It’s similar to conspiracy debunkers and how they sometimes fall prey to the conspiracies they debunk. If you read enough of their shit, your mind fills with shit.
Sometimes it takes hold.
It shouldn’t be required reading, and bluntly, isn’t necessary are to read Mein Kampf to understand hitler, and giving broad platform is only going to normalize hitler’s rationalizations.
(And let’s be clear. The rhetoric may not be entirely how he thought. It was propaganda to play up people’s fear- especially fear of the Other.)
Banning Mein Kampf and other politically taboo books will never stop people from becoming authoritarian monsters. This pearl clutching about reading material seems to be endless.
Of course, it shouldn’t be required reading for an average person. It should for someone who claims to be an expert on subjects that are directly related to it.
If a counter-terrorism intelligence analyst doesn’t read the manifestos of their targets, they can’t do their jobs effectively and should be fired. Doesn’t mean that they secretly harbor a yearning for a “global caliphate” or bombing more federal buildings.
Normal folks shouldn’t have to read “taboo” material, or anything for that matter (I had to read it for History class), but if they don’t and claim to be experts or pass themselves as authorities on said material, then they’re wannabe know-it-alls whose opinion about it is next to worthless.
Why? Because they didn’t do the homework related to primary source material and are uninformed about the nature of what they purport to fight against. If reading only Mein Kampf turns you into a national socialist, then you were already a weak-minded idiot. And yes, Nazi Germany was a nation of millions of weak-minded idiots.
Yes. Understand the enemy if you wish to defeat them.
You’re pretty freaking naive.
It’s similar to conspiracy debunkers and how they sometimes fall prey to the conspiracies they debunk. If you read enough of their shit, your mind fills with shit.
Sometimes it takes hold.
It shouldn’t be required reading, and bluntly, isn’t necessary are to read Mein Kampf to understand hitler, and giving broad platform is only going to normalize hitler’s rationalizations.
(And let’s be clear. The rhetoric may not be entirely how he thought. It was propaganda to play up people’s fear- especially fear of the Other.)
Banning Mein Kampf and other politically taboo books will never stop people from becoming authoritarian monsters. This pearl clutching about reading material seems to be endless.
Of course, it shouldn’t be required reading for an average person. It should for someone who claims to be an expert on subjects that are directly related to it.
If a counter-terrorism intelligence analyst doesn’t read the manifestos of their targets, they can’t do their jobs effectively and should be fired. Doesn’t mean that they secretly harbor a yearning for a “global caliphate” or bombing more federal buildings.
Normal folks shouldn’t have to read “taboo” material, or anything for that matter (I had to read it for History class), but if they don’t and claim to be experts or pass themselves as authorities on said material, then they’re wannabe know-it-alls whose opinion about it is next to worthless.
Why? Because they didn’t do the homework related to primary source material and are uninformed about the nature of what they purport to fight against. If reading only Mein Kampf turns you into a national socialist, then you were already a weak-minded idiot. And yes, Nazi Germany was a nation of millions of weak-minded idiots.