It would be a red flag if the law interfered with the many regional laws that mandate minority languages be taught in schools. This law does not do that at all. It explicitly guarantees the right to learn and use minority languages. To compare it to the cultural genocide of settler colonial countries that enforced language bans with violence and brutality is ridiculous.
Also don’t just apply whatever context you’re familiar with onto China. You’re severely underestimating the amount of cultural and lingual diversity in China. As I said before, Mandarin is a constructed language that was developed relatively recently, very unlike Russian. The vast majority of people in China do not learn Mandarin as their first language. That includes most of China’s political leaders. You’re basically trying to suggest that these people want to destroy their own regional languages and culture which is just absurd.
antisoumerde@quokk.au 4 days ago
CulTural GenoCide. My grandma was punished if she dared to speak dialect. That’s indeed erasing a culture and it’s wrong.
On the other hand, you have people in lebannon getting BOMBED WITH FUCKING WHITE PHOSPHORUS. How are they even remotely comparable?
Cultural genocide is genocide as much as going to the dentist is torture. It’s not literally torture.
drmoose@lemmy.world 4 days ago
What does Lebanon have to do with China destroying domestic minorities? What are you even on about
antisoumerde@quokk.au 2 days ago
You’re the one equating china with the people who bomb civilians.
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What?