U.S. Authoritarianism Reaches Book-Burning Stage | The Mehdi Hasan Show

[@3ld919]

"When Fascism Comes to America It Will Be Wrapped in The Flag Carrying A Cross"- S. Lewis

[@reality6968]

The American people have had quite enough from the fascist left

[@TrumpIsADisgracedEx-President]

@@reality6968 You're projecting again Trump cultist.

[@bluhturn1051]

@@TrumpIsADisgracedEx-President you are the ones that are trying to force people to do things that they don’t want to do.

[@benharrington5875]

@@bluhturn1051 coming from a book burner. That's rich.

[@TrumpIsADisgracedEx-President]

@@bluhturn1051 Who's trying to force you to do something you don't want to do?

[@emsleywyatt3400]

If you only learn history that makes you comfortable, you're not learning history.

[@johngodley256]

It is not allowed to read books on sexuality or race, but insurrections and heaps of deadly firearms are fully acceptable. The republicans will only be happy when they have a stupefied populus who have no critical thinking and are easy to dupe.

[@kesart8378]

@@johngodley256 They already have that in their base. So why aren't they happy? Because they want all Americans to be as intellectually stunted as their base is...and the march towards Fascism plods on.

[@guynorth3277]

You're following a cult!

[@HaimTabibi]

Yikes. Folks trying to erase history are doomed to repeat it. Aggrandizing Jan 6 without denouncing the illegal behavior during the summer 2020 riots is foolhardy. Cancel culture is book burning.

[@sr2291]

I am doing my Portuguese geneology. I get what you are saying.

[@fuglong]

"We want our kids to be confused, ignorant, and angry just like us!!!"

[@bodybalanceU2]

ignorance is so easy to manipulate and subjugate

[@missbee3618]

@@bodybalanceU2 and there’s plenty of it to go round, clearly… 😕

[@sirknitsalot9504]

What could possibly go wrong? 😬😟😖

[@stylis666]

@@bodybalanceU2 "I love the uneducated." - one of the many narcissists looking for another victim "Blessed are those who haven't seen but believe." - one of the many narcissists looking for another victim And now people advocating for undermining teaching and freedom of thought, and advocating for book burning. There seem to be a pattern and there seem to be large groups of people who are more than willing to ignore it. We've seen that before in Spain and Germany. Will we ever learn to overcome it, or will we just allow it again?

[@irmasalgado1675]

Now a day's your white child is most likely educated enough to teach their racist parent's they they are dead wrong , remember your child has a mind of it's own , they will judge you .

[@paulroyle-grimes8279]

“Sexually explicit content”. Then you better get those bibles out of there.

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

Don't forget all of the violence against woman and children, genocide and racism it's littered with, and condones cover to cover!

[@joanjavellana9393]

I love that! Lo.

[@ralphm6901]

According to Genesis, Adam and Eve had three sons and went on to populate the Earth. Think about that. Take all the time you need...

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

@@Bob-of-Zoid The christian extremist on that school board would that see as a bonus not a weakness or flaw of the book. Show everybody their rightful, god given place in society under the squeaky white, pious patriarchs of course.

[@sr2291]

My best friend when I was little taught me about Jesus and also said she was not allowed to tell me the other things that were in her Bible. Why would parents do that to their children?

[@deevalerie5857]

I'm traumatised by the ignorance of these book-burning ridiculous Fascists

[@AngelRodriguez-zt6nv]

Bet they can't read anyway 🙄

[@AngelRodriguez-zt6nv]

Just imagine what the next generation will do 😳😱

[@myriamickx7969]

Kids in America seem to be easily traumatised... by books, not by the violence and pornography they can find on internet every day.

[@ThomBoecker]

@@myriamickx7969 They don't need the 'net. They have parents they live with.

[@TrippB194FA]

I'm traumatized by political correctness and CRT.

[@sundhaug92]

"slavery a deviation from US principles", then the US was founded by a lot of deviants

[@ferguson-factor7107]

Truth be told, it wasn't a deviation, it was woven into the very fabric of the U.S. Principles which is why they still have all of the Slave Code Laws, Black Code Laws & Pig Code Laws on the Books which should be abolished especially the "Citizens Arrest Law" among to many to count. Their end is very near.

[@joemachunda]

Slavery did not start with black slave owners in Africa selling their slaves to white slave traders. That is part of the truth black racists don't want told either

[@ferguson-factor7107]

@@joemachunda Actually, the truth be told, slavery started at the Vatican with the Papal Bull, Dum Diversas in 1452. It didn't start with Africans. Get educated and stop trying to revised true history.

[@konstantinosnikolakakis8125]

@Ferguson-Factor Slavery existed thousands of years before the birth of Christ. Secondly, every major abolitionist movement in history has been Christian led.

[@monkeybusiness2204]

The GOP: Let's not teach our future voters anything that will make them smart. Smart people tend not to vote for us.

[@jeris33]

GOP? Smart people don't call them that.

[@ryans6186]

@@jeris33 huh? Are you trying to make a point? It seems like you’re trying to say Monkey Business isn’t smart, which is fine, but makes it seem like you’re opposing his view that Republicans aren’t smart. However that logic YOU are also calling the Republicans not smart because they call themselves the GOP. So you’re both disagreeing and simultaneously agreeing with him. Weird comment, maybe you can shed some light on this.

[@kevinbrown7955]

Go to the head of the class.

[@ThomBoecker]

@@dragongrazer7620 Seems logical. However, the question remains, how can you be more ignorant than, say, Louie Gohmert?

[@MadKingLordeus]

@@ryans6186 BURN!!!! Tsssssss!!!!!

[@bettyveronica460]

Book-banning. "I love the poorly educated." - Donald J. Trump

[@johnedward3404]

** BECAUSE STUPID PEOPLE,,, ARE EASY TO FLEECE,, AND MANIPULATE. REPUBLICANS ARE SHAMELESSLY PLAYING ON THE WORST HUMAN INSTINCTS... LIKE RACISM AND TRIBALISM.. AND IT IS DESPICABLE,,, SO VOTE BLUE...**

[@IMGreg..]

This is a roadmap to mental slavery. Bob Marley would be devastated. "None but ourselves can free our minds" This is going to set some states and counties back generations more than they already are.

[@marieque9298]

Exactly, only books about white Jesus

[@elizabethstewart12]

Donald Trump loves ONE poorly educated criminal sociopath most of all.

[@hankgutter8669]

i knew immediately what tRump meant when he said that..translation " i love to con the ignorant idiots who are not used to critical thinking ...soo easy to do!"

[@Tom55data]

I recommend people read history from the 1930's in Germany to understand where the republican party is going. Of course, that if those "books" have not already been burnt.

[@madhatman9166]

THE MAGA MANIFESTO - In his 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism", cultural theorist Umberto Eco lists fourteen general properties of fascist ideology. He uses the term "Ur-fascism" as a generic description of different historical forms of fascism. The fourteen properties are as follows: "The Cult of Tradition", characterized by cultural syncretism, even at the risk of internal contradiction. When all truth has already been revealed by Tradition, no new learning can occur, only further interpretation and refinement. "The Rejection of modernism", which views the rationalistic development of Western culture since the Enlightenment as a descent into depravity. Eco distinguishes this from a rejection of superficial technological advancement, as many fascist regimes cite their industrial potency as proof of the vitality of their system. "The Cult of Action for Action's Sake", which dictates that action is of value in itself, and should be taken without intellectual reflection. This, says Eco, is connected with anti-intellectualism and irrationalism, and often manifests in attacks on modern culture and science. "Disagreement Is Treason" - Fascism devalues intellectual discourse and critical reasoning as barriers to action, as well as out of fear that such analysis will expose the contradictions embodied in a syncretistic faith. "Fear of Difference", which fascism seeks to exploit and exacerbate, often in the form of racism or an appeal against foreigners and immigrants. "Appeal to a Frustrated Middle Class", fearing economic pressure from the demands and aspirations of lower social groups. "Obsession with a Plot" and the hyping-up of an enemy threat. This often combines an appeal to xenophobia with a fear of disloyalty and sabotage from marginalized groups living within the society (such as the German elite's 'fear' of the 1930s Jewish populace's businesses and well-doings; see also antisemitism). Eco also cites Pat Robertson's book The New World Order as a prominent example of a plot obsession. Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak." On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will. "Pacifism is Trafficking with the Enemy" because "Life is Permanent Warfare" - there must always be an enemy to fight. Both fascist Germany under Hitler and Italy under Mussolini worked first to organize and clean up their respective countries and then build the war machines that they later intended to and did use, despite Germany being under restrictions of the Versailles treaty to not build a military force. This principle leads to a fundamental contradiction within fascism: the incompatibility of ultimate triumph with perpetual war. "Contempt for the Weak", which is uncomfortably married to a chauvinistic popular elitism, in which every member of society is superior to outsiders by virtue of belonging to the in-group. Eco sees in these attitudes the root of a deep tension in the fundamentally hierarchical structure of fascist polities, as they encourage leaders to despise their underlings, up to the ultimate Leader who holds the whole country in contempt for having allowed him to overtake it by force. "Everybody is Educated to Become a Hero", which leads to the embrace of a cult of death. As Eco observes, "[t]he Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death." "Machismo", which sublimates the difficult work of permanent war and heroism into the sexual sphere. Fascists thus hold "both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality." "Selective Populism" - The People, conceived monolithically, have a Common Will, distinct from and superior to the viewpoint of any individual. As no mass of people can ever be truly unanimous, the Leader holds himself out as the interpreter of the popular will (though truly he dictates it). Fascists use this concept to delegitimize democratic institutions they accuse of "no longer represent[ing] the Voice of the People." "Newspeak" - Fascism employs and promotes an impoverished vocabulary in order to limit critical reasoning. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NOW MEETS ALL THE REQUIREMENTS TO BE CONSIDERED TRUE FASCISTS....It seems The American Reich is rising.

[@doomlabs769]

Been watching Beau also

[@basedandconfused2991]

@Matt1147 Naw that's more like a greedy lord using the kings power to control the population and all the king did to set law was give him a set of basic rules. Just like most religions its the people that run them not the religion itself

[@kuistancfraine3488]

Well said...

[@owenokane9643]

And we know what happened to the German Reich. They should be very careful what they wish for.

[@sr2291]

Thank you for posting that.

[@-Subtle-]

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” - Ray Bradbury

[@aishabintabubakr4944]

That book sucked and should be burned.

[@post-leftluddite]

"Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people" - Heinrich Heine

[@williamriley5118]

Fahrenheit 451

[@tomfromoz8527]

@@aishabintabubakr4944 Nah. There are much worse, like The Catcher in The Rye. I still feel abused for having been forced to read it in school. But books (except bibles) should never be used as fire wood, as they harm no one. > Tom's wife

[@aishabintabubakr4944]

@@tomfromoz8527 I hated that book too...and to think that book caused the death of John Lennon. I am personally against many of the books that are read but if you want your Leftist book it should be paired with a Right-minded book

[@allisonshaw9341]

Every time a book has been banned, I went and bought it. I've collected quite the little library, and will keep on doing so.

[@dragondancer1814]

Nice to see I’m not the only one doing that!

[@kylereese4822]

Nazi`s burned books too... they also molested kids on a vast scale... are the book burners admitting to abusing there kids ????

[@markrobinowitz8473]

Burning books leads to burning people.

[@thegoddessdiana9185]

Per Heinrich Heine

[@taytk8005]

Perhaps Republican should get their members to burn their US$

[@krististevens230]

As a pagan I will back that comment.

[@ejaokay]

Sounding a little paranoid. You spend a lot of time on infowars or what?

[@taytk8005]

@@ejaokay Absurdity begets Absurdity

[@barbiedahl]

"A well educated citizenry" is not something radical violent republican authoritarians want.

[@g.d.graham2446]

True

[@malekkushimuzik3580]

Dems don't want it neither. That is why the keep Black Males reading on a 4th grade level.

[@g.d.graham2446]

@@malekkushimuzik3580 what are you talking about?

[@cobraofficer8399]

Probably not, both sides need soldiers! The better question is who are the radical authoritarians?

[@barbiedahl]

@@cobraofficer8399 reread what I said.

[@ryarod]

It's interesting how the party that yells the loudest about left-wing "censorship" and claims the left-wing is the Orwellian one... is the party that proposes *this*.

[@MKR5210]

The Republican party is the art of projection.,..

[@jamiemawer4865]

"Wherever they burn books, in the end will also burn human beings." - Heinrich Heine

[@thomashassall96]

Bring it on, let’s go Heinrich- Brandon (probably)

[@jerrys4841]

@@thomashassall96 Brandon? Let's Go Bannon! Did you graduate from high school?

[@thomashassall96]

@Dean F. Spasibo bolshoi comrade 🇷🇺

[@jamiemawer4865]

@Dean F. thank you

[@maximummatt73]

"Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses" - Big Zack

[@kermitefrog64]

This is like seeing George Orwell's "1984", "Fahrenheit 451" and other similar books playing out in real life.

[@dansprat]

Watch The Handmaid's Take, seems like that's where we are Heading. We should all be Afraid, Normal people that is, not RWNJ!

[@troypatterson6013]

Ironically, books such as those are the first that they want to ban.

[@gremlinn7]

@@dansprat Interestingly, that seems to be one of the very books that one school board was trying to ban! (At least that's the implication, see 3:15)

[@CaptWesStarwind]

@@dansprat I think that's actually one of the books they want banned.

[@James_Knott]

SHHHH!!! They'll want to ban it too.

[@Dlawderek]

I read Kite Runner in high school when I was probably 15 with the rest of my class. Not sure if anyone is familiar but there is sexual violence, pedophilia, and a suicide attempt in the book. It’s a very dark book but an important one. Books are at their best and most useful when they challenge our ways of thinking and force us to feel.

[@williamrainer8040]

I'm sure that Vladimir Putin is having good laugh at what Donald has done to the country.

[@frankdegroot8860]

Red comrade Poothin is the financier

[@Overcaffenated]

@Mr. Third Eye With only 5 words you managed to say unbelievable amount of nonsense! Amazing! 👏👏👏

[@petefl1818]

@Mr. Third Eye If that wasn't such a denial of the truth it would be hilarious.

[@michaeljaquish9708]

@Mr. Third Eye ... no. Racism began in America 400 years ago!

[@Noreb]

@Mr. Third Eye tell me youve never read an american history book without telling me youve never read an american history book...

[@PxThucydides]

“Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.” -Heinrich Heine

[@alanheyes694]

Yep. And it won’t take ‘em long.

[@steveholmes11]

They have been hanging people for over a century.

[@aladdinsane848]

if this man had the minimum level of education he needs for his job, he would never have said this sentence. These people are fascists without even knowing it

[@arminiusofgermania]

Heh. His last name is heiney.

[@anymoose]

Wow so true fellow human. These people who don't want their children indoctrinated will start burning people very soon!

[@Rakshasa1986]

"Have books on other perspectives on the holocaust" Where do I even begin with this?...

[@Vohlfied]

In Texas, where Mein Kampf, "the other side of the story" is now required reading.

[@MKR5210]

Teacher: It might be a good thing to select a group of American citizens who's original race were not indigenous to North America and wipe them from the face of the Earth..... Discuss....

[@benharrington5875]

Yeah. This has always been the path of the republican party. Fascism is when corporate interest and government policies align. This has been the plan for a long time.

[@truthhurts4771]

Corporations merged with government = Fascism

[@jimbob3030]

@@truthhurts4771 You left out the critical ingredient, the religion that leads to fascism. (Typically christianity, but any abrahamic religion can take you towards fascism.)

[@clenke0]

We already have corporate oligarchic rule

[@truthhurts4771]

@@clenke0 True, but with democracy. Without a constitution and human rights, people will fear government in tyranny. Oligarchs are funding destruction of democracy.

[@clenke0]

@@truthhurts4771 that's the thing, we really don't have a democracy. Our democracy is an illusion. Our democracy is as plastic as our credit cards.

[@pghurd3340]

Imagine being so embarrassed about your past and so insecure about your sexuality that you do everything in your power to hide it or make it illegal to learn about it. Pathetic.

[@PETE4955]

Yep: nail on the head: hence the extradition of Assange and the erosion of the 1st amendment.

[@warthunder9155]

@@PETE4955 you guys are the ones in favor of hate speech laws and cancel culture.

[@yearight5303]

@@warthunder9155 Not really.

[@warthunder9155]

@@yearight5303 yes, really.

[@matjb]

You shouldn’t be comfortable when learning...anything, especially history. If you are comfortable, you’re not learning.

[@daviddawson1718]

If we're going to start burning books that can traumatize children, let's start with the book with the dude nailed to a stick.

[@kellyburket6955]

Well said Patriot!!!

[@honoralovall5983]

Good one!

[@chrismullin8304]

Also known as the greatest "story" ever told.

[@Wailwulf]

A cousin of mine had a Roman Catholic marriage (his fiancé was Roman Catholic) in a huge Roman Catholic church. My Niece an Nephew had never been in a Roman Catholic church before and were 6 or 7. During the ceremony, my niece turned to her mother with worry on he face and in her voice, asked: "Mommy, is that baby Jesus up there?"

[@Taladar2003]

@@chrismullin8304 A label that could have only been assigned by someone who never read any books that are actually well written.

[@Praetoreon]

Critical thinking is hard when “professors are the enemy”…

[@HotelPapa100]

Thinking is critical, because sense is not common Greater Sapien

[@sivartb7273]

"Books are dangerous, they make you think and ask questions. "

[@g.d.graham2446]

Indeed

[@tutuadefolalu3661]

Anyone else cringe at the fact that that guy was quoting Nixon like he was freaking Thomas Jefferson or something? Like, the dude was disgraced and forced to resign because of his own corruption. Then again, this is the party of Trump so of course that’s who they’d idolize.

[@annmarieknapp]

Thank you. Doesn't feel good to hear that scary sentiment when I've devoted my life to education at university.

[@jamesgoines7663]

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Winston Churchill "Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up." Ronald Wright "Silence ensures that history repeats itself." Erin Gruwell

[@BigDanOz]

Farenheit 451.. fantastic book! 👍Thank God my 6th grade teacher had me read that at such a young age. 🙏

[@audreysmith6221]

Oh...the books I read. That era is becoming the golden age of education...now we're regressing. 😢

[@aurora_occidentalis2248]

“‘Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.'”

[@misabbydu]

Yes, before that gets burned too.

[@crazypetemagicman]

It's coming to pass, ridiculous. Trump and the Republican puppets.

[@leehaelters6182]

@@aurora_occidentalis2248, they had those wall screens, kinda like we almost have now.

[@kateuhler7803]

Imagine trying to teach American music history without mentioning race. Impossible. Unless I'm expected to lie and/or skip entire important historical facts.

[@benharrington5875]

That's the point.

[@gordonstrong5232]

Yeah that's pretty much what maga wants

[@aurora_occidentalis2248]

No one is actually promoting that. It's just a fantasy that fulfills your need to feel superior and appear virtuous to your peers. Just like there was no actual book burning in this video about ... book burning.

[@CMDR_Hal_Melamby]

@@aurora_occidentalis2248 like you wish to appear more astute? Sorry but you failed.

[@troypatterson6013]

Exactly and teachers are now supposed to refer to slaves as "under-paid employees".

[@matthewcaldwell8100]

The problem is that parents don't like children who are capable of criticizing them. So they cannot be relied on to teach them to defy authority.

[@computernerdtechman]

It's ironic they are holding up signs saying "I am not an oppressor" when they are forcing their viewpoint and banning books.

[@sr2291]

Lol. That IS pretty funny isnt it.

[@Gem-n-life]

@@sr2291 -It’s not funny at all. This is the beginning of destruction of a nation.

[@elirien4264]

The disconnect is breathtaking.

[@computernerdtechman]

@@jackharper_games9046 What exactly is that ideology the left has been forcing - specifically, not generalities?

[@sunshinelizard1]

@@jackharper_games9046 Can you provide examples please that back up what you said?

[@Kraus-]

It's funny that she said the job of a teacher is to teach children to think critically and that it doesn't take away from parents' power. The root of the entire issue is that certain parents oppose critical thinking. They want their children to only believe what their religious book says is true.

[@Iquey]

I saw another video that parents are going after the mental health counselors as well. GEE, I WONDER WHY, wouldn't want your kid to rat you out as the cause of their depression and anxiety or violent mindset!!!

[@marygoround1292]

If these parents are so obsessed with how their children are taught, why don't they homeschool??

[@jojocarli2656]

I think it's not even the book, it's what the clergy is telling them. You can read the bible to justify literally anything; there are so many contradictory passages that things such as slavery have been both defended and opposed by religious groups, based on the same book. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if most Christians in the US don't even read the bible, they just listen to what leaders tell them.

[@keithbaker7097]

I used to be proud to be an American. Now I'm ashamed. This isn't the same place I grew up in.

[@jamessandsmark226]

I have never understood how teaching unvarnished truth to children is indoctrination, but doing the Pledge (altered to add "God"), a pablum history on the greatness of USA! USA! Economics that bows down to capitalism, etc... is not indoctrination.

[@MMuraseofSandvich]

It's projection. These fascists would love nothing more than to make every day in public school the same as Sunday Bible camp.

[@TooBadThatDidntKillMe]

Amusing hypocrisy in right wingers who like to trumpet "Facts Don't Care About Your Feelings" to left wingers decrying CRT- which is law school elective- because learning about how systemic racism in government, laws and society advantaged whites will emotionally traumatize white children into hating the color of their own skin and turn them all into an army of Rachel Dolezals. 😈

[@jillionairess]

People are being terrified and instead of researching this crap they just drink it up.

[@jillionairess]

@@TooBadThatDidntKillMe my husband is an attorney. We met when I worked for his law school. He’s never even heard of CRT until I brought it up.

[@hbowman108]

Tell the righties that the Pledge of Allegiance was a prayer to the state written by a known Communist which originally was accompanied by a Roman salute.

[@teckyoon4280]

As far as republicans and fascists are concerned, anything that gives them a political advantage, they will use it. It does not matter what it is about so long as it furthers their political agenda.

[@jordesign]

So unique to the Reps....

[@HaimTabibi]

Well no. Prime example: MSNBC.

[@brendacawston9236]

Usa sucks

[@zo9632]

-Malcolm X said "there is no greater threat to blacks than a white liberal".

[@cazmaniandevil1]

Go project your guilt onto your husband.

[@killero00]

As if the US education system wasn't already lacking.

[@susannehartl3067]

I've told this my husband yesterday after hearing the story on another channel. He told me, if this would happend here I would have to burn half my bookshelf. Thank god I live in Germany. Oh dear...

[@danihesslinger7968]

Me too (German, 72). This is ridiculous! The only thing that my parents did was to discourage me from reading were American comics.😃

[@danihesslinger7968]

P.S.: sorry for my garbled grammar - not due to reading too little, but due to this stupid mini-window for commenting on my tablet 😃

[@klaw7050]

The irony of your comment is too real.

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

@@klaw7050 Understatement of the Millennium hon!

[@hankgutter8669]

thank God i live in Australia..and not the US !

[@ralphm6901]

If any of the banned books are available in digital form, they're NEVER going to go away. If it's on the Internet, it's out there forever.

[@JSkyGemini]

Don't worry. The rest of us out here in the real world, are still living with reality and history won't die with us. No offense though but you couldn't pay me to go anywhere in the US. It's done, put a fork in it.

[@mattroberts86]

@@JSkyGemini You should have more hope. Because there are way too many American military bases around the world, if wannabe nazis are just handed the keys of control.

[@dHolbach77]

It'd be much harder, because thousands of books can be stored on a single hard drive/flash drive, uploaded, etc., but the internet itself could be (and is) banned in certain areas, and even worldwide if authoritarianism takes over most or all major countries. You'd have groups of resistance techies trying to keep a free (very limited) internet going (as they are in certain areas now), with free media (news, videos, books, etc), but authoritarian regimes would be stamping out those sites as they popped up (as they do now). Also, news would come from underground outfits as all major media outlets would be banned/shut down. The widespread free sharing, much less very existence, of information is not inevitable. For millennia the average person couldn't read, or couldn't read the language the printed word mostly was produced in. Only the educated/wealthy elites had access to important knowledge. There is no reason that technology can conquer the tendency of humankind to repress information. It makes it more difficult (the printing press made the widespread availability, and affordability, of the written word much more accessible to the average person for instance), but hardly impossible. Don't assume anything is inevitable.

[@scottball6431]

Well said

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

_"They don't gotta burn the books,_ _They just remove 'em!"_ --Rage Against The Machine A lot of kids are being raised to not think critically. Many of them may never be exposed to a life-changing work that could develop their minds and make them see reality clearer because of this ridiculous fascism. Many parents don't want their own indoctrination of their kid interrupted by someone introducing reality, is what...

[@pjhenehan]

"There's a wisdom in what Richard Nixon said..." surely the most absurd statement to support any argument.

[@laskey2175]

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - George Orwell "What you're seeing... is not what's happening." - Trump One of the only things different between a ww2 Nazi and a Trumpist is their lack of shame.

[@tonyduncan9852]

You got that last part wrong. I haven't seen any ashamed fascists anywhere, and worshippers of the marmalade mussolini aren't ashamed at all. Empty vessels make the most noise.

[@OGCHUCK1]

@@tonyduncan9852 you can't reason with leftist they thing anything is discrimination or racist.

[@OGCHUCK1]

@@jkarma3356 i dont think about colors when i see others is something you do i see everyone as equals i don't divide people by race or color like you leftist.

[@OGCHUCK1]

@@jkarma3356 i am not left or right i dont divide my self in to your meaningless political division i just make fun of you because all of you left and right are funny and stupid both sides.

[@OGCHUCK1]

@@jkarma3356 keep telling your self that you forget is the usa constitution that allow both side to exist not your party.

[@judithsmith9582]

"Wherever they burn books, in the end will also burn human beings."

[@R0swell5104]

Looking at the United States as an outsider, I think the greatest myth that had been perpetuated to your own people since independence is that you are a free and democratic country.

[@Blackwolfufk]

We are so "free" that over half of the adult population has been in jail at one time or other over fines, and a plant.

[@elirien4264]

We keep telling ourselves we are free. We probably never really were.

[@brendaluv2017]

You are absolutely right all the freedom has been sucked out of this country. I don’t recommend on living here

[@martinwhalley3286]

Agree

[@sandraullmann5711]

Didn't they do this back in the forties or fifties also Hitler was known for doing that as well.

[@JSkyGemini]

It's straight out of fascism 101. You always vilify your opposition and media as enemies of the state.

[@jeris33]

Yes that was part of Hitler's reputation I think. He was known for that. Also mass murder was something people knew him for as well. He has quite a reputation that guy! Whenever that was, the forties or fifties, who knows, since no one who's alive now was alive then. 🤷🏼

[@Babyluthi]

@@jeris33 "...since no one who's alive now was alive then". This is categorically untrue. How old are you??

[@nobodythatyouknow241]

@@jeris33 I see that good old USA education system at work with this one.

[@kenchristie9214]

In '64 they burnt Beatles records, when John Lennon pointed out that the youth of that time worshipped the Beatles more the God. To elaberate, John was asked "What does it mean being a Beatle? John replied that while he was famous he had in fact lost his identity. Instead of Being John Lennon, he was now one quarter of a deity that is worshipped more than God.

[@lindagodichiabois2768]

Good thing I no longer live in the US, I'd have to burn my entire bookshelf.

[@ShyLuna44]

I was a foster kid and wish we had those books when I was growing up. I know the books they are talking about cause I bought the entire set from that author, it helped me so much even as an adult and helped me see a future despite the horrible childhood I had. Ignorance about the past doesn’t help anyone and pretending these things aren’t going on in our societies just keeps us stuck and repeating the past over and over again! It’ll be kids that will be missing out horribly and building a whole future of hateful people. This is gross and disgusting and I’m so thankful I’m not American!

[@hankgutter8669]

me too!

[@sugarsore]

Which author?

[@6h471]

Because an educated electorate would mean the end of the GOP.

[@dr.livesey7595]

And by educated you mean leftist?

[@6h471]

@@dr.livesey7595 217 federal indictments of people either directly involved in the criminal trump administration, or close to it, vs 3 indictments total for the last 3 democratic administrations. So yeah, I'd just as soon see my kids educated by people who don't support criminals.

[@Lasercatss]

Those ‘concerned parents’ honestly looked unhinged and unwell. This mass delusion in the US is getting worse

[@lorihenderson673]

The professor as the enemy? The republican party is vile.

[@ivorthomas8168]

I'm so glad my kids go to school in Europe where we don't have this creepy, narrow minded view of education. As Europeans we know what happens next when books are burned.

[@donjindra]

Until 2016 Mein Kampf was banned in Germany. Is it now in all public school libraries?

[@donjindra]

@Welcome Welcome That doesn't answer my question. Is Mein Kampf now in all public school libraries? When you answer that then maybe you can talk about my supposed ignorance.

[@tweda4]

@@donjindra Do you really think that Mein Kampf, a book written by a genocidal dictator, about how he perceived Jews to be the source of all evil, carries the same educational value as the books being banned in these school libraries? And besides that, we've got people in educator boards talking about burning books. Lo and behold, Mein Kampf is still available for purchase, they've not all been incinerated.

[@grosenj]

@@donjindra No, Mein Kampf is not in all public school libraries. There you go.

[@donjindra]

@@tweda4 My point was that Germany and Europe are not in a better position on this issue. We all limit access to certain things in schools.

[@maxmustermann9587]

_"Wherever books are burned, people will also be burned in the end."_ - from the tragedy _Almansor_ written by Heinrich Heine in 1823.

[@kirklarson4536]

When I was in Jr. High and High School I read a lot of books that were well above my age level, some with explicit material. My parents were just glad I was an active reader. Let kids read what they want. If you have concerns, talk with them about it. Don't clamp down on them.

[@elirien4264]

Are you serious??? You're asking these parents to be ADULTS!

[@Vekstar]

Were dealing with fundies here. They don't trust the state cause there book tells them not to trust the state. Unless it is controlled by them and there particular branch of fundies

[@sandralewis2050]

Straight from the Fascists play book.

[@jimmythebold589]

i presume that one will be spared from the bonfire

[@sandralewis2050]

@Unknown Variable 💯 this is escalating fast.

[@waltergiles86]

You are right Medhi, this IS America, laid bare!☠️

[@cherpiette4216]

This story shows exactly why moms, especially one's not well educated, should not dictate what books should be banned. Soon science and upper math courses will be banned. The fascist motto is "keep them uneducated. "

[@maharajjinkb7824]

Parents are rightfully outraged that their children are being exposed to sexually explicit reading material, especially when it promotes all sorts of sexual perversions. The other big issue is CRT. -- All white people are racists. Patriotism and national pride are racist. White people should feel ashamed for being white... It's all just indoctrination, so children will grow up to be good little leftists. Sorry. Not happening on our watch.

[@heathermatthews1323]

@@maharajjinkb7824 Have you tried reading the Bible ?

[@hopeintruth5119]

@@maharajjinkb7824 there is literally no sexually explicit books in the school. They have to be checked before they enter school and organized by age group. You should know this. CRT is only taught in college, unless their is a law elective class in high-school, but even they don't talk about it.

[@montyspa6950]

why would you single out moms lol. any parent who supports this is stupid, it has nothing to do with whether or not theyre a mom.

[@JSkyGemini]

Are we able to sue these clowns for giving us PTSD?

[@sr2291]

I already have PTSD. They are making it worse.

[@Vohlfied]

In the US, you can sue anyone for anything.

[@marygoround1292]

Aren't these the same people who were up in arms about Dr. Seuss? Also, how many of these people have actually read the books they're trying to ban?

[@niborselrahc4651]

I can see why they banned "the handmaids tale" as it appears to be quite predictive of what is coming soon in Merica.

[@blondhairblackstrat]

True, that.

[@rlcopeland3092]

How about just teaching our children the truth. Shielding them from our own fears. Is not the answer. Facing and overcoming the fear is...

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

Conservatism lives and breathes the fear, it needs the "scary other" to define itself and find it's place in the world: to withstand the permanent threat. And their ultra literal religious denominations also are of a similar pattern... teaching demons are walking among us and every temptation can be your downfall and ticket to eternal doom...What will happen to everybody if they take Revelation serious. VERY VERY serious.

[@sunshinelizard1]

I don't know if it's fear as much as hate and resistance to anything that isn't aligned with their view. Yeah, I suppose what's behind that is some sort of fear.

[@dr.livesey7595]

The truth is that White americans will be a minority soon betrayed by a cosmopolitan elite that only cares about driving down wages by Immigration and by doing that creating more voters only based on their skin color. Evolutionary speaking the US White Population is a genetic dead end. Congratulations Democrats. You finally achieved what you always wanted: let your self hate anhilate you Out of this world forever. Doenst matter what color you are, being a minority in a country is always bad. Democrats are as stupid as liberal south africans were. They also wanted to liberate everyone but that only led to violence against their own group by africans. Now white people there are suffering.

[@katherinecrossman8521]

I am 70 . I have seen book banning to. My parents , aunts and uncles said " read." Discuss what you read with us. If we like it too , we will tell why. If we don't like it , we will tell you why. You will learn how to think more critically that way. I am still learning to gather information , discuss with others , and ask the questions who what where and why. And don't forget how.

[@keithmorrison2514]

What next Witch trials.

[@HaimTabibi]

Those are already going on. And look no further to these posts to see calls for political prosecutions.

[@scottdavis3571]

Conservatives will try to burn people up for witches next.

[@jimbob3030]

Death squads is my guess.

[@MMuraseofSandvich]

They're already calling for firing squads and gas chambers, which the Nazis and Italian Fascists were notorious for.

[@keysersoze8040]

Don’t give them any ideas…

[@tigranshmis]

“The professors are the enemy” - these guys are crazy.

[@owenokane9643]

I can't get my head around the fact that these loonies sit in government education departments and school boards and branding educators as the enemy. America has disappeared so far down the rabbit hole..

[@VanisleGirl1961]

No, they're ignorant facists

[@g.d.graham2446]

Indeed

[@Julia-lk8jn]

You know, when somebody decides to make a quote that short, they're probably twisting it. I'm almost certain that in context, that was some sort of "oh, did I just say that out loud?" quote where he points out that ignorant people are easier to manipulate. AKA "libraries are dangerous breeding grounds of the mind".

[@Julia-lk8jn]

Looked it up ... apparently, the context was an internal conversation, so it's not really "us" as in "us Americans" but as in "us Republicans" or "us White House inhabitants". Or "us" as in "me and my pals".

[@TheSneezingMonkey]

So this is how liberty dies… with thunderous applause

[@vickimahan2497]

Major steps toward Fascism are scary.

[@Raptorman0909]

The steps being taken today are not towards Fascism, it is travelling deeper into it -- we ARE a Fascist state and the modern Brown Shirts are mobilizing!

[@AdamBladeTaylor]

You mean the last little jog to the finish line. The major steps were taken long ago. America is fully entrenched in fascism at this point.

[@wileyschmitt]

Let's face it though, none of the people complaining and wanting to ban books, from either side, don't actually do much reading at all.

[@robertb.australia.8801]

We don't need to read the books , we have smart people like MTG and Boebert and Fox to help and lead us to a better white Christian America . WTF.

[@grahamcampbell8297]

Good point. They’re banning books they have never read, but believe are bad. This is very scary.

[@brentwalker3300]

Did you say "from either side"? How many liberals are making lists of books to ban/burn?

[@wileyschmitt]

@@brentwalker3300 Plenty of illiterate liberal who want anything that they consider 'racist' to be banned. Just face the facts that morons don't even read books are on both sides of the isle arguing about books.

[@danielmartin5632]

@@wileyschmitt name some.

[@sionnachmacbradaigh1010]

I left the US in 2016 and am in the process of renouncing my citizenship. I feel like one of the Germans who left their country in the 1930s.

[@mschaseste]

Where are the parents with a scintilla of intelligence speaking up against these crazies? They’re probably quiet because they don’t want to hire 24 hour security because all these lunatics are armed.

[@Vekstar]

Or more like they dot have the time or have kids.

[@michaeljwoodwi]

"Some of the things you'd come across is shocking". You mean, like the Bible?

[@sealyoness]

Yeah, there's a lot stuff in there... The OT has murder, twisted truth, child sacrifice (nearly), dreadful manners, betrayal, oppression, and fire coming down from the sky. It also documents in detail battles, miracles (parting of the Red/Reed sea can be explained by studying tectonics and vulcanism, but I don't think Moses studied geo-physics et. al. But it also has instances of great courage, faith, wisdom, personal responsibility, regret... and lions. :D

[@Axolotl_Mischief]

TONS of violence and other insane crap in that book, and they're ok with that because they believe it's nonfiction.

[@karlschmied6218]

„Christianism“ is a form of Authoritarianism. Don‘t let these people overthrow the Constitutional separation of religion and state. Vote!

[@jonaspatterson9551]

If we burn books......let's start with The Art of the Deal.

[@AngelRodriguez-zt6nv]

It's so embarrassing to be an American 😔

[@jimbob3030]

Yes, yes it is.

[@sinsincere5748]

Na, only be embarrassed if you're a white Republikkkan. It's The New Nazi Republikkkan Party that is making America look bad

[@rjlchristie]

I confirm that these days the rest of us look a little sideways at Murkins when we first meet them. It's a matter of is this person part of the 50% who inhabit the state of crazyland or a sane one.

[@krististevens230]

Amen to that

[@TheUMIA]

You can always leave.

[@paulhcan]

The argument seems to be pitting what someone feels (emotions that everyone has) against thinking (which not everyone is capable of).

[@stehfreejesseah7893]

Fact don't care about your feelings? Lol

[@joshbarker4953]

All these right wing parents are going to make getting into college a lot easier for everyone who got a real education. Colleges are not going to want anything to do with these kids who had his halfway educations from a backwater state. Thanks conservatives!!

[@finnfan33]

Ty for the one silver lining!

[@JSkyGemini]

I think they're going to have the country torn up long before then.

[@andreaperry938]

My red state has ban teaching anything related to CRT and other social issues in colleges and universities.

[@krististevens230]

Lmao good point I never considered that

[@rogerwilco2]

I don't think the colleges and universities are set up to filter out these idiots.

[@jymbates9662]

Well, that puts "Catcher in the Rye" in danger. Isn't this also religion forcing itself upon the US

[@elirien4264]

Yes, but Christian Fascist are fine with it.

[@Vekstar]

They think freedom of religion is freedom to pick what branch of Christianity you want. And if they go with that logic than the US is a Christian country. And even then its got to be a protestant one.

[@MKR5210]

It is all about religion. Not real Christianity I might add. That would mean following the teachings of Jesus, and I don't recall Jesus hating anyone. This is about warping Christianity into a religion that supports your own hatreds, biggottry, and racism and then forcing it on others. The America most Americans believe in is in danger of being lost forever!

[@RonaldWashington]

I don't know where you grew up but I grew up in America and have experienced racism my entire life even while employed by the federal government

[@tzisorey]

"Make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives." Mein Kampf, now required reading in Texas.

[@janvanruth3485]

that would actually be e very good thing.

[@tzisorey]

@@janvanruth3485 Depends on how they teach it.

[@janvanruth3485]

@@tzisorey who says something about teaching? just reading should do.

[@tzisorey]

@@janvanruth3485 I dunno - some people seem to read Mein Kampf and take it as an instruction manual. Remember, it's apparently the only book Trump had on his nightstand.

[@janvanruth3485]

@@tzisorey trump reading? forget it....

[@pooglechen3251]

If the problem is with the library apps, you don't burn the books, silly, you need burn the laptops🔥🔥👍

[@mistysdad91]

...And smartphones, tablets, public libraries...

[@gloriaamadeo5389]

Well don't give these controllers new ideas, they may hear you.

[@annoyedaussie3942]

That means war with China and Vietnam who make most of them.

[@cherpiette4216]

And their cell phones 📵!

[@AdamBladeTaylor]

Need to burn the bigoted parents.

[@elviralopez6401]

Thank you for bringing this scary Totalitarian moment to light. This monster is growing with the help of the Republican Party.

[@marceechristensen2533]

WHAT HAS HAPPENED to “Separation of State I Church!”

[@JSkyGemini]

In the US, it never happened. You guys even have the word "god" on your dollar bills.

[@sds5502]

Not in the South. I think I prefer the Tavern on every corner of the Midwest, thsn the church on every corner in the deep South.

[@myrnajay2785]

Trump's Religious Freedom Act

[@vaevictis6990]

US is pretty much Iran, just with a white mythical sky daddy instead of allah

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

That never was the ideal of the radicalised Evangelical movement, they CRAVE the power of the state to force THEIR doctrine to become the only valid worldview in America. Manifest Destiny meets American Exceptionalism ala Joseph Smith for whom the Garden Eden was in Missouri.. to where Jesus would come back... any minute now. Republican politicians have increasingly been of the dominionist (Xtians should lead the world to bring it to the end as "prophecied"), Second Dispensationalist (Dispensations are kind of the "Ages of the Earth", this special branch believes the Second Age will end in the Rapture and they CANNOT WAIT for it to happen) flavoring for the last 20 years or so, with prominent examples like Pompeo or Bill Barr leading the charge... believing that Armageddon will come soon and it needs israel to be a unified country and basically all true Jews to live there...

[@critterkarma]

“Charlotte’s Web” was censored? Are you kidding????

[@jeris33]

Evidently it's because “talking animals are blasphemous and unnatural;” while passages about the spider dying were also criticized as being “inappropriate subject matter for a children's book." Children, who ask questions constantly about life, apparently can't be told that spiders die. America. 🇺🇸😆

[@critterkarma]

@@jeris33 OMG!! What is wrong with these people!!!!

[@critterkarma]

@jshowa o It’s beyond the pale. 🙇‍♀️🤦‍♀️ I try to see the world through other’s experiences, points of view. But I just can’t wrap my head around how cynical and hypocritical these people really are. Masquerading as righteous Christians. 🤮🤑🤮

[@grahvis]

@@jeris33. Presumably that would mean passages concerning a talking snake in Genesis are banned, also Balaam's talking donkey in Numbers 22:21-40.

[@foxymetroid]

@jshowa o I think that was an unintentional side effect of writing and enforcing a rule without bothering to consider the possible consequences first.

[@masondickerson9466]

Finally, I have been waiting so long for these news agencies to call it what it is.

[@deanpierre12]

I think this will work for us in the end, I don't know about you but every time I've told a kid not to do something they sure as heck did it anyway. So please tell them not to read! We'll see how well this works out.

[@otishudson3113]

You right, It's going too backfire.

[@sb-vj6kx]

I was freaked out more by some of the stories in Grimm Fairy Tales than from the book "Black Like Me."

[@VanisleGirl1961]

And aren't you grateful for being allowed to read both of them? And form your own thoughts without calling for the burning of Grimm's.

[@sb-vj6kx]

@@VanisleGirl1961 Yes I am grateful for books and reading, which allow each individual the opportunity to form their own opinions. I did read "Black Like Me" undercover at the tender age of nine. My mother was reading it for her class, but didn't think I was old enough to understand it. That was the only encouragement I needed to pursue my undercover operation. 📖

[@MKR5210]

Ah you must have read the real fairy tales not the Disney based sanitised versions 😁

[@autophyte]

"Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"--Voltaire. So true of the U.S. at present.

[@kennethadams5796]

Fascist 101

[@spanky7277]

You forgot Fascism . Confederacy

[@MissyGail4eva]

ฅ^•ﻌ◕^ฅ..."Fon•ced•er•ac•ism" (n.) Fascism for Confederate Loyalists who can't quite understand that Hitler's Nazis, like themselves, would (nor by definition could) ever be Communists.…ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ

[@cleoxo2566]

Seeing this is truly heartbreaking.

[@chipmunktubetop]

If you are comfortable when discussing slavery, you aren't doing it right.

[@diannafreespirit]

Mehdi is rapidly becoming my favorite MSNBC host.

[@Brock1925]

Might be to good a host for MSNBC.

[@NerdNest83]

@@KimMarie1966 Wish they'd re-hire Keith Olbermann

[@aurora_occidentalis2248]

He does have a certain appeal... to the naive and gullible.

[@diannafreespirit]

@@aurora_occidentalis2248 You must have him mixed up with someone from Fox .

[@aurora_occidentalis2248]

@@diannafreespirit A video about book burning where not a single book is burned, brought to us by the people who cancelled Dr. Seuss and Christopher Columbus. Nope, that's pure MSNBC.

[@wabinagi]

What is wrong with people! Have you all gone Mad!

[@stardust4987]

Thats what Nazi's did.

[@panthera50]

FACISM : first they erase your history. Then they erase you. 😡

[@michaeldudash2413]

That hillbilly beard is shocking and traumatized kids far more than any book

[@finnfan33]

😂😂😂

[@suehowie152]

Oh stop it..

[@JSkyGemini]

Right?

[@MsAmazon2u]

Love your reporting. Must admit I turn it off when the "talking heads" show up.

[@annettehunter9743]

1930's Germany is now 2021 USA

[@omaha2pt]

Watching this from Europe. This gives me a strange feeling of "deja vu".

[@gertrudelaronge6864]

This is a tipping point for our Nation.

[@GusCraft460]

I’ve worked in the classroom, and you literally cannot run a school without SEL. It stands for social emotional learning, and it is about teaching kids things like crying doesn’t get you what you want and solve problems with words not fists. It’s always been a part of schooling, but now it involves a lot fewer beatings.

[@mariag.8242]

I hope schools also teach that crying when you’re sad is normal and ok - and if the crying child needs something to reassure or comfort them, I hope teachers provide it. Your version of SEL sounds like “Don’t express your emotions”

[@GusCraft460]

@@mariag.8242 I was giving an incredibly abbreviated explanation of what it is. I personally teach kids that crying is natural, and I explain to them that tears contain some of the chemicals that make you feel sad, so crying physically gets rid of sadness. It’s just part of the way our bodies work. There’s no shame in performing a natural function of your body. My favorite SEL thing to explain is that when two kids get in a fight, the last kid to do something like say an insult or throw a punch is the one who gets in trouble, and whoever gets in trouble loses the fight. So if someone starts a fight with them the best way to win that fight is to come come to a teacher so that the one who started it gets in trouble and loses, not them. Another common lesson that I’ve had to teach younger kids is the importance of not lying. You would be surprised at how many kids were never told the story of the boy who cried wolf.

[@ryancook8549]

Robert Burris: "... that could really traumatize a kid if they just check out a book..." *routinely traumatizes his own school-aged child by sporting a 6" pube goatee*

[@MKR5210]

Just pause on him and look at the picture, a weirdly beared religious extremist sitting in front of the symbol of his faith while espousing forcing his views on everyone else..... Remind you of anything?? I'll tell you what it doesn't remind me of... Jesus!!!

[@barrylyndongurley]

Thomas Jefferson once said, " If a country expects to remain ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. " I believe we've long since crossed that point now and am really not sure we can ever turn this around now in time to save it.

[@euniceransfer7873]

Then we must teach our children the truth about our nation.

[@WinstonSmith24]

I agree. Teach them the history of the racist Democrat Party,

[@georgelayton6641]

@@WinstonSmith24 ^^And here is why.

[@AngelRodriguez-zt6nv]

What happened with the last generation 😕

[@MarkSiefert]

“Right Wing American Authoritarianism.” Please, stop pulling your punches and call it what it is: “FASCISM.”

[@randibgood]

Now, you know good and we'll that's what the left is. They are also communist, marxist, socialist, etc. They use those terms interchangeably, because apparently none of them have access to a dictionary. They don't know Fascism while it's leading them around by their noses. First sentence was sarcasm, btw! Lol

[@peterpain6625]

@@randibgood I love the label "fascist antifa" when used by the far right ;) It's kinda poetic. Yet desperately stupid :D

[@randibgood]

@@peterpain6625 Completely stupid. Shows they have not actually looked to see what the name actually means! They are just ridiculous.

[@peterpain6625]

@@randibgood Also an all-time-classic is "leftist" from the trump cultists or GOP followers ;) Calling the center-right Demoncrats "leftist" only goes to show how far the GOP and the Trump cult has gone to the far right. It's ridiculous...

[@randibgood]

@@peterpain6625 I agree 100%. It is amazing that there is such a large percentage of the population that are still falling for his con. I'm truly afraid that they don't believe this country can turn into 1930's Germany. He ticks so many of Hitler's boxes it's terrifying.