The problem with burning books...

[MrScorpio]

Is that, if the idea gets to be too popular, it won't be too long before they're burning people.


Paraphrasing, of course.

Whoever said it first was a freaking genius.

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. Whoever said that is a master of outrageous hyperbole

n/t

[MrScorpio]

4. You betcha!

[Cronus Protagonist]

5. Sorry you invoked Godwin's law so soon

I was hoping the thread would last longer.

[MrScorpio]

6. You were fishing for it..

And I bit!

At least I used historical evidence this time.

[Cronus Protagonist]

7. lol I certainly wasn't fishing for it

I had no idea that was to which you were referring. Now I know. But books are burned every single day here in America, in home fires, sure, but also at the book manufacturers where they burn or trash thousands of books every single day with nary a twitter about it too!

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. "I had no idea that was to which you were referring."

That, i believe. Because those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

"...at the book manufacturers where they burn or trash thousands of books every single day with nary a twitter about it too!"

Uh huh - cuz every time overstocks are destroyed the company is making a political statement.

[bobbieinok]

11. Heine said it in mid 1800s; 20th cent nazis burned books then Jews

So it was factual statement about the human potential, not hyperbole.

[Warpy]

2. Heinrich Heine

whose books were burned by the Nazis, who later burned people. He wrote it in 1821, making him a rare prophet.

Damn fundies are always burning something: books, sheet music, musical instruments, dancing shoes, pretty dresses, hair ribbons, and anything else that offends their narrow, humorless, Philistine, and bitter sensibilities.

Odd how trying to create a heaven on earth by consigning things that offend you to ashes usually manages to create hell on earth.

[MrScorpio]

3. Thanks

He was spot on

[pinboy3niner]

8. Damn Skippy! :)

[ProgressiveProfessor]

9. As if this was as simple as a book burning...