re: "Govt jab management fails to hit home" (BP, June 14, 2021)
Dear editor,
Since his seeming endorsement of it from May 22, 2014 on, perhaps the Bangkok Post's Veera Prateepchaikul has now reached a maturity that will allow him to learn an overdue lesson from history: when you support dictatorship over democracy you get dictatorial values over democratic values.
It does, however, remain a mystery how that lesson, taught by coup after coup, decade after decade, in Thailand's modern history since 1932 should not have been already well known on May 22, 2014. Could official Thai history curricula as indoctrinated in schools and propagated by permitted texts by properly loyal academics impart so flawed an understanding?
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on June 16, 2021, under the title "Lessons from history" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2133171/lessons-from-history
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