Liangshaoyikuan

Liangshaoyikuan (Chinese: 兩少一寬), literally "two fewers, one leniency", was a Chinese government policy of giving leniency in charges and sentences with regard to minorities as compared to Han for the same criminal offenses. The policy was enacted in 1984 by Peng Zhen and Hu Yaobang. On July 9, 2010, a statement jointly published by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, State Ethnic Affairs Commission, and United Front Work Department suggested that "everyone should be equal before the law, and criminals should be punished regardless of their ethnicity". However, they do not have the legal authority to challenge a policy implemented by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, a higher authority; the policy has thus never been officially repealed.

Background

In November 1931, the policy of the treatment toward ethnic minorities by the Communist Party of China was formulated in Ruijin, Jiangxi Province, then capital of the Chinese Soviet Republic. On September 29, 1949, with communist control over most of China, the formal policy toward ethnic minorities for the future People's Republic of China was formulated. Over time, the policy was believed to be the source of tensions between the Han majority and ethnic minorities, as well as cover for ethnic minority separatists. At the time of its abolition, the policy was heavily opposed by prominent members of the ethnic minorities, who believed it encouraged criminal activity among young members of ethnic minority groups.[1][2][3][4]

Impact
Main article: Affirmative action in China

The policy is controversial in the sense of promoting social inequality.[5]

gollark: Well, yes, but it blocks BlahOS.
gollark: ```lua-- Ensure code does not contain evil/unsafe things, such as known browsers, bad OSes or Siri. For further information on what to do if Siri is detected please consult https://pastebin.com/RM13UGFa line 2 and/or the documentation for PS#ABB85797 in this file.function potatOS.check_safe(code) local lcode = strip_comments(string.lower(code)) for category, list in pairs(banned) do for _, thing in pairs(list) do if string.find(lcode, '[^"]' .. string.lower(thing)) then --local ok, err = pcall(potatOS.make_paste, ("potatOS_code_sample_%x"):format(0, 2^24), code) --local sample = "[error]" --if ok then sample = "https://pastebin.com/" .. err end local text = string.format([[This program contains "%s" and will not be run.Classified as: %s.%sIf you believe this to be in error, please contact the potatOS developers.This incident has been reported.]], thing, category, category_descriptions[category]) potatOS.report_incident(string.format("use of banned program classified %s (contains %s).", category, thing), {"safety_checker"}, { code = code, extra_meta = { program_category = category, program_contains = thing, program_category_description = category_descriptions[category] } }) return false, function() printError(text) end end end end return trueend```
gollark: There's a bit of code in `load` which checks user code for stuff which looks like known virii/bad OSes.
gollark: I may need to improve the potatOS antivirus.
gollark: I've not *heard* of one.

References
  1. "专访在京维吾尔同胞：我是中国人". 环球网. Retrieved 2014-03-21.
  2. "朱维群谈新疆暴恐：处理暴恐事件要从民族宗教问题中脱敏". 观察者网. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
  3. "外媒："两少一宽"政策副作用明显 应予以纠正限制". 大公网. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
  4. 张济民 (1991). "对少数民族中的犯罪分子必须实行"两少一宽"政策". 《青海民族学院学报社会科学版》 (01期).
  5. "外媒："两少一宽"政策副作用明显 应予以纠正限制". 大公网. Retrieved 2014-12-03.

See also
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