These cancer platforms need to be shutdown…

What is a ‘national’ language? Who defines a ‘nation’?

Constitutionally defined official country language.

Can the Chinese Communist Party define that all Uyghurs, Tibetans, Mongolians whose territories are occupied are now Chinese that must be taught only in Mandarin? Can Russia rule that Ukrainians in the occupied territories can’t be taught in Ukrainian as this would “come at the cost of the national language”?

It’s a loaded question, but I go by UN recongized territory. It’s not ideal metric, but the best framework we have and Chapter IX recognizes non-self-governing territories.

The only sane EU leader. Spanish are lucky.

EU doesn’t want to fall down the ladder in cruelty leaderboard.

<…> I think it’s kind of strange to argue that China isn’t engaging in some form of ethnic cleansing.

Never said that. Not even implied it. I literally said “That is fucked. Your minority status should never be used to exclude you from exercising all your rights.”.

Especially when it comes to Tibet and the Uyghur people. The Chinese government is using policies like this to intentionally suppress the culture and language of minority populations.

It’s well established that China does repress these minorities.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/08/1125932 https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/01/un-experts-alarmed-reports-forced-labour-uyghur-tibetan-and-other-minorities

My point was that wanting your population to all be able to speak the same national language is not unreasonable where I directly quoted the article stating that the minority language could still be used as secondary. Replace China with any other country and I would still support that statement.

So FindFace like a less powerful Palantir tool which is used by other governments like US or UK?

Both terrorist states claimed they weren’t even aware that the school was hit, but considering where the school was located and when it happened there is literally no other possibilty.

Spokespeople for the US Department of Defense and the Israeli army told Time magazine and The Associated Press news agency that they were unaware that a school had been hit.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/3/questions-over-minab-girls-school-strike-as-israel-us-deny-involvement

I’m all for promoting ethnic culture including language as long as it doesn’t come at the cost of the national language. Having minority groups speaking exclusively a foreign language is not a good thing for anyone.

Like I mentioned below, Europe does strongly promote foreign languages as secondary and EU even mandate it by law and that is great. But them being secondary is an important distinction.

My bad, I missed that it was subscriber only article. I updated the source article and added a note the post body.

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.

Belgium has dutch, french and german as its official langauges, each region teachin in the region’s langauge.

Yes, and Brussels have multiple because of their unique governing system. It’s an exception not the rule.

Minority language communities have their own full school systems.

I can’t verify that. There are language schools, but I can’t find any details about full education being available in a minority langauge.

Finland’s nationa languages are finnish and swedish; swedish-natives have the legal right to FULL education in their native tongue.

Again mostly an exception not the rule. Due to their similar language they are mostly bilingual and can relatively easily understand each other. And bilingualism is written in the constitution. Doesn’t extend to other minorities.

Spain - basque, catalan, galician. Similar shit.

Spanish is the only official language in Spain, only autonomous regions are allowed to have their own official languages per the constitution.

Switzerland - german, french, italian and romansh - all national languages.

Forgot about that one and why I said “most”. One of few countries that does allow uncoditional education in multiple languages.

Even the french, who go crazy about their language shit, still have breton and basque language schools.

Only French is an official language and while they allow foreign language schools most of them are bilingual as they still need to learn French to pass exams. No full education in foreign language.

Romania, hungarians being the largest minority, there’s lots of hungarian-focused schools. German as well. Ukrainian, serbian, slovak, turkish.

Another exception and probably the most tolerant country as by law each minority that effectively can generate full classrooms are entitled to mother-tongue education.

Uk - welsh, gaelic, and irish.

Again limited to self-governing regions, England only allows British English.

Sweden - sami, finnish, romani and yiddish.

Sami is only allowed in the Sami administrative area and Finnish have the same status as Swedish in Finland due to language similarities. As far as I know no other language offers full education, but it is technically allowed under the law for recognized minority languages. You still need Swedish to pass exams.

Italy - german, french and slovenian.

Their constitution allows autonomous regions to have co-official language but only German is available for full education as far as I know.

I’ll admit I overstated the situation in Europe as due to past imperialism there are some legacy protections and exceptions, but generally they are targeted and doesn’t apply to all minorities. Out of your examples only 3 have laws that offer universal right in mother-tongue language education.

And China is no different in that respect, as Hong Kong special administrative region allows full education in English.

To correct myself, about half the Europe only allows single national language for full education, while other half have either very limited execptions or full minority language protections in their constitutions. There is a strong push to encourage foreign languages as secondary and in the EU it’s even managed by law that at least one foreign language must be taught as secondary at some point in the education cycle.

Thank you for the comment as it made me do more research and learn some new things.

If everyone has them, it’s not worth stealing.

So country from which imperialist aggression the world wants to protect from the most is the only country that even used it? Sounds like we are good if everyone else gets them.

Iraq and Libya too. North Korea or Pakistan on the other hand are chilling.

Under the new Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, while minority languages may still be taught as a second language, groups such as Tibetans, Uyghurs and Mongolians will no longer be entitled to use their native tongues for core subjects in schools and universities, the report noted.

That’s how it should be. That’s already how it works in most (might be all) of Europe.

The law “will expand the legal basis for restricting religious, cultural and political activities among minority groups”, Neil Thomas, fellow on Chinese politics at the Asia Society’s Center for China Analysis. Has said.

That is fucked. Your minority status should never be used to exclude you from exercising all your rights.

Can you name a country that ever used a nuke?

As every single country should. It’s clear at this point that if you don’t have nukes, your security is nonexistent.

Can we make it permanent, please?