Scott P. Johnson on Nostr: I’m not sure the best way to say this, but this cartoon (and the general meme that ...
I’m not sure the best way to say this, but this cartoon (and the general meme that fascists hate books) is unrealistic because there is actually whole library’s worth of “bad books” that a hypothetical fascist/nazi/white supremacist-only library could be stocked with.
That’s because these assholes are often incredibly prolific authors, they make and share reading lists and pictures of their personal libraries as a common past-time and ingroup signaling mechanism, and writing their own hate-novels is sometimes even considered a rite of passage. A lot of them are really crappy authors though.
https://sfba.social/@KeithDJohnson/110244526473997122
That’s because these assholes are often incredibly prolific authors, they make and share reading lists and pictures of their personal libraries as a common past-time and ingroup signaling mechanism, and writing their own hate-novels is sometimes even considered a rite of passage. A lot of them are really crappy authors though.
https://sfba.social/@KeithDJohnson/110244526473997122