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Originally Posted by the_real_Barleycorn
There have been book burnings in the US. Southerners burned Uncle Tom's Cabin, you know, democrats. In the 1930s there was a real Nazi movement that had book burnings. Today they have burned books on campus like Rush Limbaugh, Milo, and Ann Coulter.
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the book, the mad, mad, mad world of climatism was burned by professors on the campus of san jose state university
in a display of solidarity, the university even posted pictures of the burning on its website
and only upon reflection decided even they shouldn't go that far despite their sympathies and took it down
uc berkley students burned daniel j. flynn's book on mumia abul-jamal and shouted him down during his scheduled speech
numerous burnings of the Koran have occurred
one huge aspect, while not exactly book burning, is the required reading lists at universities
I think a study was done concerning our top 50 colleges and universities. of the reading lists studied, not one included any on conservative thought. the lists only contained books with leftist perspectives
so symbolic "burnings" by exclusion occur constantly
it seems not an insurmountable distance from the eradication of historical markers which aren't always of confederate generals, and which can and perhaps should provoke thought and reflection, although most times they are merely interesting history lessons should one be interested at all in even paying mind to statues, and from the shouting down of the speech of others and the speech codes and the idea of micro aggressions and the blind mind control on college campuses to actual burnings
the attacks seem to me a wedge with which to delegitimize further the founders, and therefore the heritage they left us, mainly the constitution
