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And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Essay (2004-08-06), “I Love You, Madame Librarian,” In These Times Magazine, Vol. 29, No. 20 (2004-08-30)

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Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. - Essay (2004-08-06), "I Love You, Madame Librarian," In These Times Magazine, Vol. 29, No. 20 (2004-08-30) | WIST Quotations

And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused…

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A quotation from Lemony Snicket

The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding — which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together — blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author ….

Lemony Snicket (b. 1970) American author, screenwriter, musician (pseud. for Daniel Handler)
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12, The Penultimate Peril, ch. 13 (2005)

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The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding — which is the term for…

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PugJesus May 24

Don't join the book burners.

heapinfrimp May 24

censor rabbit
i saw mid 1990s reader rabbit games for the first time recently and this is what came of that

#mastoart #readerrabbit #anthropomorphic #bookburning #fascism #parentrights #rabbit #mouse #lion #cartoonart #thelearningcompany

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Gokul Das May 15

It's frightening that they decide #science & #medical #policies now! We're doomed! They'll start burning science #books soon, take us back to dark ages in no time, and get us all killed to satisfy their #pride and/or #greed.

So I call upon all sane people to collect good quality #STEM #books, seal them tight in capsules and bury them where these ghouls won't look. It might become the #treasure of life for the next-gen, if anyone survives.

#Antivax #ScienceDenial #BookBurning

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MikeDunnAuthor May 10

Today in Labor History May 10, 1933: The Nazis staged massive public book burnings, beginning in Berlin, with students from Humboldt University, destroying thousands of titles. German poet, Heinrich Heine, said back in the early 1800s, "Where one burns books, one will soon burn people." They burned books written by Jewish, half-Jewish, communist, socialist, anarchist, liberal, pacifist, lgbtq and sexologist authors. The first books burned were those of Karl Marx and Karl Kautsky. Many of the books that were burned were seized from the library of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, director of the Institute for Sexual Science (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft), which the Nazis raided in Berlin on May 6, 1933.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #fascism #censorship #BookBurning #HeinrichHeine #poetry #literature #fiction #books #students #homophobia #transphobia #lgbtq #magnushirschfeld #karlmarx #anarchism #socialism #antisemitism @bookstadon

Stephen Gutknecht May 6

#RescueReddit
#FWakeRescue #FakeResistance
#ResistingWhatExactly ??

1. Reddit community #HiveMind believes the fiction story that they are "Resisting MAGA" when they promote #BlockingHumans and #BookBurning to prevent people from reading content.

2. #WhatIsReddit : cult media mob to dehumanize + promote #HateHarder values

Stephen Gutknecht May 6

#RescueBluesky
#FWakeRescue #FakeResistance
#ResistingWhatExactly ??

1. Bluesky community #HiveMind believes the fiction story that they are "Resisting MAGA" when they promote #BlockingHumans and #BookBurning to prevent people from reading content.

2. #WhatIsBluesky : cult media mob to dehumanize + promote #HateHarder values

azteclady May 6

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" --George Santayana (commonly paraphrased as, "those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it)

We have seen what's happening today in the U.S. (and the U.K, and and and) happen before. And we saw where it led.

.We are far too close to being there again. We must end this now.

#OTD #MagnusHirshfeldLibrary #BookBurning #BookBans #History #Fascism