“We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice.”

— Noam Chomsky

Source: Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian

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american linguist, philosopher and activist 1928

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