What I find absurd is the author takes the stance that banning books is wrong, but not so subtly hints that so called “racist” books should be banned.
I find this contradictory.
I find this contradictory.
Setting aside questions about the morality of banning books, why is "racist" in scare quotes here? The only two books I saw the author explicitly note as being unbanned were Mein Kampf and the Turner Diaries. Are you suggesting that these works are falsely maligned and not truly racist?
Like the book, to kill a mockingbird for example being recently banned in many school districts.
What I don’t like is lists of books we accept as bad without reading them ourselves.
From Mein Kampf:
> The Jews were responsible for bringing Negroes into the Rhineland, with the ultimate idea of bastardizing the white race which they hate and thus lowering its cultural and political level so that the Jew might dominate. For as long as a people remain racially pure and are conscious of the treasure of their blood, they can never be overcome by the Jew. Never in this world can the Jew become master of any people except a bastardized people.
From the Turner Diaries, in an extended passage describing the author's extermination fantasy, much of which is too grotesque to even share:
> There are many thousands of hanging female corpses like that in this city tonight, all wearing identical placards around their necks. They are the White women who were married to or living with Blacks, with Jews, or with other non-White males. There are also a number of men wearing the I-defiled-my-race placard, but the women easily outnumber them seven or eight to one. On the other hand, about ninety per cent of the corpses with the I-betrayed-my-race placards are men, and overall the sexes seem to be roughly balanced.
I'm not for banning any books, but if books are banned when they "Advocates/encourages violence, hatred, group disruption, racial animus and not merely describes the same" the Turner Diaries should one of the first to go.