"We didn't originally apply the same rationale to expressions of white nationalism and separatism because we were thinking about broader concepts of nationalism and separatism – things like American pride and Basque separatism, which are an important part of people's identity," the blog said.
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"We didn't originally apply the same rationale to expressions of white nationalism and separatism because we were thinking about broader concepts of nationalism and separatism – things like American pride and Basque separatism, which are an important part of people's identity," Facebook said.
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IRAQ'S ruling elite has survived Kurdish separatism and Sunni jihadism.
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It also indicates a general softening in support for separatism.
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This time, Western separatism comes with the handy hashtag, #Wexit.
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That infuriated Beijing, which bristles at any talk of separatism.
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Tashi said he had had no intention of inciting separatism.
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Images of manhandled Catalans will stoke the flames of separatism.
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The valor of separatism, after all, is our founding myth.
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The party is soft-pedalling its traditional demand for northern separatism.
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Ankara fears Kurdish ambitions in Syria are fueling separatism at home.
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Ankara fears Kurdish ambitions in Syria are fuelling separatism at home.
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For liberals, it is hard to know how to view separatism.
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Ankara fears such a move would stoke Kurdish separatism at home.
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"This is a bigger danger than Tamil separatism," Vithanage told Reuters.
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He was charged with "inciting separatism" and sentenced to five years.
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Many Spaniards reject Catalan separatism and judge their political parties accordingly.
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He was charged with separatism and sentenced to life in prison.
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Yet in sport, patriotism is not always the same thing as separatism.
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Last week, Facebook banned white nationalism and white separatism from its platform.
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But no government is keen to encourage separatism, in Spain or elsewhere.
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But the astonishment is also because separatism is unfamiliar in Latin America.
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Latin America's linguistic and ethnic divisions do not lend themselves to separatism.
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Now it looms as a new front in China's struggle against separatism.
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The party, a newcomer, has banged the drum against Catalan separatism relentlessly.
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Mr. Tashi has no known record of advocating Tibetan independence or separatism.
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The culture that we're in right now—there's an epidemic of separatism.
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"Separatism doesn't solve any problems," said German Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Roth.
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In 2014, Mr. Tohti was arrested and later convicted of promoting separatism.
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He said he was not guilty of the charge of inciting separatism.
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And Uighur separatism has been a thorn in China's side for decades.
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" Article 370, he said, had caused "separatism, terrorism, dynastic politics and corruption.
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Beijing blames the unrest in Xinjiang on Islamic extremism and ethnic separatism.
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"I won't let any country, whatever it is, feed separatism," Macron said.
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Facebook will now ban content that praises or supports white nationalism and separatism.
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During local boy Stephen Harper's decade as prime minister, Albertan separatism was muted.
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Abu Sayyaf has its roots in separatism and but engages mostly in banditry.
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"I've actually opted for a life of feminist separatism!" is my current favourite.
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While QTPOC separatism isn't an entirely new concept, it's one growing in popularity.
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Wales dabbles in nationalism, and it could follow the Scottish push for separatism.
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They say they created it to attack the contradictions prompted by Catalan separatism.
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He was sentenced to life in prison in 2014 on charges of separatism.
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But China's policy isn't really meant to curb Islamic radicalism or ethnic separatism.
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Above all, Mr. Kadyrov has pursued the fight against separatism and Islamist insurgency.
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This did not heal ethnic splits or prevent a resurgence of Serb separatism.
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Instead state media accused them of treason and separatism; the army is on standby.
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Rajoy has taken a harsh stance against Catalan separatism since taking power in 2011.
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Their task was to counter the "evil forces" of separatism, terrorism and religious extremism.
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Tohti was found guilty of "separatism" in 2014 and sentenced to life in prison.
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SEPARATISM in Europe these days comes draped in a blue flag with yellow stars.
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On social media, Muhammad had called white people "devils" and posted about black separatism.
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Formerly imperialist powers have withered into nationalism (as in Brexit) and separatism (Scotland, Catalonia).
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No space for anything looking remotely like it would lead to separatism, he said.
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The EU feels deeply threatened by Catalan independence, as it does by all separatism.
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He has positioned himself as a leader of select political causes, including Catalan separatism.
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Separatism has deep historical and cultural roots in Catalonia, which has a distinct language.
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Facebook is reversing course and banning white nationalism and white separatism from its platform.
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Mr. Tashi said he was not guilty of the separatism charge, Mr. Lin said.
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He was alluding to enduring separatism in post-war federal Bosnia's autonomous Serb region.
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The changes included drawing the distinction between white supremacy, white nationalism, and white separatism.
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"We want to leave behind the stagnation and separatism," he said at a news conference.
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But under the strain of slump and separatism, the old two-party system has splintered.
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Another is that Catalan nationalism has mutated, largely because of the crisis, into intolerant separatism.
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There are occasional mutterings of separatism in Zulia, in western Venezuela, and in Argentine Patagonia.
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Facebook and Instagram recently committed to banning content that explicitly endorses white nationalism or separatism.
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Facebook earlier this week banned praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism.
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Of course, I'm not advocating feminist separatism here or permanently entering into another echo chamber.
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Facebook earlier this week banned praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism.
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The results confirm that separatism has emerged as a powerful new force in Hong Kong.
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Powerful neighbours Ankara and Tehran fear it could fuel Kurdish separatism within their own borders.
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Powerful neighbors Ankara and Tehran fear it could fuel Kurdish separatism within their own borders.
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The trend has alarmed neighbouring Turkey, fearful of separatism among its own large Kurdish population.
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Previously, the social giant had banned "white supremacy" but not white nationalism or white separatism.
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Even when the dust from the trial settles, the problem of Catalan separatism will remain.
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But Tsai should know that the Hong Kong protesters are fighting for democracy, not separatism.
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The central government in Beijing may succeed in quashing Uighur separatism in the short term.
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No way out Beijing's paranoia about terrorism and separatism in Xinjiang is real and understandable.
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"Separatism, or rather the anti-mainland doctrine in disguise, will... doom Hong Kong," she continued.
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Tehran fears the spread of separatism to its own Kurdish population, which is around 8 million.
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Officials have long claimed that Uyghur separatism and opposition is inspired and supported by external sources.
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The party's rise and its decline owe much to the political earthquake caused by Catalan separatism.
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The Chinese government argues that harsh measures are needed to prevent violence associated with Uighur separatism.
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The threat of separatism has receded, but the barriers to new parties have grown yet higher.
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Abu Sayyaf is primarily rooted in separatism and seeks an independent Islamic state in the country.
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It also stiffened the fervent opposition to Catalan separatism among national political parties - and many Spaniards.
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He was given a life sentence after being convicted of separatism in a two-day trial.
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Besides, what guarantee is there that the fires of separatism wouldn't spread in a gentle wind?
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In interviews at Facebook headquarters, Motherboard previously asked Facebook why it allows white nationalism and separatism.
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But separatism has century-old roots in Catalonia, a region with its own culture and language.
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Months later, he was released, though he still faces charges of separatism and organizing terrorist activity.
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Facebook banned white nationalism and separatism in March, calling them ideologically the same as white supremacy.
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Instead, he spoke out in favor of self-defense and racial separatism between blacks and whites.
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Yet separatism has also been fuelled by the deadly response of the Nigerian army to even the slightest hint of resurgent nationalism among the Igbo, one of the country's three main ethnic groups, who live predominantly in the south-east and formed the core of Biafran separatism.
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Iran and Syria also oppose the vote, fearing it could fan separatism among their own Kurdish populations.
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"White nationalist groups espouse white separatism and white supremacy," the Wikipedia page that Facebook drew from states.
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Neighboring Iran, Turkey and Syria all oppose secession, fearing separatism will spread to their own Kurdish populations.
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In short, resorting to frozen conflicts rather than annexation mitigates Moscow's near-term costs of fomenting separatism.
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Western Canadian separatism has been bubbling under the surface for decades and hasn't been acted on before.
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Decentralisation has been a part of Britain's (so far successful) strategy for managing Scottish separatism, for example.
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Neighboring Iran and Turkey back Baghdad's stance, fearing the spread of separatism to their own Kurdish populations.
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This week, Facebook announced that it would finally ban white nationalism and white separatism on the site.
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There is simply no compelling evidence that Australian multiculturalism is in danger of veering towards ethnic separatism.
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Russian-leaning politicians lost millions of voters to Russia's annexation of Crimea and support for eastern separatism.
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Many Chinese support the government's policies in Xinjiang because of concerns about Uighur separatism, including violent attacks.
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A somewhat more accurate explanation for Beijing's behavior is that it fears ethnic separatism and Islamic radicalism.
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Those who publicly expressed solidarity with Mr. Hussein's victims were persecuted in Turkey for promoting Kurdish separatism.
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Even when the dust from the trial settles, the problem of Catalan separatism will still be there.
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He also denied that his work with Syrian and Kurdish refugees meant that he supported Kurdish separatism.
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Facebook originally allowed content in support of white nationalism and white separatism on the social networking site.
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Separatism will become an increasingly severe problem for the world's two most populous countries, China and India.
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While separatism has sharply split Catalan society, it has also helped reshape the national politics of Spain.
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After a Motherboard investigation, Facebook changed its policy and now bans white nationalism, white separatism and white supremacy.
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Facebook, which already blocks white supremacy posts, announced a ban Wednesday on content supporting white nationalism or separatism.
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To prevent separatism from growing in Hong Kong, Mr Xi has only one option that might actually work.
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In the past, Moscow faced little-to-no direct policy response from the U.S. government for stoking separatism.
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Hong Kong politics is now a three-way affair, with separatism the new force to be reckoned with.
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In late March, the police finally told family members of Mr. Tashi's arrest and of the separatism charge.
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Those who believe in closed believe in protective trade, closed borders, a withdrawn foreign policy and ethnic separatism.
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In March 2016, police officials said in a document that they were investigating Mr. Tashi for inciting separatism.
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Mr. Abascal, 42, had made his name as a fierce opponent of separatism in his home Basque region.
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Last week, that documentary was shown in court as the main evidence that Mr. Tashi was inciting separatism.
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Mr. Xi delivered a harsh warning against separatism on Sunday, though he did not specifically mention Hong Kong.
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He was accused of inciting separatism — a crime against the state that could bring 15 years in prison.
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In 1971, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau faced a crisis amid the rise of French Canadian separatism in Quebec.
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She ran in the European elections in May to draw attention to the jailed leaders and Catalan separatism.
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It's Beijing that's promoting separatism by refusing to grant democratic rights to anyone, not the Hong Kong protesters.
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He returned to America a changed man, renouncing racial separatism, and renameing himself El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.
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A court tried him on Thursday for "inciting separatism" despite criticism from Western diplomats and human rights groups.
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The new policy is a significant change from the company's old policies on white separatism and white nationalism.
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Facebook has prohibited white supremacist content for a while now, but hasn't included white nationalism or separatism until today.
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Several members of such groups have been prosecuted under a harsh anti-separatism law that was passed in 2014.
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The indignation was at its most virulent in Catalonia, one of Spain's richest regions, where nationalist parties embraced separatism.
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Sanchez urged the prime minister, who takes a hard line against Catalan separatism, to start a dialogue with Puigdemont.
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Barring a clear defeat for separatism on December 21st, there are only two ways out of the Catalan quagmire.
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A new, even taller one was immediately constructed in its place, though the pressure for Flemish separatism slowly subsided.
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The main candidates in the election clashed over how to handle Catalan separatism in a TV debate on Monday.
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Further separatism could fragment the common market, bringing the demise of the six-decade-old project of European integration.
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Ankara, which fears the spread of separatism among Turkey's Kurdish population, has said it will not recognise the referendum.
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YouTube's biggest competitor, Facebook, said last week that it would ban white nationalism and white separatism on its platforms.
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He stood trial in January this year, charged with "inciting separatism" for comments he had made to The Times.
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Names that discriminate against gender, race or ethnicity are now prohibited, as are references to terrorism, separatism and extremism.
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Catalan separatism has always prided itself on being a peaceful movement and its leaders say that has not changed.
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It is how we unlearn fear and separatism and find not only peace with change, but joy as well.
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It moves from birth in Africa (though a giant simulated vagina) through arbitrary tribal warfare to lust overcoming separatism.
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Iraq's powerful neighbors Iran and Turkey are backing Baghdad, fearing the spread of separatism to their own Kurdish populations.
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The ban will focus on explicit language and will not target more implicit statements supporting white nationalism and separatism.
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Fearing it will inflame separatism among its own Kurds, Ankara had already threatened military and economic measures in retaliation.
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Earlier this week, Facebook and Instagram announced that they were banning white nationalism and white separatism from its platforms.
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They warn the referendum will spark regional chaos, and fear the spread of separatism among their own Kurdish populations.
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It has weathered the existential crisis of Quebec separatism, now in deep freeze according to Chantal Hébert, a Quebec pundit.
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Iraq's neighbors Turkey, Iran and Syria, all oppose secession, fearing that separatism will spread to their own ethnic Kurdish populations.
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In a dramatic shift in policy, Facebook announced today that it is banning white nationalism and separatism on its platform.
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In 2009, months after being re-elected with two-thirds of the vote, I was arrested on charges of separatism.
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Iraq's powerful neighbors, Iran and Turkey, strongly oppose the vote as they fear could fuel separatism among their own Kurds.
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This requires constitutional reform—something the PP is cool about—but for its own sake, not just to defeat separatism.
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The tech giant extended its ban on hate speech to speech that promoted or supported white nationalism and white separatism.
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Iraq's neighbors — Turkey, Iran and Syria — oppose the referendum, fearing it could fan separatism among their own ethnic Kurdish populations.
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It has split south from north, haves and have-nots, and has encouraged Celtic separatism in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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"It was all bubbling up then, with the Scottish referendum and various acts of separatism around the world," Pegg explains.
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Establishment politicians wavered between distancing themselves from him or competing with Mr. Abascal's hard-line views, particularly toward Catalan separatism.
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Recent events, particularly tensions over separatism in Catalonia, have boosted right-wing parties and could reshape the distribution of seats.
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For years, Chinese officials have said they are fighting the forces of terrorism, separatism and religious extremism in the region.
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Facebook has banned white nationalism and white separatism on the platform, after receiving criticism from civil rights groups and academics.
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Voters in Scotland rejected independence in a bitterly contested 2014 referendum, but separatism remains a potent force in Scottish politics.
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Beijing blames this unrest on Islamic extremism and ethnic separatism, and has responded with a widespread crackdown on Uighur people.
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A lawyer by training, Mr. Torra, 55, is also a book publisher with a long history of backing Catalan separatism.
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In late March, Facebook instituted a policy barring "praise, support, and representation of white nationalism and white separatism," for example.
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"Different systems are not an obstacle to unification, and even less are they an excuse for separatism," Mr. Xi said.
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From here, Facebook came to the conclusion that white nationalism and white separatism are "inherently hateful," the company previously told Motherboard.
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So episodes of Shia rebelliousness carry not just the fear of separatism, or of Iranian interference, but of economic disaster, too.
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In response, China has become more paranoid, directing Hong Kong's pliant officials to nip any sign of separatism in the bud.
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Officials in Beijing saw this as nascent separatism, and hoped that an anti-sedition law would help to curb the tendency.
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Quebec separatism faded as a political force in the 2000s at the same time that immigration from non-European countries increased.
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China has rejected all accusations of mistreatment in Xinjiang, but also says it has to crack down on separatism and militancy.
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Nonetheless, to have the army accept the idea of federalism and the ethnic armies renounce separatism is progress, by Burmese standards.
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Iran, which like Turkey fears fuelling separatism in its own Kurdish population, warned of unspecified consequences if the vote went ahead.
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Vox, he said, may now push forward with what he called a "patriotic alternative," acting as a counterweight to Catalan separatism.
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Meanwhile the benefits of separatism, in terms of being able to cater better to the preferences of voters, are less diminished.
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He does not disavow that statement and suggests that around 30% of the Afrikaner population still favor separatism over multiracial integration.
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China insists Xinjiang is its internal affair, and is not a religious or ethnic issue, but about preventing terror and separatism.
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She represented Ilham Tohti, an advocate for China's Uighur ethnic minority who is serving a life sentence on charges of separatism.
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He was formally arrested in March on the charge of inciting separatism, which can result in a 15-year prison sentence.
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The surprise takeover of Crimea was bloodless, but in the Donbas the mercenaries were unable to build popular support for separatism.
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"I am confident that the people of Jammu and Kashmir will defeat separatism and move forward with new hopes," Modi said.
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He is also a reminder that living a life of enriching separatism is more attainable for those with certain preëxisting advantages.
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Nor does the ruling answer the question of how to handle the separatism drive supported by nearly half of Catalonia's population.
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Nor does the ruling answer the question of how to handle the separatism drive supported by nearly half of Catalonia's population.
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That's because — want it or not, know it or not — the Umbrella Movement planted the seed of separatism in the city.
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Tohti, an economist, was jailed for life in China in 2014 on separatism charges that were widely denounced in Western capitals.
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The dinner invitation, which was later withdrawn, sparked outrage in parts of India, where Sikh separatism remains a highly charged topic.
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Chow's party Demosisto, co-founded by Joshua Wong, supports self-determination for the city's political future, but does not advocate separatism.
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In both cases, hardline policies from the central government risk backfiring—and causing the very separatism they are intended to repress.
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And its popularity has grown with a backlash against Catalan separatism, which is rekindling Spanish nationalism long after the Franco era.
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In response, Ukraine's internal security agency, known as the S.B.U., recently opened a criminal case against the foundation for promoting separatism.
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The new policy will not ban implicit white nationalism and white separatism, which Casseus said is difficult to detect and enforce.
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To consolidate Spain's slowly fading economic recovery, tackle the social scars of its previous slump and contain Catalan separatism will be hard.
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It tightened those policies further last month with a decision to ban praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism.
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For instance, coded or implied white nationalism and white separatism content may be more difficult to ferret out, especially given Facebook's scale.
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There are decisions to be taken, on everything from the budget to Catalan separatism—and it needs a government to take them.
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Xi endorsed a "struggle against terrorism, infiltration and separatism" using the "organs of dictatorship," and showing "absolutely no mercy," the newspaper reported.
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Though LaBruce fancies himself a feminist, his vision of radical separatism often feels equal parts Born in Flames and Girls Gone Wild.
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For many years, Chinese officials have talked about the need to suppress what they call terrorism, separatism and religious extremism in Xinjiang.
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Authorities hunted for those with "abnormal" thoughts, which meant anyone in the thrall of the "three evil forces": separatism, terrorism and extremism.
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But Mr. Leung himself is seen as having set a spark to the firewood of separatism, after having laid that out, unwittingly.
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On Wednesday, Facebook announced it was banning all "praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism" on Faceboo (FB)and Instagram.
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But the panel decried China's "broad definition of terrorism and vague references to extremism and unclear definition of separatism in Chinese legislation".
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You also note an interesting pattern in American history: In the aftermath of wars, there's an uptick in white nationalism or white separatism.
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However, the third problem, Catalan separatism, remains unresolved, and little of substance has been achieved since the PP lost its majority in 2015.
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Above all, the politicians must deal with Catalan separatism and, more broadly, some accumulated flaws in the sweeping decentralisation mandated by the constitution.
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Separatism was fuelled partly by the Constitutional Tribunal's rejection of parts of a new statute that would have granted the region more autonomy.
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China claims the island as its sacred territory and has vowed not to allow any attempts at what it views as Taiwan separatism.
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"We're addressing this by identifying hate slogans and symbols connected to white nationalism and white separatism to better enforce our policy," she wrote.
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Those involved in the raid believe the TET Facebook account is spreading lies, maligning China's reputation overseas and promoting separatism and even terrorism.
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"Separatism appeared to offer an easy answer to those who felt that they had lost control over their own lives," writes Sir John.
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Instead of granting economic freedom and rewarding regional initiative, Moscow, fearful of separatism, keeps the regions dependent on hand-outs from the centre.
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"Overlaps with white nationalism/separatism, even orgs and individuals define themselves inconsistently," one slide says, in a section marked "challenges" for white supremacy.
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Kurdish separatism is a sensitive issue for Turkey, which has been battling a militant insurgency in its largely Kurdish southeast for three decades.
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There has been a strong sense of separatism and regional identity in Catalonia, a wealthy region in the northeast of Spain, for decades.
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The country needs change, if it is to consolidate economic recovery, deter Catalan separatism and shore up public confidence in the political system.
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At the same time, human rights groups say, he argued against separatism and expressed concern about growing militancy among Uighurs in the region.
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Catalan separatism is a sensitive issue in Spain, especially four days before a general election in which it could play an important role.
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Inciting separatism is a serious political charge that is used to silence people from ethnic minority groups who are deemed troublemakers by officials.
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Abadi is seeking a second term in which he plans to fight corruption and maintain national unity in the face of Kurdish separatism.
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Five individual activists told Reuters the detainees are being held on security charges including separatism, Islamist militancy or being agents of Saudi Arabia.
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The sense of separatism cultivated over the centuries remains strong today, especially in places like Nemuro, the coastal town where Tamaki grew up.
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From the early 1920s forward, Turkish officials used resettlement to eliminate Kurdish resistance in southeastern Turkey and pre-empt any threat of separatism.
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Beijing's fear of separatism and President Xi Jinping's uncompromising leadership style mean the situation is likely to get worse before it gets better.
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Abu Sayyaf, which has its roots in separatism, is notorious for banditry and piracy, including beheading some captives if no ransom is paid.
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When President Trump met Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy at the White House last week, the topic of Catalan separatism naturally came up.
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He called for a "struggle against terrorism, infiltration and separatism" using the "organs of dictatorship," and showing "absolutely no mercy," the Times writes.
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Officials said they were trying to prevent violent, anti-state episodes in Uighur areas, which they attributed to separatism, terrorism and religious extremism.
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Indeed, chances are that a new right-wing government in Madrid would be even more intolerant of Catalan separatism than Mr. Rajoy was.
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In a major policy shift for the world's biggest social media network, Facebook banned white nationalism and white separatism on its platform Tuesday.
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But the editorial in Ta Kung Pao said that no one should "underestimate the resolve and confidence of the central [authorities] in eliminating separatism".
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Apart from a leaked government film that accused him of ethnic "separatism," the Chinese state has provided no explanation for the geography professor's detention.
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The guidelines also specifically prohibit online religious services from inciting subversion, opposing the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and promoting extremism and separatism.
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But in recent years, economic crisis and political hostility between Barcelona and Madrid have left many Catalans feeling wounded, fanning the flames of separatism.
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Fearing insurrection and separatism, China's rulers have reinforced techniques of totalitarian control—including the mass detention of Uighurs for re-education—with digital technology.
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Chinese officials have largely avoided comment, but some have said in state media that ideological changes are needed to fight separatism and Islamic extremism.
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Photo: GettyFacebook and Instagram will finally ban white nationalism and white separatism on their networks in a move that will be implemented next week.
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Facebook has officially banned white supremacist content since at least last year, but the company deemed white nationalism and white separatism as perfectly acceptable.
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While governor of the industrial Dnipropetrovsk region, he took firm action against pro-Russian separatism, arming and financing local militia groups and volunteer battalions.
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In an earlier piece, reporters at Motherboard asked Facebook why it bans mentions of white supremacy, but not white nationalism and separatism in groups.
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But away from the protests, some Barcelona residents were sceptical that things could change for the region, where separatism is a highly divisive issue.
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MADRID — The leader of Spain's far-right Vox party, Santiago Abascal, made his name as an opponent of separatism in his home Basque region.
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This has potentially provided a boost to right-wing parties who take a harder line against separatism, and weighed on the popularity of Sanchez.
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Facebook officials formally decided to ban "white nationalism" and "white separatism" on the platform at a content moderation meeting on Tuesday, according to Motherboard.
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China insists Xinjiang is its internal affair, and the issue there is not a religious or ethnic one, but about preventing terror and separatism.
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China insists Xinjiang is its internal affair, and the issue there is not a religious or ethnic one, but about preventing terror and separatism.
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Unlike Catalonia, it also has a history of some violent separatism with various terrorist attacks carried out by the nationalist and separatist group Eta.
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Xinjiang is an internal affair, and the issue there is not a religious or ethnic one, but about preventing terror and separatism, he said.
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He was, for a time, a close friend of black leader Malcolm X, while his views on racial separatism stoked more flames of controversy.
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Moscow suspended the Crimean Tatars' semi-official Mejlis legislature after taking control and later jailed some of the community's leaders on separatism-related charges.
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He is running as an independent candidate, but with the support of Ciudadanos, a party that was formed as a bulwark against Catalan separatism.
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But both have been alarmed by the Iraqi Kurds' vote for independence last month, fearing it will stoke separatism among their own Kurdish populations.
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The company had previously banned white supremacist content from its platforms but maintained a murky distinction between white supremacy, white nationalism and white separatism.
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In addition to history, many of the participants cited pocketbook issues in wanting independence, after a financial crisis that helped fuel separatism in Catalonia.
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The nationalist front had a strong hold in Canning Town, and it was a party that was very vocal about a sort of separatism.
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Then again, Trump had no stake in encouraging Kurdish separatism, getting in the middle of a Turkish-Kurdish conflict or alienating Turkish President Erdogan.
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While Xinjiang has a long history of oppression -- driven by Beijing's paranoia of Uyghur nationalism and separatism -- the most recent crackdown is largely unprecedented.
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Speaking to CNN Wednesday, India's former ambassador to Canada Vishnu Prakash said that Sikh separatism was a matter of greater concern inside of India.
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In the past year, the Russian government has also passed amendments to significantly increase the penalties for online incitements to separatism, extremism, or hatred.
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Xinjiang has been battling separatism, terrorism and religious extremism, the latter of which is a distortion of and disrespect for religion and undermines public security.
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Advocating for white supremacy is banned, but most scholars on the topic believe that white nationalism and separatism are fundamentally the same as white supremacy.
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The debate over separatism versus supremacy follows recent revelations out of Britain and Australia that didn't get much attention in the rest of the world.
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Uighur rights advocate Tohti was jailed for life in China in 2014 on separatism charges that were widely denounced at the time in Western capitals.
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In their view, the state's political privileges have fanned the flames of separatism by encouraging Kashmiris to view themselves as irredeemably different from other Indians.
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China's Communist administration is highly sensitive to any talk of separatism in regions it considers its territories, including as Xinjiang, Tibet and independently governed Taiwan.
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Others seem a bit more of a stretch—like the line Zeisler draws from 1970s radical feminist separatism to the high-powered women's conference movement.
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She noted that Facebook just announced that it will ban white nationalism and white separatism, and use its AI technology to help enforce the ban.
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The social network said it hadn't banned expressions of white nationalism because it was considering the broader scope of the concept, like separatism and pride.
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While Alberta's separatist movement is not expected to gain anywhere near the support that Quebec separatism did in the 1990s, it could fan populist sentiment.
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The German women's movement at that time "embraced difference and separatism as a way of claiming autonomous and self-determining identity," Swinton said by email.
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Today, separatism is largely in retreat as poutine has become a global emblem of Canadian identity and French Canadian rappers rap in English and French.
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But really anyone with an imagination should be able understand the past attraction of Communism or racial separatism or back-to-Africanism to black Americans.
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But it also received some severe criticism for its attention to famous prisoners who fit Catalonia's history of separatism and social upheaval, rather than others.
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The official invitation, which was later withdrawn, has sparked outrage in India, where the issue of Sikh separatism remains a highly charged and emotive topic.
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Two weeks after the massacre, Facebook announced that it would ban all "praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism" on Facebook and Instagram.
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It has easily prevailed on the recent plebiscites of 2012 and 2016, the later boycotted by the forces of territorial immobility and anti-American separatism.
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In 215, at the beginning of the Kosovo war, his hometown of Drenica, in the centre of the country, was a hotbed of Albanian separatism.
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Territorial integrity is an existential issue for all countries, but it is especially sensitive for Beijing, which fears emboldening separatism in Tibet and other regions.
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Che Dalha, Tibet's governor, said the government would "hold a clear-cut stand against separatism, resolutely strike against the Dalai clique's damaging and separatist activities".
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New York (CNN Business)Facebook announced Wednesday that it would ban all "praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism" on Facebook and Instagram.
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"A lot of people brandish this threat because they think it will maximize leverage," he said, comparing it to Quebec's history of pushing for separatism.
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Implicit and coded white nationalism and white separatism will not be banned immediately, in part because the company said it's harder to detect and remove.
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As many Chinese officials see it, calling for free elections, in which the central government would have no ability to veto candidates, is tantamount to separatism.
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Ankara is determined to prevent Kurdish forces from joining up cantons they control along the Turkish border, for fear it will stoke Kurdish separatism at home.
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As Motherboard reports, leaked documents from inside Facebook show that the company allows content on its platform that's considered to be white nationalism and white separatism.
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"Facebook is distinguishing white supremacy, white nationalism, and white separatism by a mere technicality," civil rights advocacy group Color of Change told Gizmodo in a statement.
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Years of uncontrolled immigration – and a creeping acceptance of separatism, boosted by identity politics – risk importing the disastrous doctrine of "multiculturalism" that is prevalent in Europe.
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Facebook changed its policy after an overwhelming number of experts it spoke to said that white nationalism and white separatism are tied closely to organized hate.
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Indeed, many of Beijing's grievances with other countries arise from the perception that they are doing just that, stirring up dissent and encouraging protests or separatism.
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And Catalan independence might stir up separatism elsewhere in Europe—in Scotland again, no doubt, but also in northern Italy, in Corsica, perhaps even in Bavaria.
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On another note, most of us who consider ourselves Christian find it laughable Duke refers to his doctrine of hate and separatism as Christian family values.
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Facebook is now reconsidering its stance on "white nationalism" and "white separatism" after a widespread civil rights backlash and national media attention stemming from Motherboard's reporting.
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Opponents of the referendum have been targeted by laws against terrorism, extremism and separatism, and some have been forcibly interned in psychiatric institutions, the report said.
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De Klerk courted controversy in a 2012 interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour in which he suggested separatism could be legitimate in principle, if immoral in practice.
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In Xinjiang officials say the main purpose of the saohei effort is to fight gangs related to the "three evil forces" of terrorism, extremism and separatism.
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Paradoxically, globalisation has inflamed separatism around the world by raising the question Catalans now confront: to whom, exactly, do we owe a sense of social responsibility?
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Facebook is abandoning a longstanding policy of allowing white supremacy to flourish on its platform under the guise of terms like white nationalism and white separatism.
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Under the influence of this mentality, liberalism goes from a creed that values individual rights and deliberation to one that values group separatism and intellectual intolerance.
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Mr. Tohti, who was an outspoken critic of the discrimination Uighurs face in China, was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of separatism.
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Many in China view the Dalai Lama as a dangerous voice for separatism in a region, Tibet, that they consider an integral part of their country.
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Sikh separatism, while a fringe movement in Canada, has been a polarizing issue among members of Canada's Sikh community and has complicated Canada's relations with India.
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The official invitation, which was later rescinded, stirred outrage in parts of India, where the issue of Sikh separatism remains a highly charged and emotive topic.
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The dinner invitation, which was later withdrawn, sparked outrage in parts of India, where the issue of Sikh separatism remains a highly charged and emotive topic.
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Driving the news: The "tide of 'Sinicization'" is reaching the "Hui, a Chinese-speaking people with no recent record of separatism or extremism," the Post notes.
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ALONG with terrorism and extremism, separatism rounds off "the three evil forces" that Xi Jinping, China's president, frequently invokes in speeches and has vowed to stamp out.
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All of the station's employees are resolute in their belief that Taiwan is a part of China and oppose any form of separatism for Taiwan, it added.
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He will now face two big tasks: to fulfil his promise of a fairer society when economic recovery is slowing, and to try to defuse Catalan separatism.
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In English's view, The Deluxe Show and the Contemporary Black Artists in America framed artists' work in open-ended ways, beyond societal structures of segregation and separatism.
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Its leader Santiago Abascal, 43, is a tough-talking career politician from the Basque Country, who harshly criticized the exhumation of Franco and wants Catalan separatism quashed.
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The Mediterranean and the Russian marches are zones of conflict again, and ancient habits — French military adventurism, Little Englander separatism, a tense relationship with Islam — are resurfacing.
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And in September, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Mykola Semena was found guilty of "separatism" for expressing the view that Crimea should be returned to Ukraine.
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"What in fact amounts to the collapse of the state is above all an invitation to Kurdish separatism," Mr. Karaveli of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute said.
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Those include banning praise, support, and representation of white supremacy, but allowing the same sort of positions for white nationalism and separatism, according to the leaked documents.
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Going forward, while people will still be able to demonstrate pride in their ethnic heritage, we will not tolerate praise or support for white nationalism and separatism.
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But in the 1990s, Chinese academics advising the government began arguing that these policies had contributed to the breakup of the Soviet Union by encouraging ethnic separatism.
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It was just earlier this year that Facebook banned white nationalism and white separatism after its policy specifically tried to differentiate the two ideologies from white supremacy.
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Tibetan and Uyghur activists have been arrested, and those who attempt to protect traditional culture and language have faced accusations of advancing separatism and difficulty chasing funds.
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Modi has said the special privileges Kashmir enjoyed for decades, such as property rights and government jobs only for locals, had hindered its development and fueled separatism.
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The police eventually gave the family a written statement saying Mr. Tashi was being charged with inciting separatism, which can result in a 15-year prison sentence.
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"The core of the Xinjiang issue [in China] is not human rights, ethnic minority or religion; instead, the core is anti-terrorism and anti-separatism," Chunying said.
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Two weeks after the New Zealand massacre, Facebook announced that it would ban all "praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism" on Facebook and Instagram.
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It was here that I hoped to trace the source of a term that is currently flooding the online forums devoted to male separatism and men's rights activism.
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More surprisingly, it has also revived the issue of Quebec separatism, a force that threatened Canada's integrity from the 1970s to the 1990s but has lately seemed dormant.
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Trade and the question of how many outsiders should be let into the province had eclipsed arguments over separatism that have dominated politics in Quebec in recent decades.
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Why did so many banners bear the "Sun of the Alps" design associated with the separatism of Padania, or the northern Italian regions, for the rest of Italy?
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The platform has taken action against some of the worst offenders with periodic waves of bans, including a recent policy change to prohibit white "nationalism" and white separatism.
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Rajoy, who called the election after sacking the previous secessionist government, had hoped to mobilise hitherto quiescent supporters of union with Spain and deal separatism a decisive blow.
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Iraq's Kurds overwhelmingly backed independence in Monday's referendum, defying neighboring countries which fear the vote could fuel Kurdish separatism within their own borders and lead to fresh conflict.
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The Chinese manoeuvers come at a time of heightened tension between Beijing and Taipei and follow strong warnings by Chinese President Xi Jinping last month against Taiwan separatism.
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Recent polling has shown waning support for the Socialists since the protests began, while parties on the right that have adopted a stronger stance against separatism are gaining.
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Its leader Santiago Abascal, 43, is a tough-talking career politician from the Basque country, who harshly criticized the exhumation of Franco and who wants Catalan separatism quashed.
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"We have devolved into some separatism and we've taken our corners," Malik Aziz, the deputy chief of police in Dallas, said in an interview with CNN on Friday.
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"Most opinion polls show only a small minority of people in Hong Kong support separatism," Mr. Lam said, noting that the new requirement could actually hurt the government.
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Iraq's neighbours, Iran and Turkey, have also expressed their opposition to the plan as they fear an independent Kurdish state could fuel separatism among their own Kurdish populations.
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Brooks also highlighted the case of Ilham Tohti, declared a case of arbitrary detention by a U.N. panel in 2014, who is serving a life sentence for "separatism".
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Rhetoric around equalization and separatism tends to spike when Alberta goes through an economic downturn, political scientists said, but mainstream conservatives in Alberta have traditionally been pro-federation.
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BEIJING — A detained Tibetan entrepreneur who advocates bilingual education in schools across Tibetan regions of China has been charged with inciting separatism, according to an official police document.
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Leaked internal documents show that Facebook's content moderators are explicitly instructed to allow "white separatism" and "white nationalism" on the platform, but note that "white supremacy" is banned.
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Our own review of hate figures and organizations – as defined by our Dangerous Individuals & Organizations policy – further revealed the overlap between white nationalism and separatism and white supremacy.
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Under Big Mother's tutelage, the trainees of her Female Liberation Army are encouraged to practice lesbian separatism as the revolutionary model for a future society without male domination.
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Measures in Xinjiang aim to "promote stability, development, unity and livelihoods", while also cracking down on "ethnic separatism and violent terrorist criminal activities", he told a regular briefing.
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For example, a search for the Dalai Lama, the religious leader, would turn up state media accounts within China that accused him of stirring up hatred and separatism.
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That tapped into a strong sentiment in much of Spain, where separatism has also been rejected as an attempt by wealthy Catalonia to abandon poorer regions like Andalusia.
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The party used to sympathize with separatism, but to win control of the state parliament, it joined hands with the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party three years ago.
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As the civil rights movement lost steam and gave way to the separatism of Black Power, the group spoke from a standpoint of disillusionment, although with vigorous attitude.
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They told us that Scotland would leave Britain; in fact, support for separatism has collapsed, and the Scottish first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has shelved her planned independence referendum.
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It does mean that if said force isn't soundly rooted in compassion, it can only result in more of the fear and separatism that nationalism requires to function.
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Catalan separatism has posed a major challenge for Spain for years and triggered the country's biggest political crisis in decades in 2017 when the region briefly declared independence.
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Beijing denies any mistreatment of the Uighurs or others in Xinjiang, saying it is providing vocational training to help stamp out militancy and separatism and teach new skills.
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"Some people want to talk about separatism but that's because they want to stir the pot," said Janet Brown, who conducts political polling in Alberta for news organizations.
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"The Chinese government has long harbored suspicion about the Uighur population's loyalty to China, confusing ethnic identity with separatism," said Sophie Richardson, China lead for Human Rights Watch.
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The 55-year-old former journalist is unlikely to find much support among German politicians who have largely backed Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's crackdown on Catalan separatism.
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In a blog post, Facebook said that any "praise, support, and representation of white nationalism and separatism" would be banned when the new policy goes into effect next week.
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China has long been concerned at links between Islamist militants in Central Asia and those Beijing accuses of promoting separatism in the violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang.
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There are worrying links, as the Chinese authorities are keen to point out, between Uighur separatism and global jihad, especially in the Uighur diaspora, which is based in Turkey.
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Xi has expanded the size of the military and cracked down heavily on any signs of separatism or even non-Chinese identity in places such as Xinjiang or Tibet.
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Mr Putin's backing for Bosnian Serb separatism is part of his strategy of sowing chaos in the EU, which has subjected Russia to sanctions over its intervention in Ukraine.
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The United States is widely seen as the last major Western power that has still held meetings with the Dalai Lama despite Beijing's objections that such encounters foment separatism.
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Here Ali was, a converted Muslim who openly embraced black separatism with a undeniably singular voice, charming and colloquial, his radicalism tinged with quick rhymes and an indefatigable smile.
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It has been shattered by China's campaign to crush separatism and eradicate support for the Dalai Lama, their spiritual leader who fled to India after an uprising in 1959.
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Since relations broke down over Russia's annexation of Crimea and support for pro-Russian separatism, Ukraine has relied on gas from storage and reverse flow purchases from EU neighbours.
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Today Donald Trump is the probable Republican presidential nominee in America, the National Front is rampant in France and the British government is fighting both Scottish separatism and Europhobia.
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Fishman said the ban will not extend to implicit or coded white nationalism and white separatism, noting those messages are harder to identify and take down, according to Motherboard.
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The 19 countries that share the euro appear vulnerable to political discord and widening separatism as they contend with an influx of refugees, aging populations and tepid economic growth.
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He recently spoke on social media about a diplomatic crisis between London and Moscow as well as about Catalonian separatism, despite warnings by Ecuador to avoid controversial political subjects.
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Today, separatism is largely in retreat, poutine is a national treasure, though proudly Québécois, and people the world over see Canada — and Quebec — as enviable social and economic models.
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Pressure is increasing on the European Union to mediate, but at a time of rising nationalism and populism, the last thing the bloc wants is to encourage regional separatism.
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He took on everyone: the violent militants who promote separatism and the Indian and Pakistani armies that shell each other from the swaths of the province they both occupy.
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And according to Time, the combination of the book and his death caused his life story to be remembered for his perseverance rather than his focus on racial separatism.
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The Xinjiang issue is not about human rights but about countering separatism and terrorism, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a daily news briefing in Beijing on Wednesday.
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It is, critics say, essentially dominated by the Syrian Kurdish YPD – which means its successes are viewed with suspicion by neighboring Turkey – no fan of Kurdish separatism – and Iraq.
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Motherboard reported on Wednesday that Facebook is shifting its policy on white nationalism and white separatism and made the decision to ban them from the platform one day prior.
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Turkey fears that Kurdish control of the border would strengthen Kurdish separatism in Turkey, where the government is fighting Kurdish groups, some of which have carried out terrorist attacks.
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According to a statement on the local government website on Friday, Mr. Li recently implored local officials to "always be on alert in the war against separatism and terrorism."
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He started a newspaper called "Muhammad Speaks," and called for radical change such as black separatism, whereby black people would remove themselves from predominantly white institutions and even nations.
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Facebook Bans White Nationalism and White Separatism Facebook previously allowed white nationalist speech on the platform, but is changing its policy to prevent it, Joseph Cox and Jason Koebler reported.
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Promoting the interest of whites Oren Segal, director of the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism, said white nationalism is a term for a form of white supremacy or separatism.
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From the letter:These documents—which are used to instruct and guide Facebook's content moderators—draw an arbitrary line between white supremacy, white nationalism and white separatism, despite glaring internal inconsistencies.
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Black separatism was more popular in America at the turn of the 20th century, with activists like Marcus Garvey who advocated for black people returning to Africa in the 1920s.
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It is an advocate for the free market, a recentralization of the state (it wants to abolish autonomous regions - like Catalonia - that it says have fomented separatism) and electoral reform.
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Since relations broke down over Russia's annexation of Crimea and support for pro-Russian separatism, Ukraine has relied on gas from storage and reverse flow purchases from European Union neighbors.
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But with 30 million ethnic Kurds scattered across the region - mainly in Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria - Tehran and Ankara fear the spread of separatism to their own Kurdish populations.
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In a move that's months in the making, Facebook announced Wednesday that beginning next week, it will take down posts supporting both white nationalism and white separatism, including on Instagram.
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The Houthis' rise to power in the north has provoked a revival of southern separatism, a movement that sees the fracturing of state power as its moment to break away.
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The company recently decided that its policies separating white nationalism and white separatism from this hateful ideology was inaccurate and banned posts in support of the two beliefs as well.
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Facebook wrestled with how to update its policies, finally banning white nationalism and white separatism in March of this year, though actually enforcing that policy has been a mixed bag.
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Beijing denies any mistreatment of the Uighurs or others in Xinjiang, saying it is provide vocational training to help stamp out Islamic extremism and separatism and teach new work skills.
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Beijing denies any mistreatment of the Uighurs or others in Xinjiang, saying it is providing vocational training to help stamp out Islamic extremism and separatism and teach new work skills.
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Some Saudi Shiites, who make up about 10 percent of the population, protested in solidarity or even set up offices in Tehran — stoking Saudi fears of internal unrest and separatism.
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Successive center-right political leaders have repeatedly warned against "Islamist terrorism" (Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany) and the incompatibility with European values of "Islamist separatism" (President Emmanuel Macron of France).
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She had campaigned against pro-Russia separatism but had recently shifted her focus to corruption and attacks on civic activists, accusing the police of passiveness in investigations of the attacks.
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Morris and Ze'evi vigorously challenge the Turkish argument that after World War I Greek separatism in the Black Sea region posed a danger to the emerging Turkish state requiring deportation.
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Pressure is increasing on the European Union to mediate, but at a time of rising nationalism and populism, the last thing that the bloc wants is to encourage regional separatism.
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To Chinese readers, mentions of separatism and terrorism invoke Xinjiang, the northwestern province where China is holding an estimated one million members of the Uighur minority in political indoctrination camps.
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Mr Duterte had a narrower objective, too: to resolve once and for all Muslim separatism on the island of Mindanao, over whose biggest city he presided for decades as mayor.
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Given how much money and effort the CCP puts into shielding itself from international backlash and domestic separatism, it seems unlikely that it would be willing to take this risk.
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If the prime minister actually was on that side of the globe to demonstrate how serious the Canadian government takes Sikh separatism, this is a Curb Your Enthusiasm–level disaster.
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Phrases such as "I am a proud white nationalist" and "Immigration is tearing this country apart; white separatism is the only answer" will now be banned, according to the company.
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The group strongly believes in black self-reliance and separatism from power structures dominated by whites, one of the factors that facilitated its higher profile during the civil rights era.
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PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said on Wednesday Britain leaving the European Union would bring a wave of nationalism and separatism to Europe and would weaken the European idea.
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Mr Rivera (pictured) admits that his party's success in Catalonia, where it won 25% (the PP got just 20153%) thanks to its resolute opposition to separatism, helped its recent poll bounce.
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China claims Taiwan as its own and considers the self-ruled island a wayward province, which Xi said on Tuesday would face the "punishment of history" for any attempt at separatism.
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His remarks caused a storm in Spain, partly because a defensive Spanish nationalism has been revived by Catalan separatism and partly because they came in the midst of an election campaign.
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It is the first time since the party dismantled the Dalai Lama's government in Tibet in 1959 that sympathisers of separatism have gained a foothold in a political institution in China.
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" Later, on The Graham Norton Show, he reiterated his stance on inclusiveness, saying: "I feel very strongly that there is a regression in America toward separatism and racial and religious exclusion.
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Meanwhile, polls show Vox is on track to almost double its seats in Parliament, leapfrogging Podemos and Ciudadanos to become Spain's third largest party after taking a hardline stance against separatism.
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With risks of further crisis in the former Soviet Union likely, the U.S. government should reassess its tools to thwart and mitigate Moscow's support for separatism and conflicts in the future.
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It is separatism as spiritual quarantine—not an original idea within the global history of Christendom, as Dreher himself admits, but one he hopes to revive for current and future generations.
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Add to that the accusations by European politicians that Moscow influenced Brexit, Catalan separatism and elections everywhere from France to Malta: Mr. Putin's core voters feel proud of their omnipotent leader.
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The latest Chinese military movements come during a time of heightened tension between Beijing and the island and follows strong warnings by Chinese President Xi Jinping against Taiwan separatism last month.
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The region is home to many of the country's Uighurs, a Turkic ethnic group, and the Chinese government has blamed Islamic extremism and Uighur separatism for deadly attacks on Chinese targets.
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Moscow has also arbitrarily imposed laws passed by the Russian Federation, using provisions intended to fight terrorism and separatism to curb dissent and freedom of the press, the United Nations said.
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Yet it is for the same reason that Beijing has spent decades persecuting other religions or spiritual practices not typically associated with modern terrorism or separatism, like Protestantism and Falun Gong.
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So be it if achieving that now means tolerating China's heavy hand; this group frowns on any talk of separatism, or even just further democratization, that could invite retaliation from Beijing.
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Mr. Kadyrov's role has become a major issue between Mr. Putin and the opposition, parts of which support or would accept Chechnya's independence — though officially, public discussion of separatism is illegal.
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Less than two weeks after the terror attack, Facebook announced that it would ban all "praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism" on its flagship platform and on Instagram.
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He issued a strongly worded statement on Facebook calling for respect and understanding for China's desire to oppose any form of separatism after a long history of intervention by foreign powers.
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He described dialogue with Catalonia, where separatism has been rife, as the "only possible path" forward, but made clear any negotiations must abide by the constitution, which upholds Spain's territorial integrity.
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He described dialog with Catalonia, where separatism has been rife, as the "only possible path" forward, but made clear any negotiations must abide by the constitution, which upholds Spain's territorial integrity.
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The question of how many outsiders should be let into the province - the second most populous in Canada - has eclipsed arguments over separatism that have dominated politics in Quebec in recent decades.
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Xi said in March that Taiwan would face the "punishment of history" for any attempt at separatism, offering his strongest warning yet to the island claimed by China as its sacred territory.
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Alex Hern reports in the Guardian: White nationalism and white separatism were previously allowed on Facebook as the company considered only white "supremacy" to be in breach of its hate speech policies.
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Great Firewall While there are some hard and fast rules for what content is banned in China — pornography, separatism, terrorism, for example — for the most part companies are expected to regulate themselves.
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With a large Kurdish population of its own, concentrated in the southeast, Ankara has long resisted Kurdish ambitions for independence in Iraq, Syria or Iran, fearing it could inflame separatism inside Turkey.
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MADRID (Reuters) - The former leader of Catalonia will stand trial for holding an independence referendum, the regional court ruled on Thursday, potentially fuelling tensions with a Spanish government determined to resist separatism.
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There are still some proponents, found mostly in Independent Fundamentalist Baptist churches and institutions like Bob Jones University and Pensacola Christian College, but they're a minority, doomed partially by their own separatism.
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He did not give a comparison, but last year in his work report he said courts convicted 712 people for separatism and terrorism in 2014, up 13.3 percent on the previous year.
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"(The UCP) is suggesting if we don't get what we want, there are plenty of people here that view separatism seriously," said Jared Wesley, political science professor at the University of Alberta.
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Mr Xi has expanded the scope of United Front work, adding the ninth bureau for work in Xinjiang, meaning that the organisation now oversees China's fierce struggle against separatism in the region.
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Link to report Beijing denies any mistreatment of the Uighurs or others in Xinjiang, saying it is providing vocational training to help stamp out Islamic extremism and separatism and teach new skills.
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The Ukraine government has relied on gas from storage and reverse flow purchases from European Union neighbours since relations broke down over Russia's annexation of Crimea and support for pro-Russian separatism.
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"From my research and interviews with other Uyghurs, some other Uyghur intellectuals were also accused of this [separatism] charge, not mention the famous case of Ilham Tohti," he told Insider via email.
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He did so within the strict confines of censorship imposed by the Chinese authorities, who are ever wary of ethnic separatism and Islamic extremism among the predominantly Muslim peoples of the region.
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Last week, more than two years after our first meeting, Mr. Tashi was tried in court for "inciting separatism," a criminal charge that largely amounts to seeking independence from the Chinese state.
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Earlier this year, the German carmaker Daimler apologized after its Mercedes-Benz brand quoted the Dalai Lama — whom the Chinese consider a dangerous voice for separatism in Tibet — in an Instagram post.
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Today's left has not embraced the separatism or the revolutionary fantasies of the last days of the '60s left, but, as someone who was there, I find disturbing echoes in the present.
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"In recent years Xinjiang has grown very quickly and the standard of living has consistently risen, but even so ethnic separatism and terrorist violence have still been on the rise," he noted.
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The shift towards separatism has alarmed Beijing, with Chinese President Xi Jinping saying during a visit to the city last year that advocating independence was a "red line" for the central government.
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But according to some of the leaked documents, it has decided that it will allow white nationalism and white separatism, which Black history scholars say is indistinguishable and inseparable from white supremacy.
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Facebook has announced a ban on content that includes "praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism" — a significant policy shift that comes after months of criticism from civil rights groups.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will step up efforts to tackle subversion, terrorism, separatism and religious extremism, President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday in a speech at the opening of a key Communist Party Congress.
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The United States had tried to stir up separatism in southern Russia in the 1990s, said Putin, something he said he knew for a fact from his stint leading the FSB spy agency.
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Mr Rivera wants a hard-line approach to Catalan separatism, not dialogue as Mr Sánchez advocates; he also sees an opportunity to displace the PP as the dominant force on the centre-right.
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It wasn't until about three weeks after the first article (and well after the shooting) that Facebook finally determined white nationalism should be banned under its existing policies against white separatism and supremacy.
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After college, Heimbach attracted attention for showing up at the Conservative Political Action Conference and advocating for segregation, and assumed a leadership role in the Traditionalist Youth Network, a group promoting white separatism.
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The odyssey to this moment started last May, when Motherboard published excerpts of leaked internal training documents for Facebook moderators that outlined the platform's stance on white nationalism, white separatism, and white supremacy.
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These include additional details on how Facebook differentiates between white supremacy, separatism, and nationalism—classifications that some experts say are really the same thing—as well as hate figures and speech more generally.
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It took Facebook two years to realize that white nationalism is just an expedient synonym for white supremacist values rather than a harmless form of pride akin to American pride or Basque separatism.
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Various recent polls have indicated that support for the Socialists has declined since the sometimes violent protests while parties on the right calling for a stronger stance against separatism have received a boost.
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Publications once known for their independent-mindedness and liberal views, like Ming Pao and Hong Kong Economic Journal, have recently run editorials denouncing separatism or touting China's national security interests above all else.
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The latest Chinese military movements come during a time of heightened tension between Beijing and the self-governed island and follows strong warnings by Chinese President Xi Jinping against Taiwan separatism last month.
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He was rearrested in January 2014 and flown to Xinjiang, and after a two-day trial in the region's capital, Urumqi, that September, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of separatism.
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While Mr. Rajoy did not present the new law as a buffer against Catalan separatism, it could nonetheless be used to replace key Catalan officials very swiftly, without seeking approval from the Senate.
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"Xinjiang is in an active period of terrorist activities, intense struggle against separatism and painful intervention to treat this," Mr. Xi told officials, according to reports in the state news media last year.
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Ilmi Umerov, deputy head of the Crimean Tatars' semi-official Mejlis legislature before it was suspended by Moscow, was sentenced last month by a Russian court to two years in jail for separatism.
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" The documents also linked the campaign back to President Xi through previously unpublished speeches he made to local officials in 2014, calling for "absolutely no mercy" in a crackdown on "terrorism ... and separatism.
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Rights advocates said at the time of Tohti's sentencing after a two-day trial on separatism charges in September 2014 that it sent a clear signal the government was determined to suppress dissent.
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Unlike other civil rights leaders who advocated for nonviolent civil disobedience, Malcolm X promoted self-defense and racial justice "by any means necessary," and called for racial separatism between black and white Americans.
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Turkey, which has its own set of issues concerning Kurdish separatism, expressed its displeasure Monday by engaging in military drills that featured dozens of tanks near the border of the northern Kurdish region.
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Such an alliance could put the independence movement in difficult position as it would mean a main secession supporter joining forces with parties that reject Madrid's hard line but do not support separatism.
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The party has resonated with voters that are disaffected with government attempts to deal with regional separatism (a cause it vehemently opposes) in the Basque Country and Catalonia, and, to a lesser extent, immigration.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China jailed a Tibetan businessman for five years on Tuesday for "inciting separatism", his lawyer said, after he advocated the use of Tibetan in schools and was featured in international media reports.
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The striking thing to me today is just how aggressive the Apple separatism is with the HomePod: without even basic Bluetooth streaming, the HomePod is, to borrow a famous Apple line, unapologetically Apple-centric.
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But with its parliament now fragmented by the emergence of new parties during the economic slump, and with an enormous constitutional problem over separatism in Catalonia, it has yet to find renewed political stability.
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Related: Ukraine's Mystery Battle: Hunting for Truths Across an Elastic Border The slew of propaganda on Russian, state-owned news outlets has not only hailed Crimea's annexation, stoked separatism, and vilified Kiev's new government.
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Seeing as it took Facebook years to concede that white nationalism and white separatism are actually the same thing as white supremacy, independent oversight of content decisions is probably not that bad an idea.
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In any case, those numbers are almost sure to spike in the company's next transparency report: In March, the company finally decided include white nationalism and white separatism in its definition of hate speech.
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She got a polite hearing but won no commitment, and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain, which is concerned about separatism in its own Catalonia region, said Madrid would block direct negotiations with Scotland.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday that she welcomed Facebook Inc's decision to ban praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism on its social media platforms.
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Ankara is determined to prevent the Kurdish YPG militia, which it sees as a hostile force, from joining up cantons it controls along the Turkish border, fearing that would embolden Kurdish separatism at home.
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In a commentary published by the official Xinjiang Daily on Monday, Yasin Sidik, a senior official from Kashgar city in Xinjiang, urged fellow ethnic Uighur cadres to "bravely stand at the forefront against separatism".
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Mercifully, it is extremely unlikely that China will resort to the tactics it has used to crush separatism in Tibet and Xinjiang in the far west, namely sending in troops and conducting mass arrests.
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One was Betsy Warrior, a former battered woman who was a founding member of Cell 16, a radical feminist group whose journal, No More Fun and Games , advocated celibacy, separatism, and wages for housework.
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After 1900, the South had Jim Crow, a legal regime of separatism, but the rest of the country had ghettos, redlining, gerrymandering, quota and exclusion systems, and the artifice of the local school district.
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Zhang Xiaoming, the head of Beijing's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, told reporters at the time that the FCC had broken the law by hosting a "separatist" and was in effect aiding separatism.
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In Xinjiang, home to the mostly Muslim Uighurs, China fears separatism and religious extremism and has detained what the United Nations says could be as many as one million of them in internment camps.
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The two sides agreed to bolster efforts to combat the threats of terrorism, separatism and religious extremism, as well as international criminal groups and drug trafficking by launching professional intelligence exchanges, the posting said.
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Still, the left clearly won Spain's third national election in four years as the mainstream conservative Popular Party (PP) lost votes to Vox, which benefited from anti-immigration sentiment and concerns over Catalan separatism.
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Turkey is determined to prevent the Kurdish YPG militia, which it sees as a hostile force, from joining up cantons it controls along the Turkish border, fearing that would embolden Kurdish separatism at home.
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Since last year, the Chinese government has carried out a broad campaign against what it calls separatism and religious extremism, detaining thousands of Uighurs and members of other minority groups in re-education camps.
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Although Vox differs from some of those movements in significant ways — it has grown amid domestic tensions generated by Catalan separatism, for instance — it shares with them a strong dislike of migrants, especially Muslims.
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The Catalan vote was declared unconstitutional by Spain's own courts, and in a time of rising nationalism and populism, the last thing that the European Union wants to do is to encourage regional separatism.
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But ever ready to mystify the obvious, the governing elite coined last week a linguistic shortcut for all that under a term, "separatism" — immigrant communities that do not integrate into the broader French society.
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It includes the lively debate over Rod Dreher's recent book "The Benedict Option," with its insistence that politics cannot save American Christianity and that some form of cultural separatism is essential for religious renewal.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would curb the practice of foreign countries sending imams and teachers to France to crack down on what he called the risk of "separatism".
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"RESISTING" THROUGH SELF-SUFFICIENCY Syrian Kurdish officials say the aim is not separatism, but a decentralized system of government which they say must be at the heart of any solution to the Syrian conflict.
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From our perspective, peace in the Middle East will remain elusive unless the various stakeholders stop fueling separatism and instead focus on creating strong democratic institutions to ensure peace, stability and freedom for all.
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Parliament is expected to vote on a cabinet line-up this week following Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk's resignation on Sunday after months of political infighting in a country already destabilised by pro-Russian separatism.
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The protracted seizure has worried the region about the extent the Islamic State's agenda may have gained traction in the southern Philippines, which is more used to banditry, piracy and separatism than radical Islam.
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I was hugely influenced by lesbian separatism—I lived as a teenager for over a year at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, set up in 20043, outside a nuclear missile base in southern England.
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" Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings also spoke at the service, saying that the "soul of our city was pierced" by the shootings, and calling for the nation's leaders to wage a "battle against violence and separatism.
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People in northern Iraq voted overwhelmingly in favour of independence in Monday's non-binding vote that was opposed by Baghdad, Turkey and Iran, who all fear it could encourage separatism among their own Kurdish populations.
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Rajoy, who called the elections after sacking the previous secessionist government, had hoped Catalonia's "silent majority" would deal separatism a decisive blow in what was a de facto independence referendum, but his hard line backfired.
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The former Soviet republic has not bought gas directly from Russia since November 2015, following a breakdown in relations after Russia's annexation of Crimea and support for pro-Russian separatism in Ukraine's war-torn east.
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While separatism fervor has ebbed as citizens welcome a return to stability, there is a desire for devolution of power to the regional level, particularly when it comes to land and policing rights, says Das.
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Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty)In the process of reporting a related story, a Facebook spokesperson provided Gizmodo with the company's internal slides discussing its position on white nationalism and white separatism, adopted in late March.
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The question of how many outsiders should be let into the majority French-speaking province - the second most populous in Canada - has eclipsed arguments over separatism that have dominated politics in Quebec in recent decades.
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They are pressing ahead despite the objections of foreign governments which fear Syria's disintegration and alarm from neighboring Turkey, which fears a growing Kurdish sway in Syria is fuelling separatism among its own minority Kurds.
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Serious disagreement among members remains, even if it is usually hidden from view behind diplomatic language on which everyone can agree, such as what China calls the "three evil forces of terrorism, separatism and extremism".
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"We decided that the overlap between white nationalism, [white] separatism, and white supremacy is so extensive we really can't make a meaningful distinction between them," Brian Fishman, policy director of counterterrorism at Facebook, told Motherboard.
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Antonio Barroso, managing director of political consultancy Teneo, said that, while Vox's position on Spanish "cultural" issues like Franco and separatism - which it opposes - was clear, little was known about its stance on broader policy matters.
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A call for segregation is impermissible, but it seems groups like "White Genocide Watch" and "White Genocide or Diversity," which argue that separatism is the only way white people can survive in America, are both fine.
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" Therefore, the audit team recommends Facebook expand its policy to prohibit content that "expressly praises, supports, or represents white nationalist ideology" even if the content does not explicitly use the terms "white nationalism" or "white separatism.
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Some may do so: there are growing fissures within Catalan separatism, especially between Mr Puigdemont and Oriol Junqueras, his former deputy, who is the leading defendant but who does not back a further unilateral independence bid.
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But the social media company added a bizarre rationalization of its previous decisions by invoking "American pride" and Basque separatism, an ethnic separatist movement in Spain for the minority Basques that dates back to the 1950s.
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The company last week banned praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism in the wake of a massacre of 50 people at two mosques in New Zealand that was live-streamed in March.
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Sanchez declared negotiations dead on Monday, raising the prospect of Spain facing its fourth election in as many years as the fragmented political system struggles to resolve big problems ranging from Catalan separatism to budget reform.
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China sentenced Ilham's father, Ilham Tohti, an economics professor and Uighur rights advocate, to life in prison on charges of separatism in 2014, drawing condemnation at the time from the United States and international rights groups.
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While it says Facebook does not allow praise, support, or representation of white supremacy, it does allow the same sort of positions for white nationalism and separatism, according to one of the slides obtained by Motherboard.
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Significantly, Iñigo Urkullu, the leader of the Basque region, which also has a long history of separatism, described the measures as "disproportionate and extreme," writing on Twitter that they would "dynamite the bridges" to any dialogue.
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It prefigured what has come since: the return of ethnic separatism, the rise of authoritarian populism, the retreat of liberal democracy, the elevation of a warrior ethos that reduces politics to friend/enemy, zero-sum conflicts.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's deputy foreign minister said on Monday that developments in Catalonia were "worrying" and separatism was not the answer after a violence-marred independence vote was held in the northeastern Spanish region on Sunday.
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It was, Dr. Melson recalled, a troubling article, by Harvard's first African-American tenured professor, Martin Kilson, who criticized what he saw as racial separatism on campus, and asked for a reconsideration of the admissions process.
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Despite anger in the crowd over the lack of unity among separatist parties on what strategy to adopt towards Madrid, Wednesday's large, peaceful gathering in central Barcelona showed Catalan separatism remains a major challenge for Spain.
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While Syrian Kurds say they want to remain part of Syria, regional concern over Kurdish separatism has deepened since Iraqi Kurds voted for independence, triggering military action by Iraq and tough measures by Turkey and Iran.
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Documents leaked to Motherboard reveal that the company has distinguished between expressions of white nationalism (which Facebook did not accept) and white separatism (which Facebook did accept); the company has announced that it is reviewing these policies.
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With the largest Kurdish population in the region, Turkey also fears that a "Yes" vote would fuel separatism in its southeast, where militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have waged an insurgency for three decades.
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As Motherboard first reported earlier this year, Facebook bans "white supremacy" on the platform but specifically allows "white nationalism" and "white separatism," which, according to historians who have studied race in America, are indistinguishable from white supremacy.
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Internet censors on Chinese social media block content related to sensitive political issues — like criticism of the country's top leaders and issues around separatism — as well as seemingly routine news topics that fluctuate on a daily basis.
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During a trial in January in northwest China's Yushu prefecture in Qinghai province, the Times' video report was heavily cited as evidence for the charges of inciting separatism brought against Tashi, his lawyers said at the time.
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The 3 right-of-center parties contesting the election have been portraying Sanchez as sympathetic to Calatan separatism at a time when leaders of the independence movement are on trial in Madrid for staging a 2017 referendum.
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Turkey has the region's largest Kurdish population and fears a 'Yes' vote could fuel separatism in its southeast where Kurdish militants have waged an insurgency for three decades in which more than 40,000 people have been killed.
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White nationalism is a belief that white people should be in charge of a given nation, while white separatism is a desire to establish a whites-only nation by banishing people of color and heavily restricting immigration.
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The Kurdish YPG militia is at the center of U.S. strategy for fighting Islamic State in Syria, despite opposition from U.S. ally Turkey, which fears Kurdish influence in northern Syria will fuel separatism among its Kurdish minority.
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Anger in much of the rest of Spain with Catalan separatism already played a huge role in the Socialists' defeat in regional elections in December in Andalusia to a right-wing coalition backed by the far-right.
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Together, they demonstrate a pattern of Russian foreign policy, which manufactures frozen conflicts by inciting ethnic tensions and separatism as a means of increasing Moscow's long-term influence and leverage over target states in its near abroad.
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Support for parties on the right, which traditionally take a tougher line on Catalan separatism, has increased since last month's riots, opinion polls show, while the Socialists — now the largest party — could lose seats but still win.
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"Our own review of hate figures and organizations – as defined by our Dangerous Individuals & Organizations policy – further revealed the overlap between white nationalism and separatism and white supremacy," Facebook said in the blog post announcing the change.
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Turkey has the region's largest Kurdish population and fears a "Yes" vote could fuel separatism in its southeast where Kurdish militants have waged an insurgency for three decades in which more than 40,000 people have been killed.
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As the secession crisis in Catalonia deepens, attention has turned to the northern Basque region — which, like Catalonia, has its own language, culture and long history of separatism — to see if the desire for independence proves contagious.
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"Any person or organization is prohibited from carrying out or spreading separatism in expressing opinions in public and violation of this will result in strict action and law enforcement," state news agency Antara reported, citing the notices.
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While initial results indicated overwhelming support for independence, Turkey - long northern Iraq's main link to the outside world - sees the referendum as a threat to its own security, fearing it will inflame separatism among its Kurdish population.
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The Chinese government says that its policies in Xinjiang are intended to curb terrorism and separatism, and that the camps provide instruction in Chinese language and other skills to people who might be susceptible to extremist ideas.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua hosted its first independent film festival this week, showing documentaries on social issues such as land rights and grinding poverty, but steering clear of the highly sensitive subject of separatism.
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In 2015, a prominent Tibetan religious leader, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, 65, died while serving a prison sentence on charges of "terrorism and inciting separatism" after his request for medical parole to treat a heart ailment went unanswered.
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I don't believe God believes in separatism so I wanted to say I don't believe in hell, or that God would be happy that people would use religion as a badge of honour, or to justify their wars.
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The new arrangement, which a conference in the Kurdish-controlled town of Rmeilan agreed would be announced on Thursday, would alarm neighboring Turkey, which fears growing Kurdish sway in Syria is fuelling separatism among its own minority Kurds.
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The latest victim was Eddie Chu, who was recently barred from standing in a local poll because an election official ruled that he had "defended independence as an option to Hong Kongers," even though he himself disavowed separatism.
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The report also contains a number of recommendations, including going beyond Facebook's current ban of explicit white nationalism, to also include content that supports the ideology even if the terms "white nationalism" or "white separatism" are not used.
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Some of that is due to the existence of a distinct "black conservative" political tradition — think Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, and other apostles of black self-help and separatism — that aligns poorly with mainstream white conservative politics.
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Ethnic tensions have been common during all those years, and soon after 9/11, Chinese authorities started invoking the specter of "the three evil forces of separatism, extremism and terrorism" as a pretense to crack down on Uighurs.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police have banned violent demonstrations and speeches promoting separatism in the easternmost region of Papua, which had been rocked by protests for two weeks, its security chief and the state news agency said on Monday.
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The government says it is stamping out separatism, but advocates say Mr. Xi is leading a campaign to undermine minority culture and to promote the dominance of the Han ethnicity and the Communist Party, which is officially atheist.
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A year after leaked documents revealed that Facebook allowed praise for white nationalism and separatism on its platform after the August 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, VA, the company implemented a so-called white nationalist ban.
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In the wake of criticism over how it polices its platform, Facebook said that while it had long prohibited hateful treatment of people based on race, it hadn't applied the same rationale to white nationalism and white separatism.
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Arguing that special provisions for the region had hindered its development and fueled separatism, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government separated the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two federally-controlled territories at the end of October.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping warned self-ruled Taiwan on Tuesday that it will face the "punishment of history" for any attempt at separatism, offering his strongest warning yet to the island claimed by China as its sacred territory.
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On the one hand, there are separatist groups that seek to break away from their nation-state and establish new countries; on the other, there is the outraged and assertive nationalism of existing states, determined to crush separatism.
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Celibacy and separatism as lifestyles were unrealistic options for some, like women who were economically tied to their husbands, or women of color who felt that they were being forced to choose between their gender and race loyalties.
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Ever since Spain's return to democracy in the 1970s, Madrid has struggled to balance the country's patchwork of regional identities, including its decades-long fight to quell separatism in the northern Basque Country led by violent militants ETA.
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African Americans during the civil rights era did not (and still do not) all agree on tactics or a single ideology; some of them believed in armed struggle and even separatism while others were interested in electoral change.
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In Brussels, EU officials remain cool to talk of Scotland joining the bloc in its own right — just as they were during its 2014 independence referendum, when veto-wielding members like Spain voiced worries about fuelling separatism at home.
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PP, Ciudadanos and Vox are competing for the anti-separatism vote but the Socialists, after refusing to give in to Catalan demands to secure their backing for the budget, will also aim to use the issue to their advantage.
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Wong was speaking during a visit to Taipei at a time of increased hostility between the self-ruled island and Beijing and just a day after Chinese President Xi Jinping issued his strongest warning against Taiwan separatism to date.
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They have been seeking autonomy since the Reza Shah Pahlavi regime, but the central government has never cracked down on the Kurds like the governments in Iraq and Turkey, though it has never entertained any idea of Kurdish separatism.
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Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, 65, had been serving a life sentence for "crimes of terror and incitement of separatism" when his family was told on July 12, 2015, that he had died in prison in China's southwestern city of Chengdu.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spain's electoral commission barred former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont from running in the European Parliament elections in May, he said on Monday, a day after a general election where the region's separatism has been a pivotal issue.
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According to slides recreated by Motherboard, Facebook asserts that "we don't allow praise, support and representation of white supremacy as an ideology" but stipulates that it does "allow praise, support and representation" for both white nationalism and white separatism.
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King Felipe's tough words were mostly welcomed by Spanish politicians as a strong defense of the constitutional order, as well as a mandate for Mr. Rajoy to take every emergency measure needed to stop Catalan separatism in its tracks.
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China's foreign ministry and local officials criticized the club for hosting a speaker who advocates separatism, and a former Hong Kong leader said the government should reconsider the lease of the group's clubhouse in a historic, public-owned building.
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The point of the editorial was that much of the Spanish government's problem with Catalonian separatism is due to Madrid's antagonism, mismanagement and incompetence, which have fortified the appeal for a measure that may not truly have deep support.
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"In recent years, Xinjiang has grown very quickly and the standard of living has consistently risen, but even so ethnic separatism and terrorist violence have still been on the rise," Mr. Xi said in a speech to party officials.
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When it was first performed here half a century ago — it was commissioned for Canada's centennial — many saw the opera, which pits French-speaking Catholics against English-speaking Protestants, as an allegory about Quebec and its dreams of separatism.
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Facebook says additional conversations with civil rights groups and experts "confirmed that white nationalism and separatism cannot be meaningfully separated from white supremacy and organized hate groups," leading the social media platform to expand its policy on hate language.
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The Chinese surveillance birds have reportedly been deployed most heavily in the region of Xinjiang, a far-west province of China with a large Muslim population which has long been considered by central Chinese authorities as a hotbed for separatism.
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Racist and hateful content based on race, ethnicity, and religion has been banned under the former policy, but under Facebook's new rules, phrases like "Immigration is tearing this country apart; white separatism is the only answer" will also be prohibited.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A city in China's far-western Xinjiang region has ordered people who are "poisoned by extremism, terrorism and separatism", in contact with overseas terror groups or act in a conservative Islamic manner, to turn themselves in to authorities.
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MADRID, April 11 (Reuters) - Parties contesting Spain's national election on April 28 are wooing voters with a range of different campaign promises on human rights, immigration and separatism that could well influence the outcome more than social and economic factors.
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On Wednesday Facebook announced that as of next week "praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism" will be banned on both Facebook and Instagram, the company's flagship social media platforms which are collectively used by billions of people.
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Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, the prime minister who speaks fluent English and portrays himself as a Westernizer, has insisted that the government stand by its agreement with those who backed the fight against Russian separatism, including the interior minister, Mr. Avakov.
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Whatever the legality of separatism, once the desire for independence reaches a critical point, governments must deal with it in three ways: crush it, bow to it, or negotiate in good faith, knowing that separation may still be the outcome.
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Facebook decided Tuesday to ban content that offers praise and support of white nationalism and white separatism on its platform, and it will redirect users who try posting racist content to a nonprofit that urges people to leave hate groups.
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While some on the thread initially said, according to reports, that the post did not violate the Facebook's community standards, other executives worried that keeping the post live undercut the company's recently announced ban on white nationalism and white separatism content.
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A cycle of state repression fuelling separatism has raised concerns the majority French-speaking Cameroon may face a prolonged period of violence, after soldiers shot dead at least eight people in the country's two English-speaking regions on Oct 1.
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"Separatism has infiltrated and tried to destroy every aspect of life in Catalonia, even sadly Sant Jordi," said Albert Boadella, a playwright who is the unofficial "president" of Tabarnia, as his supporters lined up to have their photo taken with him.
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Few things are more likely to rile up Chinese leaders than talk of separatism, be it in Hong Kong, Tibet or Taiwan -- a self-governing island that has been de facto independent for decades but is still claimed by Beijing.
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US policy responses For the past 25 years, the U.S. government has supported the territorial integrity of post-Soviet states facing separatism and sought to contain the fallout from these frozen conflicts, although its efforts by and large have failed.
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Iraq is one of the only countries in the world that is closely allied to both the United States and Iran, and Tehran has used the Kurdish separatism bid as a way to drive a wedge between Washington and Baghdad.
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Even acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who had previously been among those most open to dialogue, has hardened his stance in recent days, promising to toughen criminal laws against separatism after right-wingers said he was too soft on Catalonia.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will "perfect" the way the leader of Hong Kong is appointed and replaced, and won't tolerate separatism or threats to national security there, a senior Chinese official said on Friday after a meeting of the top leadership.
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The ugliest manifestation of this, and the second worry, is Vox, a previously insignificant ultra-conservative party which rode anger about Catalan separatism and illegal immigration to win 11% of the vote in a regional election in Andalucía in December.
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Sprouting from the radical feminist movement within the 1970s second wave, political lesbianism is related to lesbian separatism, and promotes the idea that a woman can break from heterosexuality and simply refuse to incorporate sex with men into their lives.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping told self-ruled Taiwan on Tuesday that it would face the "punishment of history" for any attempt at separatism, offering his strongest warning yet to the island claimed by China as its sacred territory.
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That misguided policy failed to see that white nationalism, white pride and white separatism are guises for and generally synonymous with the ideals set forth by white supremacy, a dangerous form of race-motivated radicalism that inspires hate-based violence.
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As long as white supremacy, under the guise of white nationalism or white separatism, has a place on major tech platforms, users expressing even passing interest in white supremacist themes and language will be funneled deeper down the radicalization rabbit hole.
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While violent resistance has been episodic, and should be denounced, the Chinese authorities have suppressed even peaceful expression of Uyghur rights, most notably the 2014 life sentence handed down to Uyghur intellectual Ilham Tohti on the absurd charge of separatism.
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Baldwin felt alienated by Muhammad's black separatism and by his universal hatred of white people; at the same time, he admired Muhammad's acute understanding of the countless ways in which institutionalized white power continued to injure and suppress African-Americans.
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Chinese officials are planning to put Tashi Wangchuk, who advocates broader Tibetan language education, on trial next week for "inciting separatism," a charge that could result in a sentence of up to 15 years in prison, according to his lawyers.
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Leung Chun-ying, who served as Hong Kong's chief executive from 2012 to 2017, said the government, which owns the historic building the club rents in downtown Hong Kong, should not welcome a tenant that hosts a speaker who advocates separatism.
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As a measure of the sensitivity toward regional separatism, even today, five of the 28 member states of the European Union — including Spain — do not recognize the independence of Kosovo, although NATO itself fought the Serbian effort to retain the territory.
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MADRID — Catalan activists on Monday marked the first anniversary of their disputed independence referendum by blocking train tracks and roads across Spain's restive northeastern region and trying to break into the Catalan Parliament, underlining how charged the conflict over separatism remains.
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They hope that the charge of "separatism" will whitewash decades of policy errors in the run-up to the monumental thrashing they are expected to take in next month's local elections as a prelude to the presidential contest in 2022.
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China's top leader, Xi Jinping, in a meeting with the Nepalese prime minister on Sunday, delivered a stark warning against separatism that was likely targeted at advocates of Tibetan independence but could also be read as a signal to Hong Kong.
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ERC's parliamentary spokeswoman Marta Vilalta said it considered the negotiations with the Socialists as an "opportunity for Catalan separatism," but any decision on facilitating Sanchez's confirmation will depend on the party's governing body which is scheduled to meet on Jan. 2.
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"People who claim to want the nation-state are actually trying to have a pan-national movement to institutionalize separatism and division within borders all over the world," Clinton said at a Brookings Institution event in Washington, D.C., according to Politico.
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He had taken over the Nation of Islam after the death of his father, Elijah Muhammad, and had steered its membership away from racial separatism and toward mainstream Sunni Islam, changing the organization's name to the American Society of Muslims.
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Police, courts and prosecutors in Xinjiang's southern region of Kashgar offered "leniency" or "exemption from punishment" in return for full confessions to a wide range of crimes – from planning and inciting terrorism or separatism to making explosives, guns and ammunition.
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Mr. Raisani, who came from a prominent pro-Pakistan family in a province with a long history of separatism — his father was the governor, his brother was the chief minister, another brother was a senator — was contesting his first election.
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Facebook wants to be sure that enforcement of its policies is consistent around the world and from moderator to moderator, which is one of the reasons why its policy doesn't ban implicit or coded expressions of white nationalism or white separatism.
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In a May 2018 investigation, Motherboard found that internal Facebook moderator training documents allowed explicit support for white nationalism and separatism, claiming that these ideologies are not always rooted in hate or racism and were different from support for white supremacy.
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China has ramped up repression of Uighurs because of fears of separatism and extremism in Xinjiang, and Uighur militants were responsible for a series of knife and bomb attacks in public places in 2014 and have fought alongside extremists in Iraq and Syria.
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India said the move to revoke the status was to ensure the nation's laws were equal for all citizens and to increase economic development in the region, as well as to end separatism and terrorism it alleged was aided and abetted by Pakistan.
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Because of fears about separatism the electoral rules written in 1998 were designed to disqualify purely regional outfits; national parties had to have officers in half or more of the country's provinces, and in half or more of the districts within those provinces.
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"I feel like where we are right now, with so much division and separatism and superiority and inferiority, I just think that it is for a time like this, right now," Sonequa Martin-Green, who plays Burnham, said in an interview last week.
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PP, Ciudadanos and Vox are competing for the voices of those upset with separatism, but the Socialists, after refusing to give in to Catalan demands to secure their backing for the budget, will also aim to use the issue to their advantage.
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One of the distinctive characteristics of the evangelical faith is its dedication to applying faith to all aspects of life, not just those that are clearly "religious," and its emphasis on acts of service and community engagement as opposed to separatism and retreat.
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The takeover of Crimea and support for separatism in Donbass did not presage a policy of reconquering Eastern Europe, as many in the West feared, but it clearly set Ukraine and other former Soviet republics off limits to any future NATO enlargement.
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Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, 65, had been serving a life sentence for "crimes of terror and incitement of separatism" when his family was told on July 12, 2015, that he had died of a heart attack in prison in China's southwestern city of Chengdu.
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GENEVA — A prominent Uighur scholar who is serving a life sentence for separatism in a Chinese prison was named on Wednesday as a finalist for a prestigious human rights award for trying to promote dialogue in the troubled Xinjiang region of China.
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Catalan separatism, and the weeks of protests that erupted in the regional capital Barcelona following the sentencing of nine independence leaders to jail mid-October, have been thrust into the spotlight again as Spain gears up for its fourth election in four years.
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"The main problem is that the Communist Party of China is paranoid about calls for separatism and independence and continually overreacts to them," Michael Kovrig, senior advisor for North East Asia at the International Crisis Group, told CNBC on Thursday in an email.
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Image via Facebook Image via Facebook Six months ago, Facebook indicated that it would review its policy on white nationalism and white separatism after speaking with civil rights groups that decried the company's stance toward forms of white supremacy on its platform.
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While Facebook has said it will ban content that says, for example, "I am a proud white nationalist," Twitter's hateful conduct policy is not as specific, and the company declined to give specifics about white nationalism and white separatism when asked by Motherboard.
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GENEVA — Two years after the Chinese authorities sentenced the prominent Uighur intellectual Ilham Tohti to life imprisonment for promoting separatism and violence, a Swiss-based foundation awarded him a prestigious human rights prize on Tuesday for his efforts to foster dialogue and understanding.
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"He has rejected separatism and violence, and sought reconciliation based on a respect for Uighur culture," the foundation said in its announcement of the award, which flatly contradicts the Chinese government's depiction of Mr. Tohti as a dangerous separatist propagating hatred and extremism.
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The main Catalan conservative party embraced separatism in 2012, at the height of Spain's banking crisis, after Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's government refused to reduce the Catalan contribution to a Spanish tax system that redistributes money from the richest regions to poorer parts.
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In its place there is a renewed interest in separatism and retrenchment, and a turn toward exhortation and anathema — a combination that defines the recent conservative-evangelical Nashville Statement on homosexuality and gender identity, and that has generated counter-anathematization in its turn.
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Sanchez appeared keen to prevent the jailed leaders from being seen as political martyrs, however, and made several comments on Twitter about the Supreme Court judgment and separatism in Catalonia, an issue that has been a thorn in Madrid's side for decades.
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The move comes nearly six months after the Ecuadorean government suspended Assange's communications in March, after he discussed issues on social media that could damage the country's diplomatic relations, including a diplomatic crisis between London and Moscow as well as Catalonian separatism.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A court on Wednesday found a Crimean dissident opposed to Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea guilty of separatism and sentenced him to two years in a prison colony, a punishment supporters said amounted to a death penalty for such an ill man.
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Chinese are now organising in small ways to fight for labour rights, gay rights and environmental concerns but there is little indication that Han are gathering to defend their ethnic peers—perhaps unsurprisingly, given that to do so could be seen as supporting separatism.
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"I felt very seriously that there is a regression in America in general towards separatism and racial and religious exclusion, so for me, it's more about putting my hand up and reminding my community, the Hollywood community, that we have to lead," he said.
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"Over the past three months our conversations with members of civil society and academics who are experts in race relations around the world have confirmed that white nationalism and separatism cannot be meaningfully separated from white supremacy and organized hate groups," the company said.
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That several have now gained seats will be viewed in Beijing as a big political challenge—the opening of a new front, as the party would see it, in a battle against separatism that already confounds it in Xinjiang, Tibet and independently governed Taiwan.
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MADRID (Reuters) - The main candidates to become Spain's next prime minister clashed on Monday over how to handle Catalan separatism, as they tried to woo voters ahead of a repeat election that opinion polls show could be as inconclusive as the one in April.
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"I would like my questions answered in detail because they relate to lives," she said, raising among other concerns the situation of Ilham Tohti, a noted Uighur academic now serving a life sentence on charges related to separatism and reportedly suffering from ill health.
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Chinese officials have said that tightened security measures and limits on the religious practices of Uighurs, who are mostly Sunni Muslim, are aimed at trying to prevent violent, anti-state episodes in Uighur areas, which they have attributed to separatism, terrorism and religious extremism.
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The trend toward authoritarianism, while specific to each country's history, is rooted in insecurities and fears afflicting the world today: globalization and rising inequality, the stunning and scary advances in technology, the disorienting chaos and extreme violence of civil wars like Syria's, separatism and terror.
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Yet Mr. Tashi told Times journalists that he did not support Tibetan independence or separatism and was instead merely pushing for the Tibetan language to be properly taught in local schools, which prioritize Chinese language education, and for Tibetan to be used in government offices.
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On Thursday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the law change would bring stability and end "separatism, terrorism, dynastic politics and corruption" in Jammu and Kashmir, even as the United Nations warned against taking steps that "could affect the status" of the disputed region.
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But Friedan opposed making gay liberation, sexual harassment, rape, and what she thought of as radical separatism part of the feminist platform because she feared that a media that gravitated toward sex scandals and away from legislative efforts at equality would destroy the movement.
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The Second Chechen War, which the Russians launched in 1999, in an effort to curb not only Chechen separatism but the threat of militant Islam, wound down a decade later, with special operations carried out deep in the craggy, wooded hills of the Caucasus.
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" It said it had reconsidered that after "conversations with members of civil society and academics who are experts in race relations around the world" who said, according to Facebook, "that white nationalism and separatism cannot be meaningfully separated from white supremacy and organized hate groups.
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Experts, human rights groups, and officials in the United States and elsewhere estimate hundreds of thousands of people have been caught up in the campaign, part of an expansive crackdown that Beijing has put in place in the name of fighting extremism and separatism.
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" Forgetting the fact that all Uyghur literature produced in China is censored and approved by the state Culture Ministry, the film declared that the decisions made by Uyghur intellectuals should be considered "conspiracy and subversive activities" done for "the purpose of separatism" and "inciting ethnic hatred.
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Labour, the main opposition party, opposes Brexit (though its throwback socialist leader, Jeremy Corbyn, seems lukewarm on the subject.) Restive Scotland is strongly pro-Europe, and Britain's departure would likely strengthen separatism there and possibly in other parts of the "Celtic fringe," namely Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Tiyip underwent a secret and "grossly unfair" trial where he was convicted of "separatism" and sentenced to a "suspended death sentence" — where the detainee is eligible for commutation after two years provided they have committed no other crimes — two years ago this September, according to Amnesty International.
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At a time when the European Union is facing a host of pressing problems, from Brexit negotiations with Britain, to the rise of right-wing populism, to separatism in Spain's Catalonia region, the possibility of political instability in a normally reliable Germany sent tremors through the Continent.
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As Chinese have been dissuaded from crossing the border—in part because the message from Beijing has been that the protests have been about unpatriotic separatism, not a desire for representation—their numbers fell in August to 2.8m, down from 4.8m in the same month last year.
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Likewise, Barisan Nasional's indigenous parties in Sabah and Sarawak may be tempted to double down on their traditional appeal to historical grievances in the two Bornean states — poverty, marginalization and exploitation by the central government — and harden their calls for greater autonomy and someday perhaps even separatism.
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As the national capital, awash with political gossip, high-tech companies and foreigners, Beijing is a prime location for "foreign espionage and intelligence agencies and other hostile forces who are engaged in infiltration, subversion, separatism, sabotage and stealing secrets," according to an explanation accompanying the new rules.
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Since Malcolm X's assassination by members of the Nation of Islam, there have been battles over the meaning of his life, in particular its tumultuous last year, when he broke with the Nation of Islam, traveled to the Middle East and renounced his philosophy of racial separatism.
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A report broadcast on state television contained footage said to have been shot within one of the many "vocational and educational training centres" that China has built or renovated since 2016, when it began ramping up measures against separatism and religious extremism which it says threaten the region.
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Returning to what looks like a detail of the U.K. election, the very strong performance of the Conservative leader in Scotland, Ruth Davidson, an avowed "(EU) remainer" and opponent of the Scottish National Party suggests that separatism, another form of "anger," may also be on the way out.
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BEIJING — Police officers in western China have investigated a Tibetan language education advocate for interviews he did last year with The New York Times and are pushing for a court trial on a charge of inciting separatism based on his contact with Times journalists, according to his lawyer.
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Facebook told Motherboard it's currently reviewing its policies on white supremacy, white nationalism, and white separatism after a series of meetings with civil rights leaders, reporting by Motherboard on these policies, and a forceful letter from a civil rights group formed under the direction of President John F. Kennedy.
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As Facebook explains in its Newsroom post: … Over the past three months our conversations with members of civil society and academics who are experts in race relations around the world have confirmed that white nationalism and separatism cannot be meaningfully separated from white supremacy and organized hate groups.
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Catalan separatism also brings together some lawmakers who are not affiliated with any of the main parties but instead represent the different migrant communities that have helped transform the Catalan population, including a mass exodus from poorer parts of Spain to Catalonia in the decades after the civil war.
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" The Economist refers to a "populist virus"; The Atlantic, to "demagogic populists"; The Washington Post, to "populism sweeping the Middle East"; The New York Times, to a "Kurdish populist movement" and a Thai "populist movement"; the BBC, to the Catalan national movement as "far less about separatism than populism.
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But he said there was no widespread support for violence in Catalonia and it would be wrong to draw any comparisons between Catalan separatism and ETA, the Basque secessionist group that ended its campaign of violence in 2018 after killing more than 850 people over almost half a century.
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In July, Mr Xi used a trip to Ningxia province, the Hui heartland, to warn Chinese Muslims to resist "illegal religious infiltration activities" and "carry forward the patriotic tradition", a sign that he views this group with suspicion, as well as those on China's fringe with a history of separatism.
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And as longstanding tension within the LGBTQ community between social assimilation and separatism—that is, the debate over whether queer people should try to blend in with the rest of society or reject society outright—continues to churn, the roots and history of queer nationalism seem as relevant as ever.
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In a note to investors this week, Antonio Barroso, an analyst at Teneo Intelligence, a consultancy in London, said that Mr. Rajoy's court appearance would create unwanted headlines but would have little political impact in Spain, in part because the agenda there is now dominated by the issue of Catalan separatism.
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Stop signs across Montreal were painted over by vandals to say "Stop 101," a reference to Bill 101, a law strengthening the French language in Quebec Today, many young Québécois switch effortlessly between French and English, French Canadian rappers perform in English and French; and separatism is largely in retreat.
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Fishman said that users who search for or try to post white nationalism, white separatism, or white supremacist content will begin getting a popup that will redirect to the website for Life After Hate, a nonprofit founded by ex-white supremacists that is dedicated to getting people to leave hate groups.
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Joshua Wong, a student leader who played a prominent role in the Umbrella protests, is also forming a political party with the goal of putting a self-determination referendum for Hong Kong on the city legislature's agenda — a development that would appall China's leaders, for whom any talk of separatism is anathema.
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But she still needs to define what Brexit means in terms of concrete actions to retain British access to Europe's single market, satisfying the anti-globalization and anti-immigration mood of the 17 million Leave voters, managing the economic fallout of the referendum and coping with increased separatism in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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For instance, the Guardian has seen Turkey-specific guidelines in which TikTok explicitly banned a swathe of content related to Kurdish separatism, and adds the country's founding father, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and its president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to the list of political leaders who cannot be criticised, defamed or spoofed on the platform.
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"Under our current hate speech policy, we allow content that promotes nationalism and separatism," the document begins, addressing a major loophole in the platform's enforcement of hate speech, where even promotion of an ethno-state—meaning a defined geographic territory solely populated by a single race or ethnicity—was only considered a "level three" signal.
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Adversaries are peddling nationalism, the end of supranational organizations that impinge national sovereignty, religious extremism, and even separatism from California to Scotland to Okinawa—ideas that challenge the central tenets of the world created after World War II. Trump should respond, in the tradition of Eisenhower and Reagan, and organize his administration for political warfare.
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" But the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is talking specifically about white nationalism and separatism, as do the training slides published by Motherboard, which, as the committee's letter notes, hone in on "specific movements focused on the continued supremacy (politically, socially, and/or economically) of white people over other racial and ethnic groups.
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"What was meant as a short-term measure extended to a point where it affected governance, where it affected development and where it created an atmosphere — you know, because of the lack of development – of separatism in some quarters, which then served as an excuse for Pakistan to practice cross-border terrorism," said Jaishankar.
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Will Smith thinks the Hollywood community needs to lead in a time of regression and separatism in the U.S. The star appeared on the The Graham Norton Show, where he was asked where he stands now on his decision to join wife Jada Pinkett Smith in boycotting the Oscars ceremony because no actors of colour were nominated for awards.
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Facebook makes this distinction because it argues in those documents that white nationalism "doesn't seem to be always associated with racism (at least not explicitly.)" Now, following that reporting, multiple leading civil rights groups and Black history scholars are calling for Facebook to change its stance, saying that separatism and nationalism are a thinly-veiled mask for white supremacy.
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And I don't mean that separatism is now the order of the day: Most Hong Kongers who fight for democracy today would probably say that they simply want the proper implementation of our Basic Law, or mini-Constitution, and the "One Country, Two Systems" principle that is supposed to protect the city's semi-autonomy from the mainland.
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Experts say that white nationalism and white separatism movements are different from other separatist movements such as the Basque separatist movement in France and Spain and Black separatist movements worldwide because of the long history of white supremacism that has been used to subjugate and dehumanize people of color in the United States and around the world.
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The Jane Jacobs publication includes that 1962 discussion with Eve Auchincloss and Nancy Lynch, a 1978 conversation with Roberta Brandes Gratz on "How Westway Will Destroy New York," a 2011 talk with James Howard Kunstler for Metropolis, and the interview that would be her last with Robin Philpot for the 2011 publication The Question of Separatism, a rumination on Quebec's sovereignty.
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"We tried to draw attention for many years to the explosive policies of the USA and the coalition, headed for the collapse of Syria and the creation of quasi-state formations on the eastern bank of the Euphrates, pushing Kurds to separatism and confrontation with Arab tribes," Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday as he addressed heads of security services.
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In the life of Michael Cromartie, an evangelical-Christian impresario dead of cancer last week at 67, you could see a larger generational story in archetype — the story of certain boomer-era evangelicals, heirs to an embattled and often self-segregated subculture, who tried to abandon anti-intellectualism and separatism and to establish a new religious center for a fragmenting and secularizing age.
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These sanctions signal distaste for Russia's sponsorship of separatism in eastern Ukraine, its seizure of Crimea from Ukraine and, most recently, for its assumed responsibility for the poisoning in March of the former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the UK. Italy is now indicating that it wishes to break ranks, and to forge a closer relationship with Russia.
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The carnage in Balochistan can be understood by considering the long history of separatism in the province, the resentment against the federal authorities for denying its people their proper share of resources and opportunities, and the failed strategy of the Pakistani military to use repression and to encourage and use Islamist groups and militants to crush Baloch nationalist rebels and politicians.
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In short, Facebook banned white supremacist content, but allowed white separatist and white nationalist content because it "doesn't seem to be always associated with racism (at least not explicitly.)" The company later argued it couldn't institute a global rule forbidding white nationalism and separatism because it would inadvertently ensnare other, legitimate movements like "black separatist groups, and the Zionist movement, and the Basque movement."
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"It now leaves the ball totally in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's court," said Erdogan could opt to reconcile with opposition parties, said Harris, or - more likely - call a snap election to capitalise on the crisis, gain a majority that would allow him to change the constitution and consolidate his power further, which could bring political clarity but heighten the risk of Kurdish separatism and social instability.
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What Spadaro and Figueroa do not grasp is that the tendencies that they see at work in American Catholicism, the religious votes for the cheerfully pagan Trump and the growing interest in traditionalism, radicalism and separatism, are not the culmination of the Catholic-evangelical alliance but rather a reaction to its political and cultural failures — and the failures of liberal religious politics as well.
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Since Mr. Rajoy's departure from office, the Popular Party has hardened its stance on Catalan separatism, in no small measure because of the rise of Vox, a new far-right party that made a splash in regional elections in Andalusia in December, when it won 12 seats in the Andalusian Parliament on a platform that combined anti-immigrant rhetoric with a hard line on the Catalonia crisis.
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Vital Little Plans puts this sexist caricature to rest by showing the impressive range and depth of Jacobs's work: She published an edited volume on the U.S. Constitution; she reimagined classical economic theory to argue that cities maintain competitiveness; she wrote on Quebecois separatism, as well as Socratic dialogues on moral philosophy; all while raising three children and maintaining a grueling schedule of civic meetings and activist causes.
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