“We Bury the Ashes of Racism, Discrimination and Stereotypes”: Canadian Schools Hold Book Burning Demonstration to be a More “Inclusive Country”

JONATHAN TURLEY.com ^ | 9-11-2021 | JONATHAN TURLEY

[wjcsux]

Josef Goebbels would be proud.

[ALASKA]

wut?

[The_Media_never_lie]

Truth squad.

[Mark17]

I wish I had been there with a loudspeaker and a recording of the Horst Wessel hymn.

And you would probably be welcomed. Here is something I heard about the Nazi book burning, though I am not sure if it’s true. They burned many scientific books, that would have been useful, for the German nuclear weapons program.

[Angelino97]

Ironically, this time the book burners first came for the Nazis.

The first legal books (i.e., no copyright infringement or other legal problems) to be banned by Amazon were Holocaust denial books, at the behest of the World Jewish Congress.

That was in 2017, when Amazon first began banning books.

In their press release, the WJC thanks Amazon for finally listening to them (they had been pressuring Amazon since 2013), and says they have a list of other books that still need to be removed:

WJC press release.

History is full of ironies.

Amazon's initial promise in the 1990s was to list every book ever published. Libraries even began to use Amazon, rather than the ISBN, to search for titles.

Of course, after Amazon set a precedent by caving to the WJC's demands, Amazon began to cave to everyone (on the left). Book banning became the new rule.

Being delisted by Amazon is far more powerful censorship than someone buying a few copies to burn. If a book's not on Amazon, in a sense it doesn't exist. It's like "unpersoning" a book.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Had they measured the temperature of the books the instant at which the pages started to burn, they would have recorded a temperature of 451 degrees Fahrenheit.

[Fiji Hill]

What were some of the titles I’d like to read them.

[thecodont]

Being delisted by Amazon is far more powerful censorship than someone buying a few copies to burn. If a book's not on Amazon, in a sense it doesn't exist. It's like "unpersoning" a book.

There's always Books In Print. It used to be carried (hard copy) by bookstores as a reference tool, and clerks would use it when someone wanted to special order something. Now it's a database.

https://www.bowker.com/en/products-services/books-in-print/

[reg45]

First they burn books, then they burn people.

[GOPJ]

The notion of teachers burning books is almost as bizarre as the thought of book sellers embracing blacklisting but both are now part of the realities of our age of rage.

Bradbury placed the story in 2049...

[Celtic Conservative]

I have read that as well. Additionally, some of the foremost scientists in the Manhattan project were German jews who fled the country when the nazis came to power.

CC

[Deepeasttx]

The Nazi’s were book burners.

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Yes. And a Jew predicted that when they burn books, they’ll end up burning bodies!

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

And here I was, all this time, thinking that Baby Trudeau was a commie like his parents. My bad!

[PCPOET7]

what is truly scary is that if you take the action of book burning and remove the narrative that they are using as an excuse for burning books tell them that we are burning books written by a perceived to be persecuted minority or a gay person they would start yelling how evil the action was.

[leaning conservative]

Appalling.

[servo1969]

Serious question: Has there been a time in history when the book burners ended up being the good guys?

[Gay State Conservative]

Jonathan Turley...a leftist with at least some sense of decency. You don't see much of that today.

[Moltke]

They burned many scientific books, that would have been useful, for the German nuclear weapons program.

Highly unlikely. The top scientists working on the nuke program didn't need textbooks. All the advanced knowledge was available from other sources.