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Is Mein Kampf still a permitted text in schools in right wing areas?
« on: February 01, 2022, 01:57:51 PM »
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Is Mein Kampf still a permitted text in schools in right wing areas?

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Star Member Aristus (57,822 posts)

1. If at all, then only for symbolic reasons.

Republicans can only read at the most basic "Dick And Jane" level. There's no way in the world they'd be able to get through the dense, tangled, unreadable morass of "Mein Kampf."

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5. Permitted? Well, I can count on one finger the number of people

I knew as a high school student who read that book. Me. Same thing with Das Kapital (in translation). I read both in my senior year in high school. I read all sorts of arcane political things, but I was the only person I knew who did.

I suspect if there was a poll of DUers, only a very, very few have actually read Mein Kampf or Das Kapital.

So, it's not really a matter of allowing students to read books like that. It's almost impossible to get students to read anything of the sort, really.

However, I can tell you that there were no copies of either of those two books in our school library at all. I had to get them from the public library in my town. That was back in the days when library books had cards in them that showed a history of their circulation. Those two books had very few dates in them when the books had to be returned.

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8. Not permitted.

Required.

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Re: Is Mein Kampf still a permitted text in schools in right wing areas?
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2022, 03:02:21 PM »
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1. If at all, then only for symbolic reasons.

Republicans can only read at the most basic "Dick And Jane" level. There's no way in the world they'd be able to get through the dense, tangled, unreadable morass of "Mein Kampf."

Most DUmmies could not make it through The Lorax, even though it was written for them. Repeating talking points is not "thinking."
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Re: Is Mein Kampf still a permitted text in schools in right wing areas?
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2022, 03:04:48 PM »
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1. If at all, then only for symbolic reasons.

Republicans can only read at the most basic "Dick And Jane" level. There's no way in the world they'd be able to get through the dense, tangled, unreadable morass of "Mein Kampf."

So, if I can read DU and understand what's on it, then that means... ?
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Re: Is Mein Kampf still a permitted text in schools in right wing areas?
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2022, 03:45:53 PM »
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1. If at all, then only for symbolic reasons.

Republicans can only read at the most basic "Dick And Jane" level. There's no way in the world they'd be able to get through the dense, tangled, unreadable morass of "Mein Kampf."

IRL, my homeschooled daughter was reading Dostoyevsky's The Idiot (in English) and Shakespeare at age 12 or 13, and now is fluent in Mandarin. Her sister was more into Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters. Their brother was less of a reader, but read what he needed to teach himself to use mySQL, earn Eagle rank, become a KFC assistant manager, become proficient with a drum kit, and, IIRC, 2nd Purple (or 1st Brown) in karate ... all in his teens. As for myself, some of the authors I've read include Dickens (all), Thackeray (all), Austen (all), all three Bronte sisters (all), Dostoyevsky (all), Shakespeare's plays (all), some Tolstoy, some Turgenev, Thomas Hardy (all), some Thomas Sowell, Jules Verne, some Victor Hugo, Alexander Dumas Pere (in English; most), some Solzhenitsyn (including Gulag Archipelago), Mark Twain ... just of the top of my head. In the "dense, tangled, unreadable morass" department, I've read The Koran in English.
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Re: Is Mein Kampf still a permitted text in schools in right wing areas?
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2022, 06:16:20 PM »
Dem/lefties have an inferiority complex, that’s been well documented.

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Re: Is Mein Kampf still a permitted text in schools in right wing areas?
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2022, 10:36:12 PM »
Put copies of R. Limbaugh's "The Way Things Ought To Be" in classrooms; see how fast the Left becomes book banners.
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Re: Is Mein Kampf still a permitted text in schools in right wing areas?
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2022, 11:06:08 PM »
Quote from: dandi on February 01, 2022, 10:36:12 PM
Put copies of R. Limbaugh's "The Way Things Ought To Be" in classrooms; see how fast the Left becomes book banners.

Too late; they're already there...
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Re: Is Mein Kampf still a permitted text in schools in right wing areas?
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2022, 08:46:16 AM »
The ASSumption Stinker built into his "question" is DU-Grade stupid, Mein Kampf was never a textbook used in US schools. Did any high school libraries ever have copies, possibly alongside Marx's Das Kapital? Possibly in a teacher's-permission-only reserve? I don't know if I ever entered my high school's library (bought books for myself, yes; used my county library, yes).
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