Re: CHAT: Support/Oppression of Conlanging

>From: "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>
> > Thomas R. Wier:
> > > Speaking of prejudice, does anyone know of any actual political
> > > repression of conlangers besides that of Stalin and Hitler
> > > against Esperantists?)
> >
> > Just why did the abovementioned gentlemen repress Esperantists?
> > No book I've read ever cared to explain that.
>
>In Stalin's case, at least, it had to do with the fact that Esperantists,
>like philatelists, had lots of contact with the outside world.  This,
>naturally, was a Bad Thing, and so off to Sibiria both groups went.
>In Hitler's case, the same probably applies, but the fact that Zamenhof
>was a Jew, and a Zionist at that, probably also colored the decision
>to send them to the death camps.
>
It just makes sense anyway that fascists would have a problem with the
effort to bring different cultural / ethnic groups together, linguistically
or otherwise.

Andy

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