MCDOMMMFeb 23, 2023
Eugene McParland 🇺🇦

russian invaders are trashing books from the library of the Pryazovskyi State Technical #University in the temporarily occupied Mariupol

“The occupiers are throwing away books from the library collections of Priazovskyi State University. Then they will be disposed of. Just like the Nazis did during the German occupation of the city during World War II. - #Mariupol City Council informed on Telegram.

Source🔗 https://www.weareukraine.info/russians-trash-books-from-mariupol-universitys-library-funds/

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

Russians trash books from Mariupol University’s library funds

Mariupol City Council informed on Telegram.

We Are Ukraine
Feb 19, 2023 at 12:28pmWeb
Show threadJohn GordonFeb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland @futurebird DeSantis applauds.
Show threadPatrick McLaughlinFeb 19, 2023

@EugeneMcParland

Like Florida.

Show threadAlan RewFeb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland This is to eradicate the Ukrainian language?
Show threadKim PossibleFeb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland No successful civilization trashes books. It's why book banning and destruction are not a good sign for the U.S.
Show threadviolet mazeFeb 19, 2023
@kimlockhartga Meanwhile in the UK we're having some of our books rewritten 😲 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/18/roald-dahl-books-rewritten-to-remove-language-deemed-offensive
Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive

Augustus Gloop now ‘enormous’ instead of ‘fat’, Mrs Twit no longer ‘ugly’ and Oompa Loompas are gender neutral

The Guardian
Show threadmiraculous enbybugFeb 19, 2023
@violetmaze @kimlockhartga Are you really comparing destroying hundreds or thousand of books to eradicate a culture, to changing a few bits of book published 60 years ago to avoid sexist language or similar
Show threadDoreen32128 ready to rumble!Feb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland This picture hurts my heart! Fahrenheit 451 comes to mind. This is a tragedy!
Show threadMurray StaufferFeb 19, 2023

@Doreen32128 @EugeneMcParland

#1984

Show threadMoving PicturesFeb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland Russia, Republicans, Canadian Conservatives - all doing the same thing.
Show threadMurray StaufferFeb 19, 2023

@EugeneMcParland

Not dissimilar to some Governors in United States. #arkansas, #florida

Show threadMadelineFeb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland And here we ban them.
Show threadDwntwnTFeb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland
Ukraine will replenish them when they take Mariupol back.
Show threadWinter StoatFeb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland I'm here to be away from the arrogance of the bird app... instead of taking user input seriously for improvement, they just think, why are you complaining about it while using it? As if they prefer people leave than mention or address issues. They claim the stingy changes to authentication are to address bots instead of a money grab, but the bots are still running rampant as ever, unaddressed even despite reporting them.
Show threadgavinisdie Feb 19, 2023
@snowstoat @EugeneMcParland I always thought these thot bots were super weird, alpt of them seemed to have no purpose
Show threadWinter StoatFeb 19, 2023
@gavinisdie @EugeneMcParland I think they are sleeper honeypots tbh. Some "independent news" mills also employed a similar strategy, publishing seemingly benign content under the radar until they switched footing came out of the woodwork pumping out propaganda.
Show threadHerefordrobFeb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland Can we stop deconstructing war it destroys any kind of security. We need to control war, then we can tackle climate crisis, poverty of all kinds, human rights, #equality, the need for #Justice & global governance, etc We can't while planetary resources are being squandered.
What's the source of this global anarchy? #Sovereignty
Show threadHerefordrobFeb 20, 2023
@EugeneMcParland & uneccessary hierarchy (all of it?) we need partnership working.
Show threadSnowballFeb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland Florida welcomes them.
Show threadMario BenfieldFeb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland Outrageous!
Show threadMichael ☕️Feb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland
Barbaric
Show threadDouglas Phillips BooksFeb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland in all of human history, book burners have never been the good guys.
Show threadBadgerclopsFeb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland This is what American Republicans are doing to public libraries right now. **Especially** DeSantis.
Show threadOregon Wine WomanFeb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland
ba***rds!
Show threadCharlie B. BarkinFeb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland Where do the russians think they are? Florida?
Show threadlocalzukFeb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland yet more proof that the goal is eradication off all things Ukrainian.
Show threadPampaFeb 19, 2023

@EugeneMcParland

#SlavaUkraine

Show threadgavinisdie Feb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland wouldn't be suprised if Russia sees the Ukrainians as the nazis say the poles, a group that to them was meant to be slaves that did not deserves rights, including access to information
Show threadapemantusFeb 19, 2023
@gavinisdie @EugeneMcParland Russia sees even Russians themselves as slaves who do not deserve the right to information too. Anything that contradicts propaganda and official ideomythology can be prosecuted and banned as extremist information.
Show threadPatty KimuraFeb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland Russia is a terrorist state.
Show threadOtownKimFeb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland Sounds like the GOP
Show threadUnprecedented 2023Feb 19, 2023
@EugeneMcParland Sad indeed. He wants peace talks, really? Shame.
Show threadxs4me2Feb 19, 2023

@EugeneMcParland

Part of genocide is erasing culture and identitiy… war crimes…

Show threadhapbtFeb 20, 2023
@EugeneMcParland no wonder republicans love them
Show threadjoe•iuculano Feb 20, 2023
@EugeneMcParland just like the direction #RonDeFascist is taking #Florida today and probably #America in 2024
Show threadLot⁴⁹Feb 20, 2023

@EugeneMcParland Yeah why not add book-burning to the list of their war crimes.

Jeez, Russians: you're the people of Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Turgenev. Why do you want to be such world-class jerks now?

Show threadGil Friend, sustainability OGFeb 20, 2023
@EugeneMcParland
Adding evil to evil
Show threadSalva 🇪🇺🇪🇸Feb 20, 2023
@EugeneMcParland without defending in any way the invasion I think this information from Reuters might contradict the story behind this photo: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-withdraws-19-mln-russian-soviet-era-books-libraries-2023-02-07/
Ukraine withdraws 19 million Russian, Soviet-era books from libraries

Ukraine had withdrawn from its libraries about 19 million copies of books by last November that came either from the Soviet era or were in Russian, a senior lawmaker said on Monday.

Reuters