“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury
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Here’s the thing. Unless they’re burning one of the only surviving copies of some historically significant volume then it doesn’t really matter if they’re literally burning books or not. What matters is the symbolism behind the burning; it’s an act of intimidation through implied violence against “wrong-thinking” people.
When the Klan burns a cross we don’t get upset at the loss of the lumber. We get upset at what the ritual signifies.
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It’s my hope that those of us who did learn from history will burn the fascists before they get a chance this time. I’m not suggesting that their burning books brings us to where “kill them before they kill us” is justified yet, but it’s sure another step closer. Hopefully they can still be undermined peacefully to the point where their power crumbles, but if that turns out not to be the case, I sure hope we’re not waiting until the concentration camps are built before taking the fight to them.
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But they’re going to burn books about transgender, and the Nazis never did that. Oh, wait
I am not going to stop pointing this out, because we are too close to the moral event horizon again.
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Just the next step in the cancellation.
Most of them did. “Hey, the economy is better” and “We’re just being patriotic” and “everyone is joining the brown shirts, c’mon!” was a start… and then a few years later it’s death camps and too late.
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I’ve considered starting a library afficionado page that just connects photos of the best libraries to their map locations.
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