• Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        It's an article by an ethnic Uyghur suggesting, in response to other articles, that if you love the country of China then we should also be working to consciously use the language in public to help elevate the perceived status of the Uyghur population in China.

        It seems like it's mostly referring to public officials as well...

        I don't know exactly how I feel about that as I don't even kind of have the cultural awareness and context, but it seems like an opinion piece and has nothing to do with "not allowing them to speak their own language" any more than the cultural faux pas similar to Spanish speakers in the US.

    • NeverSavedMyShit [he/him]
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      Copy and paste it into your browser

      It's not a dead link. It's the internet archive. Holy shit.

          • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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            4 years ago

            It literally doesn't work what the fuck are you on about, "Wayback Machine has not archived that URL." motherfucker.

            • DashEightMate [any]
              hexagon
              ·
              4 years ago

              Such a weird hill to die on. "Link doesn't work" "STOP COPING BOOTLICKER"

              • NeverSavedMyShit [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Wow having mods delete what I say right in front of my eyes sure is a weird hill to die on

                • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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                  4 years ago

                  I click the link, "Wayback Machine has not archived that URL." I copy paste the link, "Wayback Machine has not archived that URL."

                  What am I coping with here, your inability to link your arguments?

                • DashEightMate [any]
                  hexagon
                  ·
                  4 years ago

                  Yeah because you're being needlessly hostile when the link doesn't work.

                    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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                      edit-2
                      4 years ago

                      I'm literally just trying to tell you that your link is dead as dillinger, its fucking prince philip over here and you start telling me I'm coping with something and I literally am just telling you that Wayback Machine has not archived this URL like what am I supposed to do about it its your link.

                        • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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                          edit-2
                          4 years ago

                          https://i.imgur.com/I3DV1y4.png

                          No, here's where we go, "Wayback Machine has not archived that URL.".

                          Edit: since I cant actually argue with whatever you are trying to convey here, 5 seconds of googling is possibly the least convincing thing you can say in a debate about the most massively astroturfed subject that exists.

                          • NeverSavedMyShit [he/him]
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                            4 years ago

                            To your edit, 5 seconds of googling is the part calling you lazy and deliberately avoiding information you disagree with. The "official party document" part you managed to simply forget or pretend it didn't exist in the same sentence.

            • NeverSavedMyShit [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Hey look, the mods didn't instantly delete what you said despite being twice as hostile with your MF

              Wonder what that's about

              • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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                4 years ago

                Yeah cause I was responding to you out of the blue telling me that I'm just coping when your link objectively didn't work and you decided to whine like a baby and throw insult instead of simply fixing the link like two other people have done now, btw your take on the link is just inventing shit, it doesnt say anything about people not speaking their own language, just promoting the learning and speaking of Mandarin as a unifying patriotic action, which also helps improve peoples opportunities and ease of travel around China.