law says something else. The other languages in china are not banned, you are just fabricating a reality you feel comfortable in. It’s okay boy, as long as you are happy, I’m happy :)

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              Ah, looks like you finished your tokens for today. Would you like to buy 100 more tokens for the low low price of 259,99$?

              Sorry I don’t take questions from rude users who think they are right until their back is against the wall. You can go read the article, it’s in English.

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                The article that says they’re banning schools in other languages? Like we’re talking about, and you’re denying? You fraud?

                You can weasel around and say it’s only the primary language, but that’s still banning schools… in other languages. It’s turning every identity besides Han + Mandarin into a secondary identity, barely tolerated, with oversight. It makes their existence conditional on ongoing state approval. That’s ethnic cleansing. That’s bloodless erasure of any local identity, where local can mean, the entirety of Tibet.

                You don’t get to sneer ‘RTFA!’ when TFA opens with ‘loyalty to the party is mandatory.’

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                  Hey no, no you are getting boring now, don’t do this to me bro.

                  Let’s do this game, I won’t reply anymore until you find me in the article the words “banning schools”. You said the article said it, please quote.

                  Maybe you are referring to this bit (?):

                  Under the new rules, schools and government agencies must use Mandarin Chinese as their primary language; classrooms must ensure that their curriculum “forges a strong sense of the community of the Chinese people,” and all parents must guide children to “love the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people.”

                  Unfortunately you refuse to understand the English language.

                  It’s turning every identity besides Han + Mandarin into a secondary identity, barely tolerated, with oversight. It makes their existence conditional on ongoing state approval. That’s ethnic cleansing.That’s bloodless erasure of any local identity, where local can mean, the entirety of Tibet.

                  This vomit is pure fabrication.

                  Bear in mind, I’m dog-walking all of you fucks using CNN AS A SOURCE. I didn’t even put my sources because you racists babies immediately start screaming “Aaaaa we only like white people newspaperrr!!! Everything else is propaganda!!”

                  🥱

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    Remind me of Quebec forcing women to remove their hijab to be able to work in governmental jobs

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      Quebecker here: our secularism law is shit and I have the right to join, donate to, volunteer for, express publicly my support for and in a couple of months also vote for a political party that advocates for abolishing it. And my party’s MPs are able to go in the Assemblée Nationale and bring up the issue and raise hell. By the way, if you agree with me, give us a hand, eh? https://don.quebecsolidaire.net/ I’m also able to participate in, support and donate to civil society organizations or minority groupings that also advocate for the same. For example, you can donate here: https://nccm.ca/ even if you’re not muslim.

      If I were leaving under the Chinese system I wouldn’t be able to do any of those things.

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        I appreciate the effort and we should do effort regardless of how improbable it is to happen. In short term there is nothing we can do. A system that allow you to speaks but never listen to you is better than an authoritarian regime that may jail you for your demands but it is still bad.

        Sometimes we are still very close to Chinese oppression tactics like during the 2012 Quebec student protests

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      Not the same thing really, In Quebec, the government is strictly secular, so government officials also cannot wear crucifixes either.

      If that woman was forced to wear a cross instead, then it would be similar.

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        It is the same thing you restrict people right for an identity you decided to pick for everybody. Did Quebec consulted the first nations before imposing this. Real secularism is religion do not control the state and the state do not control the religion.

        Forced to wear or forced not to wear is the same thing

        The party quebecois and caq are racist parties rejecting multiculturalism like China

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        Laicite is not secularism. The American government (in theory) is strictly secular, but that means they can’t tell employees not to do religious shit on their own time. A state employee with an unremarkable necklace or a headscarf is not the state pushing that religion on you, any more than a bare neck and visible ears are pushing irreligion on you.