And you know we knew even then and it later of course became horribly true. It was May of 1933 when they burned 20,000 books at a plaza you know Bebelplatz in Berlin. And I think that itself is incredibly clarifying.”Įrrol Louis followed up by focusing exclusively on conservatives, “I was looking and it's, this is the 90th anniversary. It's book bans, it's speech codes, often in the name of free speech, which makes it even more Orwellian. After calling the revisionists “Orwellian” for their obsession with modern sensibilities, Avlon labeled conservatives “even more Orwellian,” claiming, “The extremism on the right in this case is political. Senior political analyst John Avlon agreed with Surowiecki that conservatives are worse.
It's pretending this time did not exist.” But the revisionism too is terrible, not just because it's, you know, sanitizing. The book bans are awful, regressive, fascist, terrible - terrible.
Cupp offered up a false equivalency when condemning both sides, “it's very disorienting to live in a time where these rights are under assault I think from the left and the right at the same time. However, facts weren’t of the highest priority for this discussion. Any book that is removed from a school library can still be accessed elsewhere and in its original state. Re-writing books is actually “far, far grimmer,” because the original book disappears and sometimes for the dumbest reasons, such as the promotion of gender neutralism.
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