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Some other sources:

There is more information in the a "Stanford Daily" article:

https://stanforddaily.com/2023/01/22/protected-identity-harm...

And an opinion article in the "Standford Review":

https://stanfordreview.org/nazis-banned-books-we-shouldnt/

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The Stanford Review article claims that the photo of the student reading that particular book may have been staged, as a "joke". If so, it does not seem surprising that such a stunt may potentially fall foul of Stanford's policies about protecting minority groups from harm or intimidation. There might not be an actual "book burning" concern of any sort here.

And it's also entirely possible that the staged reading was, in fact, just a joke between friends at the ridiculousness of the Nazis that was massively overreacted to by an uninvolved party and that the university will end the investigation it's been asked to undertake by getting the participants to shake hands, move on with their lives and maybe think before acting next time.

It's odd to watch what is a fairly consistent pattern of Americans being more concerned about the free speech implications of students being students than a likely next presidential nominee banning entire university courses and introducing the felony offence of having unvetted books in school classrooms as part of his culture war against "wokeness" though...

But to GP's point, that appears to be the only news about the event:

https://news.google.com/search?q=mein%20kampf%20stanford

It seems like this really is a molehill.

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