“I condemn this act, not only because it is a crime against our institutions and community, but also because it is fundamentally un-American. This nation was founded on the right to free speech and open expression, and our libraries are the embodiment of that promise."

The Beachwood Police Department reported on May 2 the man checked out the hundred books from the Cuyahoga County Public Library Beachwood Branch, and posted a video of him burning the books on social media.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 个月前

    If your faith and beliefs are so righteous, strong, moral and important … you would never need to burn books to make others follow your convictions.

    Burning books just goes to show how deranged and unbalanced your beliefs are

    • AmidFuror@fedia.io
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      2 个月前

      God is on their side, but for some reason He can only accomplish His goals by having humans act on His behalf. By coincidence, the same would be true if there were no God at all.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      2 个月前

      I wouldn’t burn a copy of Mein Kampf, unless that’s the only political point of view in the library. I’m sure that library had plenty of right-wing books and were much more popular.

    • IamSparticles@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 个月前

      “Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven’t the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.”

      -Tommy Douglas

      Speech, Saskatchewan Legislature, February 17, 1954.

      • SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one
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        1 个月前

        What if it’s shitty Catholic bibles that flanderise and flanderise unti it’s all twisted to serve their own corrupt projection?

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 个月前

        Tommy Douglas, truly a great man … who led the movement that made it possible for public health care in Canada.