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>- The Camp of the Saints
>- Culture of Critique
>- The Turner Diaries
Actual banned books. So of course your comment is flagged. Groupthink censorship is still censorship.
Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
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> Note that I don't necessarily agree with the subject matter of these titles Y'know, there's really only one reason to be coy about whether you agree with Neo-Nazi propaganda.
>Y'know, there's really only one reason to be coy about whether you agree with Neo-Nazi propaganda.
Straight to the ad hominem attack on taboo thoughts. Transparent. If the books are true what is your problem with them? Not me. Not the other poster. Not a strawman fallacy. What is your issue with the content of actually banned books? Be specific.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
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> The Bolsheviks certainly were good at it, yet we don't learn about the 23+ million they massacred in US schools. Those of us who paid attention certainly did.
Less than 8% of the English speaking world has heard of the Bolsheviks' genocide. And we know that's not an accident because Mossad's Robert Maxwell owned the dominant textbook publishing company in America for years.
If that simple, easily checkable fact doesn't get your hackles up I would know why that it doesn't.
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the US federal government historically banned books under the Comstock Act of 1873 which is still on the books and is still active federal law. it only currently isn't being enforced following some cultural changes in the 1960s. another change in the cultural winds could bring it back unfortunately
don't you have lots of those dormant old timey laws that would be promptly invalidated as unconstitutional if an attempt to enforce them was made these days, like sodomy laws were?
the Comstock act was unconstitutional at the time that it was actually enforced. i don't want to get into politics but there are many dynamic factors at work here
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do you respect throwing acid into the uncovered face of a woman in a Taliban country? I hope not. And that would mean that you also do have cut-off on what cultures and laws to respect and which to not.
This is the paradox of tolerance. There are a few suggested "resolutions", the most common being "tolerate everything except intolerance".
With “intolerance”, of course, being defined however the person advocating for this resolution pleases, making the outcome indistinguishable from any other form of authoritarianism.
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Thank you for pointing this out. That list of “banned books” (that were unbanned long ago, and are now considered great literature) indeed seems more like virtue signaling. There are equivalent books in our own time, and using those instead would make the project feel more like an actual defense of Free Speech and less like a quip of “goodness gracious, people were prudes in the 1920s”, which everyone already agrees…
You're advocating for including white supremacist and Nazi books. And you're not the only one in this thread doing it. There is one reason someone would do that. You're a white supremacist and a Nazi. There's no in-between here. How about you fuck right off with all that? No tolerance for Nazis and racists.
Are there black, Asian, jewish supremacist, or zionist books that are banned? If so, which ones?
>There is one reason someone would do that. You're a white supremacist and a Nazi. There's no in-between here. How about you fuck right off with all that? No tolerance for Nazis and racists.
And good faith is straight out the window. Are you afraid because non-banned books and films told you they were bad, or because the people who produced those were afraid they were right and didn't want you to know that they were right?
You're advocating censorship. The good guys have not once in history ever needed to do that.
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I started reading the Camp of the Saints precisely because people said I shouldn’t. It was a bad book, I couldn’t read more than a few chapters. But I think adults should be able to read whatever they want.
The Wikipedia page doesn't say anything about this book being "banned" or "censored"...
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It's good to see someone in the internet respect my countries discission to ban books related to feminism, atheism, one which talks about the rape in madrasha and many other which are shadowbanned.
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I started reading the Camp of the Saints precisely because people said I shouldn’t. It was a bad book, I couldn’t read more than a few chapters. But I think adults should be able to read whatever they want.
You are free to read whatever you want. Doesn't mean it should be part of a curated collection in a light bulb
The 'curated collection in a light bulb' in your strawman fallacy contains books you could find prominently displayed in every mainstream bookstore's entranceway. Hardly banned by any reasonable definition. Pilpul not withstanding.
The opposite of 'banned books' making it false advertising.
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We've banned this account for repeatedly posting ideological flamebait with a consistent flavor over several years. HN is for curious conversation, not this.