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1. Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 08:06:04 JST Angry Sun
   I am still trying to decide what I think about things like this. On one hand they aren't outright saying that the books should be banned so it's not necessarily blatant hypocrisy. On the other hand "they don't meet our qualifications as banned books" is. They are banned all over the place. Someone else decided other people can't read them.
   
   It is not "self-evident" that any book anywhere should literally be prevented from being available. If you think that you _are_ a book banner, so make your advocacy about something else than free inquiry and freedom because you do not believe in those things.
   • sim@shitposter.world's status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 08:06:01 JST sim

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     @sun @allison This might be the case when I tried reading Marx. Is it as bad or worse?
   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 08:06:02 JST Angry Sun

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     @allison literally unreadable when I tried.
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     @sun if it's about things like mein kampf, I think people really *should* read it just so that they have to deal with the horror that is hitler's prose style and be inoculated that way
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     @sim @sun Much worse. Marx is dense but Hitler is actually insufferable as a prose writer. Literally some of the most inane and eyes-glazing-over rambling you'll ever read in your life. Actually, a lot of Nazi literature is like this, they had a serious dearth of good writers and it shows.