The allies burned more books than the Germans. Sometimes a good book burning is warrented.
Strongly disagree. You just turn them into martyrs by doing it.
By performing actions that show you're scared of their words/ideas, you give them power.
Yes. Show the world what's in the talmud. All normal (non psychopathic) people will see it as degenerate garbage and the followers of such doctrines as a dangerous threat to humanity.
Burn something... but not the books.
You get it!
FINALLY.
I disagree, by burning some of their books one shows a total rejection of their degeneracy. Of course examples should be kept for study and to showcase why the burning was warrented in the first place.
The Allies burned German books because the Jews fear united European societies.
I disagree, by burning some of their books one shows a total rejection of their degeneracy.
You can do so by literally stating, with specifics, that you reject their degeneracy. And then, using argumentation structures such as syllogisms, systematically take apart the content.
By burning their books, you immediately give them power. That power being that you're factually so scared of their words that you'd rather burn them than let others read them.
Of course examples should be kept for study and to showcase why the burning was warrented in the first place.
Oh, okay, so I'd say we largely agree. I just think burning books gives the "victims" the opportunity to cry that they are martyrs and that gives them more power.
The Allies burned German books because the Jews fear united European societies.
I'm glad you mentioned that.
The Allied Military Directorate admitted that their book burnings of the Nazi books was no different than the Nazi book burnings (a tacit admission that it was wrong):
To re-educate Germany, the Allies last week adopted a typically Nazi device. The four-power Coordinating Committee decided to reduce to pulp all "undemocratic, militaristic and Nazi" literature, museum and library material, newspapers, films and war memorials. Tombstones were excepted.
How would "democratic" be defined? Said Miss Cox: "Everything American people think and call democratic." Was the order different in principle from Nazi book burnings? No, not in Miss Cox's opinion.
But most observers condemned the order as a piece of unenforceable foolishness which would only increase interest in the verboten books, and martyrize Germany's nationalistic spirit.
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