Re: CHAT: Support/Oppression of Conlanging

Quoting Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

> 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.

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