We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genoci…

Noam Chomsky
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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. ✨ David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky (2001). Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky, p.194, Pluto Press
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