Automatic_Struggle t1_ja0lbzw wrote on February 25, 2023 at 11:09 PM

Reply to comment by mkautzm in TIL that there are more than 160 endangered languages in the United States alone. In addition to many Native American languages, Cajun French, Eastern Yiddish, and Martha's Vineyard, Hawaii, and Plains Sign Language are all endangered. by afeeney

>I'm suggesting that the conversation is heavily nuanced, and that there is a balance of harms here that must be considered.

People had to fight to preserve their language because someone said it's not worth preserving or why waste tax dollars on teaching a dying language that no one speaks when we could use it to teach something else.

There's no balance of harm to be considered when some countries like the US did it to wipe out cultures and their religion as a form of genocide. Some countries are still doing this because they view their language and cultural traditions as the only proper way of doing things.