/lit/ - Literature

All books deserve to be burned. Literature is a scourge of humanity.

>>15063122
Based

>>15063118
it's not the book burning itself, but it's representation of violent censorship, and the symbolic declaration of complete, malicious control.

>>15063130
I don't think it really is. It's just deeply offensive to contemporary liberal sensibilities. And that's the whole reason the Nazis did it.

To their enemies it's the declaration that even their beloved press isn't safe. To their supporters it's a declaration that this kind of ignorance and perversity won't be allowed to spread any further.

>>15063165
A person's ability to chose what they consume is their freedom. To publicly announce that freedom of choice is not tolerated is a clear declaration of violence and censorship.

>>15063183
And people have the freedom to choose to burn. A society of enforced tolerance is a society where freedom only extends as far as your nose, the purely legalistic freedom of an Anglo or a Jew.

>>15063194
you're a moron.

>>15063195
Libtard = owned

>>15063165
This
It's one of the most based things I've ever seen; burning pedophile tranny propaganda in public.

>>15063165
You're an ahistorical nitwit

The only books deserving of being burned and wiped off the face of the planet are those by Ayn Rand. Treacherous danger to organised society.

>>15063195
And like a quibbling jelly he retreats.

>>15063202
>NOOOOOOO NOT THE HECKIN BOOKERINOS NOOOOOOO
>except the ones i don't like lol ban that filth

>>15063197
>>15063206
I'm not your highschool history teacher.

Burning books is always a pathetic cope

>>15063321
BURN

>>15063327
Triggered

>>15063118
what is the difference between burning books and publishers refusing to print certain older books or new books with certain content?

>>15063390
intent.
burning books is a show of power
people not printing books is because they think it won't sell/will hurt their brand.
Both are dumb, but one is a little more pure-hearted greed.

Books get pulped en masse all the time. Most book simply don't deserve to exist and were a big fat mistake that cost some poor tree its life.

>>15063213
you were a minute ago

>>15063202
more like trenchcoat and fedora hazard

>>15063430
Yeah, but they don't pulp it in the middle of the street and make a big spectacle of it.

Also
>imagining all the priceless books that people threw out and were destroyed because they didn't know what they had.

>>15063449
They should.

I'd love to see all the crap they couldn't sell get burned. In fact I would pay a few dollars to see that.

iirc the books they were burning were what they unironically classified as "degenerate," like pornography and Krimi. I don't think the way it's framed today -- that they were burning literature to destroy knowledge -- is accurate. Same for girolamo Savonarola.

>>15063411
Difference between abortion and murder

>>15063459
My friend gave me a 1750s copy of ovids verwandlungen with gold-leaf and color lithographs. She fished it out of the trash after her dad threw it away.

>>15063570
Based dad.

>>15063509
exactly

>>15063118
>do some books deserve to be burned?
Yes, anything written by a jew deserves to be burned.

Its surprisingly hard to find the actual index of what was was banned. The magazine "Börsenblatt für den deutschen Büchhandel" is where the list originates from but I would have no idea how to find an archived copy.
>Good Soldier Švejk is a threat to Germany

>>15063130
>>15063165
>GERMANY: "Read No Evil"
>To re-educate Germany, the Allies last week adopted a typically Nazi device. The four-power Coordinating Committee decided to reduce to pulp all "undemocratic, militaristic and Nazi" literature, museum and library material, newspapers, films and war memorials. Tombstones were excepted.
>http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,776847,00.html
>TIME Magazine, Monday, May 27, 1946

What books did they burn?

>>15063122
Thank you, Plato

>>15063118
Only those incapable of defending their positions feel so threatened by other positions that they must destroy them

only if you are a conservative principles. they are just fine for libertarians or authoritarians.

>>15063118
It wasn't the destruction of the smut and drivel that was the problem, but the disobedience towards the Jews that this act represented.

>>15063118
Yes. Most of the books burned by Nazis were ones about transgenderism, prostitution and sexual deviancy whose only purpose was to corrupt their readers. Burning it was no different from burning garbage when the landfill overflows.

>>15063118
What is the point of having warehouses full of novels that sound and read the same, but with small adjustments?
Same authors, same stories, same shit. I say geburn them. Better to have books that disappear like money on the street instead of having a wide selection of the same scripts.

>>15063945
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_verbrannten_B%C3%BCcher_1933#Die_Listen_des_Bibliothekars_Herrmann

>>15063916
Any measure that we would condemn the nazis for is justified if it is done against the nazis, because the elimination of nazis takes precedence above every other moral obligation.

>>15063509
What difference?

>>15064741
Why

>>15063118
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT THE DEGENERATE TRANSGENDERINO SUBVERTERINO BOOKERINOS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

If only they could have thrown the authors on the pyre, too.

>>15064771
>tfw you realize the holocaust was made up

>>15064747
It's the founding principal of modern civilisation.

>>15064830
not an answer