I am still trying to decide what I think about things like this. On one hand they aren't outright saying that the books should be banned so it's not necessarily blatant hypocrisy. On the other hand "they don't meet our qualifications as banned books" is. They are banned all over the place. Someone else decided other people can't read them.
It is not "self-evident" that any book anywhere should literally be prevented from being available. If you think that you are a book banner, so make your advocacy about something else than free inquiry and freedom because you do not believe in those things.
@sun its a typical hamsterwheel for neoliberals to proclaim they support something only to cope how thing they don't like doesn't "count."
you've seen this with the dissolution of the US constitution (inventing 'protected speech' as literally 'its not speech'), Europe calls everything they don't like human rights abuse, etc.
@sun if it's about things like mein kampf, I think people really should read it just so that they have to deal with the horror that is hitler's prose style and be inoculated that way
@sim@sun Much worse. Marx is dense but Hitler is actually insufferable as a prose writer. Literally some of the most inane and eyes-glazing-over rambling you'll ever read in your life. Actually, a lot of Nazi literature is like this, they had a serious dearth of good writers and it shows.
@allison@sun But that seems to be academia in general. I've read passages from other communist writers, and the rambling was insane. You probably have to pretend that you know and understand the terms and what is being said so that other people in the circle accept you. So it doesn't surprise me that Nazi literature has a similar problem.
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