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A comment on Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voices from Wax Cylinders. Parent comment

Re:Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voic... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday October 26, 2017 @11:14AM (#15559565)
Sorry my culture is that those, outside my culture, with smug arguments aren't allowed to respond negatively.

Retract your comment or prove you're wrong by maintaining it.

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Also, are you saying anthropologists would never intefere or contradict a distinct cultures wishes? I know that's not true.

We should let the rich decide who pays taxes too, as they have most experience of it, no.

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Re:Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voic... by eesmith on Thursday October 26, 2017 @01:01PM (#15560785)
Since it wasn't clear, my comment was to point out that anthropologists are likely to have a better idea of what it means to "treat people as people" than you do.
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