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"Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." - Wherever they burn books, in the end will also burn human beings. Heinrich Heine

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But do they burn books first or do they burn human and also go after their books?

I think it’s usually human first and that that takes until it reaches to the books to be recognized.

What do you say about classic literature being banned from classrooms because people were unable to see the content in the context of the time it was written?

I see it as an order of magnitude less dangerous than censorship at the library level.

This is upside down.

Banning books from school is 10x worse than censorship at the library.

All this library talk is a little moot because nobody goes to the library. How many copies of said 'banned books' do HK libraries even have? 10? 20?

The Internet is the Library.

But the information taught in class will define an entire generation.

Here is an extensive list of frequently challenged and banned books

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks...

Some school libraries appear to be being very active on banning certain books.

Bigoted parents challenging a book in a school library is not comparable to a state using law to intimidate public libraries into removing books.

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