You know, Godwin’s law aside, it’s not hard to find parallels between Germany under Hitler and America under Bush. Replace “jew” with “terrorist” or “fag” with … well, “fag”. I’ll grant you, this only works in broad strokes, but it seems like we as a nation have learned nothing at all from the last hundred years.
Case in point: Alabama wants to destroy books that contain homosexual references.
Never mind the fact that this has no fucking chance of making it past 1st amendment law, but seriously, how does anybody ever get away with even suggesting this sort of thing? Is book-burning the eternal cry of the morally superior? Proposing a law demanding that citizens refrain from thinking about something would be immediately shot down by the court of public opinion, but somehow suggesting the same thing, substituting “reading” for “thinking” is acceptable.
I weep for our society.
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