Well, there is one duo of books that are banned here in Denmark. My friend’s wife is reading them and I had the same reaction as you when I heard it was banned.
I thought, pch, pearl clutchers.
Then she started reading the forward to me, which contained a list of all the fetishes present in the book. It sounded pretty tame with all the BDSM kinks, then it came to blood play, consensual and none-consensual physical abuse, torture porn, and erotic gore.
i believe that Mein Kampf should be available with the proper contextualization and critiques. putting it out for the public to spread its hate is what its author wanted, but to erase its existence entirely is to eliminate the possibility of learning from the past that these things are possible and real.
Mein Kampf is not the only way that form of racial hate spreads. we have to teach people to recognize it or you make it too easy for someone like Ben Gvir to retool this racial hate to equate anti-semitism and anti-zionism when zionism itself is an anti-semitic strategy of statecraft.
If it’s seated within a text that’s critical of nazi propaganda and makes the necessary context clear, I agree that it should be available. But that’s different from publishing the book under its own title.
Most banned books are because of sexually explicit content.
Any why do you think sexually explicit content should be censored? Is it perhaps because you live in a puritanical society?
Well, there is one duo of books that are banned here in Denmark. My friend’s wife is reading them and I had the same reaction as you when I heard it was banned.
I thought, pch, pearl clutchers.
Then she started reading the forward to me, which contained a list of all the fetishes present in the book. It sounded pretty tame with all the BDSM kinks, then it came to blood play, consensual and none-consensual physical abuse, torture porn, and erotic gore.
Then I understood.
Banning is is still dumb, even if people think it’s weird…
" Here is what’s in this book, make an informed decision on whether or not you will read it."
Vs:
“I think this book is icky, so no one is allowed to read it.”
Do you or do you not believe Mein Kampf should be banned?
i believe that Mein Kampf should be available with the proper contextualization and critiques. putting it out for the public to spread its hate is what its author wanted, but to erase its existence entirely is to eliminate the possibility of learning from the past that these things are possible and real.
Mein Kampf is not the only way that form of racial hate spreads. we have to teach people to recognize it or you make it too easy for someone like Ben Gvir to retool this racial hate to equate anti-semitism and anti-zionism when zionism itself is an anti-semitic strategy of statecraft.
If it’s seated within a text that’s critical of nazi propaganda and makes the necessary context clear, I agree that it should be available. But that’s different from publishing the book under its own title.