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This is a link post Fahrenheit 451.


Books, churches, what will Canadians burn next?


 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 12 Sep 2021, 19:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post Burning racist books is the same as racists burning books of course

(benito vaselini no not that one, Sun 12 Sep 2021, 19:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post Racists have feelings too.
Obviously millions of books are pulped or burned ever year, but racist ones are especially precious.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sun 12 Sep 2021, 20:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post Has your account been hacked by brb?

(I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 12 Sep 2021, 21:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post lol
Just some light trolling.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sun 12 Sep 2021, 21:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post You’re right. Catholics burning books is good.

(I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 12 Sep 2021, 20:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post When books are burned...
...it is usually on the pretext that the contents are dangerous.
The way to ensure that ideas, thoughts, opinions aren’t destroyed by those who want to silence them isn’t to say “we’ll only burn bad books”, it’s by saying “burning books is never a thing to be celebrated”

Critique a racist book. Analyse it, annotate it, say something insightful about its content. It’s bizarre that people don’t grasp this
 (clinteastwoodbradfield, Mon 13 Sep 2021, 8:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post I think people get it
Eliminating history or texts usually occurs when you want to replace it with a new narrative that suits your cause. It's never for good reasons.
 (plankton, Mon 13 Sep 2021, 11:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post Perhaps they've already tried writing a sternly worded letter

(benito vaselini no not that one, Mon 13 Sep 2021, 16:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post Would it be a decent compromise to include a content warning?
- like they do for old films with dodgier content than we'd comfortably tolerate these days?

On a related note, isn't it curious that we have widespread state film censorship, but it's far less common to see literary censorship.
 (I helped save b3ta! Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Mon 13 Sep 2021, 19:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post Tell that to Kate Clanchy.

(I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 13 Sep 2021, 19:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's disappointing that she gave in to all the pearl clutching in the end.
I suspect that the vast majority of folk denouncing her for her 'racist' and 'ableist' overtones likely had no intention of reading her book in the first place.
People make a hobby of finding things to get morally outraged by these days. Instead of bowing to their demands of inoffensive vaguery, why not grow a fucking backbone and tell them to shit off, instead?
 (Tony Hayers DEFUND THE POLICE, Mon 13 Sep 2021, 22:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post Wasn't she responding to public criticism rather than being censored by a state body, though?
It's not like she was legally obliged to make cuts or anything.
 (I helped save b3ta! Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Tue 14 Sep 2021, 6:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post CHEVRON!

(I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger (1 like), Sun 12 Sep 2021, 22:46, , Reply)
This is a normal post You utter BASTARDS

(I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger (1 like), Mon 13 Sep 2021, 10:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post if we ignore this the providence school board will soon be forming einsatzgruppen and forcing untermensch into mass graves in the forests of southwest ontario
this is how it starts, people
 (I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 13 Sep 2021, 0:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post You say that, but since Brexit there has been an absolutely colossal rise in far right terrorism.

(I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 13 Sep 2021, 2:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post in canada?
they must have taken brexit to heart
 (I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 13 Sep 2021, 23:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post The article Godwins itself
comparing native Americans and insane anti-child abuse arsonists(!) to Nazis because FEAR THE LEFT.

Ignore the actual Nazis storming the US capital, murdering anti-Nazi protesters, and murdering pro-EU MPs, Canadians are burning racist schoolbooks! They'll be coming for our Golliwogs next!
 (I helped save b3ta! brb homonecrobatrachophile, Mon 13 Sep 2021, 16:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post Its not necessary to ignore nazi’s
to be able to criticise burning of any books. The objection to book burning isn’t simply “nazis did this, therefore anyone doing it is a nazi”; the point is that burning books is an authoritarian act whereby a person or group decides for everyone else what ideas they are not allowed to be exposed to. The purpose is to rid the world of the content contained within. So if it succeeded in ridding the world of the content within, if I said “what did those books actually say?”, I’d by definition have to take it on trust as to what was actually said, deferring to those who didn’t want me to know what was actually said, rather than working out for myself whether it was abhorrent.
 (clinteastwoodbradfield, Tue 14 Sep 2021, 9:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post I just think it's cute that they think it's 90 year old tintins that turn kids racist, rather than their parents
wouldnt have been a fuss if they'd just binned them, just some tone-deaf attempt to win some virtue signalling brownie points. Or are brownie points racist? And without irony the "pc gone mad" sites are the first to get outraged by the trangressive symbolism
 (I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 14 Sep 2021, 12:39, , Reply)