Juno News - June 04, 2019


Are we at risk of losing the lessons of the 20th century？

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On the anniversary of two major 20th century events, D-Day and Tiananmen Square, we need to ask, are we at risk of losing the lessons of the 20th Century? Are we forgetting them? Every new generation needs to be told these stories and needs to learn these lessons. But to what degree are we slipping behind?

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00:00:00.000 We've got the anniversary of two major 20th century events coming up, D-Day and Tiananmen
00:00:17.080 Square, and I think we need to ask, are we at risk of losing the lessons of the 20th
00:00:22.440 century? Are we forgetting them? Every new generation, so the saying goes, needs to be 1.00
00:00:28.480 told these stories and needs to be learned these lessons. But to what degree are we slipping
00:00:33.100 behind? In the past year or so, there's been a number of media reports and stories and
00:00:37.500 conversations about statistics on Holocaust information, to what degree people are educated
00:00:43.600 on the Holocaust, and reports that made their way all up to the New York Times found that 0.87
00:00:47.880 Canadians, and particularly Canadian millennials, are quite ignorant about a whole lot of the 0.99
00:00:53.260 Holocaust. And something like 75% of Canadians can't name a single concentration camp, even 0.97
00:00:59.320 though Auschwitz is something that one would have thought was well known, that anybody could
00:01:03.880 summon that phrase, many movies, many books, that it had been a wide part of popular culture.
00:01:08.860 But I guess this day and age, with new young people coming into the fore, coming into adulthood,
00:01:14.320 if they're not being learned it robustly in school, they're just not learning it at all.
00:01:18.600 So we're looking at the 75th anniversary of D-Day this week, and the 30th anniversary of the
00:01:24.660 massacre at Tiananmen Square. Two very similar but very different lessons, of course. The D-Day one 0.84
00:01:31.260 about fighting the Nazis, about fighting that totalitarian regime, and why a lot of Canadians,
00:01:38.040 a lot of our ancestors, put their lives on the line, many dying for our freedoms and our liberty.
00:01:43.380 Something we forget, when we're so readily able to give up the fight this day and age, to say,
00:01:48.500 ah, who cares? We don't have to worry about fighting for this freedom, or that freedom.
00:01:53.760 And fewer and fewer Canadians remain who fought in World War II. I mean, anyone who's been going to
00:02:00.240 Remembrance Day for many years, you still respect it, you still honor it, but you kind of get used to it.
00:02:06.020 But perhaps what you don't realize is that there are fewer people who are physically present
00:02:10.420 at those services who were back there back in the day. And as their numbers recede,
00:02:16.260 does our memory of it recede? Did the number of people who appreciate the importance of the event,
00:02:21.120 does that diminish? Now, Tiananmen Square is much closer to us, of course, than World War II was just
00:02:27.300 in 1989. But there's already a lot of fascinating stuff to read out there right now about how the
00:02:32.120 communists in Beijing, not just censoring conversation about Tiananmen Square back then when it happened,
00:02:37.720 but censoring it now. One popular musician, a pop rock star in China, who isn't really all that
00:02:44.640 political, had a couple songs come out that alluded to Tiananmen Square. His tours have now been
00:02:50.020 cancelled, his social media has gone dead, and he has vanished. They are disappearing people for fear
00:02:56.600 that they are going to talk about Tiananmen Square. So this all shows us it's an urgent matter,
00:03:02.440 it's a pressing matter, and it's a very real matter. Because if we let these stories slip away from our
00:03:08.260 fingers, if we let these stories just disappear, if we let China clamp down on the fact that Tiananmen
00:03:14.980 Square massacre was a real thing, it happened, and there was a time when people in China were putting
00:03:20.500 their lives on the line for democracy and freedom, well, if we let that happen, then we have failed to
00:03:27.280 learn the lessons. The lessons that people decades ago died for.