silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months agoUtah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban | State has ordered 13 books by seven authors, six of them women, to be removed from every public school classroom and librarywww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1439arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: exmormon@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldbannedbooks@literature.cafeusnews@beehaw.org
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minus-squareNocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up50·3 months agoWhy can’t we ever get rid of fascists? Every generation they try the same crap and get away with it.
minus-squarechemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·3 months agoBecause the same people taking away the rights are the ones saying that we can’t retaliate for taking away our rights.
minus-squareSGGeorwell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·3 months agoI suspect it’s just a personality type. Maybe we could use eugenics to get rid of this undesirable trait. Oh wait. Dammit
minus-squareValthorn@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up13·3 months ago Why can’t we ever get rid of fascists? I believe this is where the second amendment comes in.
minus-squareBurn_The_Right@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoBecause they call themselves “conservatives” and insist they are legitimate, normal people with legitimate, normal viewpoints. This fools the normal people into a false sense of safety.
minus-squareKalysta@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoIt’s the paradox of tolerance. Leftists want to be tolerant of different beliefs and fascists use that against them. We need to stop tolerating the intolerable.
Why can’t we ever get rid of fascists? Every generation they try the same crap and get away with it.
Because the same people taking away the rights are the ones saying that we can’t retaliate for taking away our rights.
I suspect it’s just a personality type. Maybe we could use eugenics to get rid of this undesirable trait. Oh wait. Dammit
I believe this is where the second amendment comes in.
100%
Because they call themselves “conservatives” and insist they are legitimate, normal people with legitimate, normal viewpoints. This fools the normal people into a false sense of safety.
It’s the paradox of tolerance.
Leftists want to be tolerant of different beliefs and fascists use that against them.
We need to stop tolerating the intolerable.