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Halloween Book Burnings In North Carolina

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ebrown p
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 04:39 pm
@Cycloptichorn,
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These guys are right up there with the neo-nazis, we protect them too.


Goodwin's law... that was quick.
Cycloptichorn
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 04:40 pm
@ebrown p,
ebrown p wrote:

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These guys are right up there with the neo-nazis, we protect them too.


Goodwin's law... that was quick.



It's Godwin's law. And it's applicable; the Nazis did plenty of book-burning themselves.

Cycloptichorn
ehBeth
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 04:45 pm
@ebrown p,
ebrown p wrote:
Burning books itself is a act of expression-- an exercise of the very freedom at the core of American values and protected by the first Amendment.


It's a good thing because it's protected? Fascinating.
ebrown p
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 04:45 pm
@Cycloptichorn,
The Nazi's also apparently gave government sponsored health insurance to illegal immigrants. What's your point?
ebrown p
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 04:47 pm
@ehBeth,
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It's a good thing because it's protected? Fascinating


I am saying it is a public expression, it is a fine way to express an opinion and it doesn't hurt anyone. Freedom is a good thing.
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Cycloptichorn
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 04:49 pm
@ebrown p,
ebrown p wrote:

The Nazi's also apparently gave government sponsored health insurance to illegal immigrants. What's your point?



My point is that people who burn books are pieces of **** who deserve extreme derision, continued derision, and I aim to see that they get what they deserve.

What is your obsession with defending religious idiots? It's like you have some sort of masochist inside you, which is looking to break out and make a fool of you at every opportunity.

Cycloptichorn
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 04:51 pm
@djjd62,
I agree with you on that sentiment but I'm not sure how someone from New York (like myself) would have to do to try to get that message across to that particular community and those surrounding communities in North Carolina who (if not discouraged) would start to idolize those people who would fall to such activities and call them brave.
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ebrown p
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 04:52 pm
@Cycloptichorn,
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My point is that people who burn books are pieces of **** who deserve extreme derision, continued derision, and I aim to see that they get what they deserve.

What is your obsession with defending religious idiots? It's like you have some sort of masochist inside you, which is looking to break out and make a fool of you at every opportunity.


My point is that these people are human beings who deserve the same rights and respect as anyone else who dares to disagree with me.

I defend them because they are being attacked. In my opinion opposing the defamation of religious or ethnic groups is an important thing to do.
Cycloptichorn
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 05:09 pm
@ebrown p,
ebrown p wrote:

Quote:

My point is that people who burn books are pieces of **** who deserve extreme derision, continued derision, and I aim to see that they get what they deserve.

What is your obsession with defending religious idiots? It's like you have some sort of masochist inside you, which is looking to break out and make a fool of you at every opportunity.


My point is that these people are human beings who deserve the same rights and respect as anyone else who dares to disagree with me.

I defend them because they are being attacked. In my opinion opposing the defamation of religious or ethnic groups is an important thing to do.


I think it's important that Books are defended from ignorant assholes. What did they ever do to those people? Nothing.

No human being has the right to avoid derision for their actions. No human being is impervious to criticism. Nobody is being defamed here at all; defamation implies lies and inaccuracy.

Cycloptichorn
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 05:12 pm
ebrown has taken it upon himself to be outraged at every perceived slight to religion as it appears on a2k. It's going to be a long season.
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ebrown p
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 05:21 pm
Does someone want to explain to me why burning your own copies of books is such a bad thing?

I have a list of books that I wouldn't mind burning (provided I didn't have to pay for the books)...

ebrown p
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 05:29 pm
@ebrown p,
Many people get very angry at this book

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:mbgLWebt0kKnTM:http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/thisweekineducation/upload/2007/10/edweek_runs_scientologist_ad_s/dianetics.jpg

... if at an anti-scientology protest, people burned their copies, would this be a bad thing?
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 05:31 pm
@LionTamerX,
LionTamerX wrote:

Quote:
from their web site;
Quote: We will be serving Bar-b-Que Chicken, fried chicken, and all the sides.


Ta hell with their dogma, I'm hungry. I wonder if they would be offended by my Setanta inspired tee shirt that reads " King James was a homo" ?


Hehehehehehehehehehe . . .

It's true, it's true, he was . . .
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 05:34 pm
If every retard involved buys a copy of these books, and then burns them, it will be a nice little piece of change for the publishers involved. Unintended consequences are a bitch . . .
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 05:38 pm
@ehBeth,
ehBeth wrote:
They're books.

It is bad to burn books.

The end.

Ya know, back in the days when producing books was difficult, I would have agreed with you.

Nowadays, books are commodities, though. Burning these books is a political statement, not a serious threat to the dissemination of the knowledge in the books they are burning.

Assuming they're not burning a Gutenberg Bible, or the original Gettysburg Address, or the journals of Lewis and Clark or some such, I say let 'em go for it.
ebrown p
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 05:49 pm
@DrewDad,
When books are gone-- will deleting a file from your Kindle have the same effect?
Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 06:03 pm
@ebrown p,
You make an interesting point, brownie, and I believe you make it unintentionally. Actual printed-on-paper books seem to be becoming a more and more rare phenomenon. Everything these days is on Kindle, on a CD, on tape, whatever. In vuew of this, burning a genuine book becomes an even more heinous undertaking.
Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 06:05 pm
One irony of this which i find very amusing is that they are burning books which it wouldn't bother me in the least to think are being lost.
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 06:06 pm
@Merry Andrew,
That's mere sentimentality.
farmerman
 
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Reply Wed 14 Oct, 2009 06:28 pm
@DrewDad,
All this burning is a symbol. Its nothing to do with content or mode of delivery of content.
I would assume that these douche bags would also disallow the content of the burned books to be available to their flock, no matter CD, kindle or paper. I cannot believe we are arguing that the mode of information delivery excuses the bookburning act itself. It wouldnt have the same newsworthy impact if they loaded up 200 Kindles and then just hit DELETE on the KJB, or the LVB.
(In fact thy wouldnt appear menacing, theyd appear hi tech ridiculous)
 

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