For years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has pushed ethnic minority groups like Tibetans and Uyghurs to adopt an identity rooted in Chinese nationality and allegiance to the ruling Communist Party.
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.
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
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.
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