I couldn't come up with an answer, can you?

[RAB910]

[Croney]

1. Seems half the people of Florida think that time is now.

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. May seem like it, but it's not.

This is absolutely tyranny by the minority here. The vast majority of book challenges are coming from the same few people. I can't remember which county (SE), but one that went overwhelmingly for Trump has started pushing back on the GOP for book banning.

[malaise]

2. Indeed

Rec 😀

[EYESORE 9001]

3. A fascist regime is such a fragile construct

Their paranoia compels public purification displays like book-burnings to demonstrate supremacy. Seems quite insecure to me. Book-burnings are a sign of profound weakness.

[paleotn]

4. Yep. Totalitarian regimes of all stripes must control the truth or their "magic" fades

The first step is banning books deemed "inappropriate." Relatively easy since many people don't read. But it does make the next steps a bit easier... banning speech deemed "inappropriate." Next comes banning thought deemed inappropriate.

If you think that could never happen here, just look at the Weimar Republic. The land of Goethe and Beethoven.

[ret5hd]

14. "Don't worry, be happy." - Winston Smith

Oh wait...that's not right.

[Jrose]

5. I believe book banning ...

Is an early symptom of full-scale fascism.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. That's a winner. I like the rainbow effect too. . . . nt

[niyad]

8. Thinking. . .thinking. . .uhhhhh. . .nope. got nothing.

[dalton99a]

9. Kick

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. The post-war government of Bavaria banned Mein Kampf while it held the copyright

which was up to 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf#2016_critical_edition

[allegorical oracle]

21. Would DeSatan, if asked, say he would ban Mein Kampf from school libraries? Or is his book banning

fervor limited to just gender and sexual activity?

[czarjak]

11. When evil is considered good, it becomes a matter of perspective?

[Shermann]

12. Or the good guys wanting to come down extra hard on immigrants from a particular region nt

[Jack the Greater]

13. The answer depends on your definition of "good guys".

Many people consider those who banned and burned books in the past to be "good guys".

[Warpy]

15. The bad guys always think they're the good guys

and they screech "for the children!" while they're trying to control what other grownups can read, say, and do.

History always sorts this out very nicely and affixes the proper labels to them. Unfortunately, that takes time. We need to fight them off right now.

[Martin68]

16. Well, there have been dangerous books published, such as the Protocols of Zion, a hoax

about Jewish world domination that was a written to stir up anti-semitic sentiment. That's a book that I'd ban from school libraries.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

17. Yes, and the "Turner Diaries" as another example.

[johnnyfins]

18. Understandable

But that is the hidden beauty of freedom of speech. IT EXPOSES ASSHOLES AND RIDICULOUSNESS. All book banning(or any censorship for that matter) is based on ignorance and fear. In a free society, we have to take the bad as well as the good. Otherwise, how do parents teach their children right from wrong?

[Tribetime]

19. Exactly 100%

[calimary]

20. It's so counterproductive.

Banning books tends to make you want to read ‘em.

[Kaleva]

22. Mein Kampf in Germany post WWIi

It wasn't until 2016 when the book was allowed to be published in that nation.