A friend of the blog emails:
I am in no way in favor of banning books or burning books. I am not in favor of censoring something for others. If I do not want to read something, I simply don’t. This tweet really got my thinking about fascism and the Nazis who burned books.
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Is this person tweeting sure that it is the right wing side of the country burning Harry Potter books? Gosh, I am old enough to remember the never ending cancel culture of Liberals going after JK Rowling for questioning the transgender culture and the idea that a man can identify as a woman and be legitimately considered a woman
Harry Potter. Tom Sawyer. Huckleberry Finn. To Kill a Mockingbird. God and Man at Yale. Jordan Peterson.
Here’s the difference: On the right, the people doing the book burnings and the other authoritarian depravity‘s are almost invariably nobodies that you’ve never heard of; school boards in Tennessee, county commissions in rural Louisiana.
On the left, it’s the mainstream and leadership burning the books.
OK, I wasted a way too much time looking this up… first of all, what was mostly burned was pallets. Lots of ’em. And then there were some people who brought items of their own to be burned which included t-shirts, masks, and maybe a book or two. I think that pastor just likes to give his enemies tit twisters and watch ’em hop around in self-righteous agony.
Those two hysterical women in the tweets are overly emotional midwits. If the congregants of that church has properly disposed of those so-called demonic items in their weekly garbage and took pictures of it, would it be a thing?
Who is Ruth Ben-Ghiat? Do you really need to ask?
New York University
Professor of Italian Studies and History
BIO
Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a historian and cultural critic. The recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other fellowships, she’s an expert on fascism, authoritarianism, war, propaganda, and Donald Trump. She writes frequently for the media on those topics and has provided podcast and on-camera political commentary for Sky News, Slate, Salon, KCRW, Democracy Now!, Al-Jazeera, and other outlets.
I aver, it’s probable that Hitler and Pinochet would probably have burned her books and removed her from the University…so would Stalin and Castro. Pol Pot would have shot her and tossed her into a ditch.
Ben seems to have a real problem with masculinity. Doesn’t say , but I’d bet she’s an angry lesbian. Her literary themes revolve around “Strong men”, but oh! The current book banning movement is being led by…women.
And they’re not demanding the books be banned outright, just removed from the easy reach of young children. The books in question range from outright child pR0n to psy-ops against White people; of course the moms want that shit removed, it’s common sense, like locking up your pistols if you have kids in the house.
Yesterday, MP shared a link for an interview with some based, 30 something guys. It was really interesting, so I’m going to re-post it. These are the people that will some day escort the likes of Ben and her ilk to exile. I hope I’m around so I can burn her books.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/podcast-is-there-a-generation-gap-on-the-right-the-based-think-so.php
ps: Pinochet did nothing wrong.
what’s that Berg’s law about projection?
ps: Pinochet did nothing wrong.
Politically, yes, but since you said “nothing” it means you condone torture and summary executions. How quaint.
Politically, yes, but since you said “nothing” it means you condone torture and summary execution of Communists.
Fixed that for you jpa.
Generalissimo Pinochet’s Commie helicopter tours were a stroke of genius. Hell yeah, I’d gladly have served as his loadmaster.
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The American Taliban strikes again. Maybe it wasn’t such a great idea to reduce the number of classes that teach civics, democracy and world history?
Yeah, well, when the degenerates running the schools divvied up the day something had to go, rAT. It was either Cross dressing and Buttseks 101, or world history.
A few parents supported world history, but your side won. Civics got defenestrated years ago to make room for Socialist economics.
Yeah, well, when the degenerates running the schools divvied up the day something had to go, rAT. It was either Cross dressing and Buttseks 101, or world history.
A few parents supported world history, but your side won. Civics got defenestrated years ago to make room for Soci@list economics.
Oh wait….I post a helicopter meme, and you bring up the Taliban. Were you making a wry observation regarding the new hardware Pedo Joe left in Afghanistan, rAT?
… also, Blade, I doubt the little guy realizes, having gone through US educational system and all, that his so-called American Taliban has much more in common with the original founders of this country than he does. And for some 200, 300 years, the country did just fine without him and his sanctimonious, self-righteous bolsheviks.
Twat and jdm: I have been censored for my conservative views
Emery: Holy smokes! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?
Twat and jdm: LOL no…no not those views
Emery: So….deregulation?
Twat and jdm: Haha no not those views either
Emery: Which views, exactly?
Twat and jdm: Oh, you know the ones
In St. Paul, a book-burning recreational fire can be no larger than three feet. I had them all the time. Of course, I was burning ‘natural’ books instead of ‘processed’ books (i.e. firewood), but that’s just a matter of degree. Who knows what masterpieces may have been published if I hadn’t set those logs to flame?
I’m so ashamed.
The banning of the book “Maus” is part of what has been a slow rolling movement over the past four or five years to “clean up” the horrors of the Holocaust and the efforts to rehabilitate Hitler’s image. It is beyond the pale.
When I was in 7th and 8th grade I was shown the WWII films of when the allied forces rolled into Auschwitz and other concentration camps. In those films were very graphic images of nude bodies stacked like cord wood, ditches filled with victims, and the inside of the ovens used to incinerate Jews, and others deemed “lesser”.
Anyone who would seriously believe this book should be kept from children as part of a study of the Holocaust is, in fact, part of the problem. I suspect they have cat-like tendencies.
I think our kids should learn about the holocaust, the holdomore, Pol Pot’s killing fields, Stalin’s purges, the Haitian massacre of 1804, the Rape of Nanking, the Armenian genocide and all the rest.
We should also teach them about the Uyghur genocide (but not until after the Olympics, Nancy Pelosi says we can’t upset the Chinese).
It’s a real nasty world out there.
The bubble in which the Olympic Games are held is a partial metaphor for today’s China.
If I own a book, I am free to burn it? Or have the rules changed?
Maus is a terrible book because it treats ethnicity as destiny. Jews were mice and Germans — not just Nazis, all Germans — were cats.
It is the nature of cats to kill mice, isn’t it?
Like I said, an awful book.
Oh, and the people who started with canceling fringe entertainer Alex Jones are now trying to cancel the most popular blogger in America, and they may succeed. They have nothing worth hearing on the topic of censorship. They have renamed “opinion” to misinformation.
The filthy mob is screaming for Rogan’s blood. Next up, some skanky thot will show up with a “He raped me at a high school keg party”. Believe it.
Not a big deal. Rogan will simply move to Odysee, and carry on. Or if he’s smart, he’ll take some of that Spotify cash and buy his own servers, and create his own channel.
The days when degenerates can ghost someone on the web are over.
Video of Joe Rogan Impersonating Disabled Child Resurfaces Amid Spotify Scandal
Oops, forgot making fun of ‘tards. The thot will have to wait her turn.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/video-of-joe-rogan-impersonating-disabled-child-resurfaces-amid-spotify-scandal/ar-AATxdjP
From Rogan to the Global Vision Bible Church to restricting access to Maus, it’s all of one piece (thanks JD for using this the other day):
it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
People have to stop letting the bolsheviks “call the tune” to make them dance. Focus on what’s important.
It’s pretty laughable that those who are most into censorship accuse their political opponents of what they do themselves as a matter of course.
I think there’s a difference between a church burning books of which they disapprove, and actual moves to prevent the rest of us from reading those books, don’t you think? I can think of Ms. Rowling and the pallet manufacturer crying all the way to the bank from all of the royalties and revenue they’ve gotten from the members of that church for that little stunt.
It’s not quite the same as banning conservatives from social media and trying to prevent publishers from publishing these books, I dare say.
MBerg wrote: “On the right, the people doing the book burnings and the other authoritarian depravity‘s are almost invariably nobodies that you’ve never heard of; school boards in Tennessee, county commissions in rural Louisiana.”
Remember when media outlets covered the Westboro Baptist Church like it was an actual church with actual influence. It was fringe of fringe of fringe. But Greg Locke? He’s Westboro with 2.2 million Facebook followers.
I remember when book burning was deemed “Orwellian” by Republicans.
Burning hardcover books which contain BadThink so people can’t read them and become misinformed.
Banning Twitter/Facebook/Spotify commenters who discuss BadThink so people can’t read them and become misinformed.
Which do you favor, E, and why?
In my wife’s and my Academy for Girls, I made sure Maus was on the reading list. And to be really subversive, the Mark Helprin/Chris Van Allsburg trilogy collaboration was also required: Swan Lake, A City in Winter, and The Veil of Snows
Joe Rogan will be just fine. Don’t worry. He’ll be OK. If you are truly worried about free speech, and that’s a big IF, let me direct you to CRT and book bannings across the country.
rAT, your right to sit your spawn down with a CRT book, in the great room of your palatial Lakefront Estate, and teach them what wastes of flesh they are is not only guaranteed by the Constitution, it’s encouraged by Blade Nzimande.
It’s time for Trump to go on The Joe Rogan Experience and tell everyone about how vaccines are good. Trump’s “we did the vaccines, that’s our accomplishment, don’t let them take it away from you” line needs more airplay.
Once they get done with the formalities — they can talk about banging hot Russian chicks.