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maybe they're trying to win an Israeli peace prize

this is no conflict, Israel has been committing genocide since the Nakba

westerners who become campists

probably because they're gullible

i think the real debate should be whether cis people should be allowed in sports. it makes my children uncomfortable to see them pushing their lifestyle down their throats

reminds me of Garak from DS9. telling the truth and lying at the same time every time

I think it's impossible to have truly private conversations not just with therapists but with any kind of legally mandated reporter. at the end of the day, they'll always choose self preservation over losing their career just because the state is trying to disappear one of their patients. they can either hand your medical file over or lose their licence.

I'm sure a very small minority are willing to risk their licence by falsifying records (see partisan therapists during the Holocaust), but most of them aren't brave enough.

yes a lot of cultures went extinct but not because they didn't have writing. it's because there was no one left to pass on the knowledge.

if we think about it from the perspective of contemporary indigenous people, they know how to read and write English but that's a side effect of boarding schools. and it's led to more intensive cultural extinction because of forced assimilation.

tldr: some tribes had writing before Columbus, some didn't. cultural genocide is effective in both oral and written traditions

so all those genocides weren't enough, you want a repeat with you at the helm?

there's no evidence or even claim of there having been any kind of writing or system for making information durable

sigh it's called oral history and it was working just fine before the settlers showed up

You are not very good at hiding your racism

American chauvinism at its best