“I just listened to this amazing interview. I had heard a little about this situation but it was mostly static compared to other issues until now. The thing that struck me is that you likened this to the Holocaust and Tibet but really it’s an almost identical strategy (without the 21st century’s face recognition technology) out of the horrific playbook of the Indian Boarding Schools in the US and Canada. Children were forced... even snatched and taken to these schools where their hair was cut and they were beaten or worse if they spoke their native tongue. Most Native American tribes today have greatly reduced use of their language or they have completely lost their native tongue. The terrible irony is that part of the reason we beat the Japanese in WWII was because of the Native American (Navaho) Code Talkers... so a language the government tried to eliminate proven critical in winning a war!!! This is a classic example of why diversity within a population is critical to survival. Thank you for this excellent interview.”
loonladymt via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/08/20