Comment on China’s new language law to criminalise advocacy of ethnic minority rights
Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours agoIt is a really racist and dictatorial policy:
The new law was needed to provide better legal safeguards for the party’s “ethnic work” in order to “maintain the security and stability of China’s border regions and ethnic regions […]
and
[there is] “no way” that non-Han people would be able to safely express “any type of discontent without being accused of being essentially separatists or terrorists."
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Mandating a single language to be used for full education is defintely not that. But the justifications for it can be interpreted as that, sure. And the whole supression of minority right issue is defintely not acceptable, but I wouldn’t say it’s exclusive to dictatorships.