The left calls it "banning books": "As Philadelphia writer Kyle Sammin wrote last summer, dispelling the book-ban falsehood, "no one anywhere in America is banning books." That a book has been excluded from a library's collection doesn't constitute a "ban," especially if it's still "available for purchase anywhere in America!"
. . ."According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, it was "Nazi-dominated student groups [who] carried out public burnings ... in 34 university towns and cities." It was the Nazi plan "to synchronize professional and cultural organizations with Nazi ideology and policy (Gleichschaltung)." Nazi beliefs were imposed everywhere from town councils to glee clubs. It was the Nazi Students' Association, in cooperation with Goebbels's Propaganda Ministry, who proclaimed a "nationwide Action against the Un-German Spirit,'" the climax of which was public book-burnings.
"Yet, while students stoked the bonfires, their willing conformity to the Reich is why the event was a "presage [of] an era of state censorship and control of culture."
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"Or does anyone imagine typical American parents control the culture?
"Hardly. Hollywood, mainstream media, academia, and Democrat policies leave no doubt progressives have controlled the culture for decades, and still do.
"This is especially evident on university campuses, the virtual Forward Operating Bases of intolerance, speech codes, and groupthink. Three out of five college students self-censor their views on politics, religion, or race. Polls show as many as half of college students would "punish" free speech, 41% agree "physical violence can be justified to prevent [a] person from espousing" hateful views, and an astounding 48% agree "some kinds of expression are so offensive they deserve extremely harsh punishment — like the death penalty." Conservative speakers on campus are routinely shouted down, attacked, or disinvited lest their presence on campus "harm" students. In April, a mob of elite Stanford law students, "egged on by an administrator," shouted down a sitting federal judge, completely preventing his lecture.
"Meanwhile, evidence of the federal government's systematic censorship, particularly the Biden administration, piles up. . . ."
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