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To: Bryanw92

The koran isn’t going anywhere as it is everywhere.
BUT burning books is a very bad habit to get in to if you read your history.
Seems it gets out of hand one way or another.
And I don’t care to be told how to think one way or the other by anyone about anything.


32 posted on 04/29/2012 2:35:30 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Hey Mitt, F-you too pal)
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To: Joe Boucher

>>BUT burning books is a very bad habit to get in to if you read your history.

Historically,”book burnings” are conducted by taking all the books that offend those in power and burning them in a big pile. This was in a day when books were precious resources (before paperbacks and digital copies), so it really was possible to eradicate something from your culture by just burning some books. Today, a book burning (especially just burning a few) is a symbolic gesture at best and a pathetic tantrum at worst, similar to a flag burning.

In a nation like the US, it would be virtually impossible to burn enough books to remove anything from the culture. It is much easier to just declare a book racist, sexist, homophobic, etc and make it “unacceptable” for public reading or discussion (e.g. Huckleberry Finn, The Turner Diaries).


34 posted on 04/29/2012 3:09:24 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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