Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Missouri GOP Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft rips a page from the Nazi playbook


Left headlineStanford Graduate School of Education, 7/6/2022
Right headline:  St. Louis Post Dispatch, 10/17/2022

From the Stanford article:
How do the current book challenges compare with efforts from the past? 
I think for many of us, the history of book banning brings to mind some of the images of Nazi book burnings of the 1930s, which was fictionalized a couple of decades later in Fahrenheit 451. In fictionalizing the practice I think we’ve allowed ourselves to think it’s something that couldn’t happen again, and yet folks who are really committed to book banning right now are using a lot of the same strategies that we saw in the past. 


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