I had trouble even reading that screed.
Bookstores have some period when they celebrate "banned books." Least they do here. My brother in law used to do the windows for the store he worked in to pay his way through college.
The United States doesn't ban books. True. That would be against the First Amendment. The government
shall not...
The people, OTOH, they can do whatever the hell they feel like.
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We have gone to war with people who do burn books; Adolph Hitler comes to mind. Stalin. Pol Pot. There are others.
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He seems to miss the point that those are not
people, they are States. A government burning books is entirely different than
people burning books. A state compels people to burn books (or not own them) on pain of death or loss of liberty. That's all the difference in the world.
Wonder how the kos people reacted to the artistic equivalent of burning the koran—putting a cross in a jar of piss, for example? I'd be interested to know, since the left can always be counted on to defend first principles for Islam, but never for the religion they really hate, Christianity.
Note I have no dog in the fight, being an atheist.