Combatting 'Hate' in Germany is 'Outsourced' to the Amadeu Antonio Stiftung Whose Leader once Spied on Fellow GDR Citizens and Ratted Out Jews to the Communists
They should put out a list of all "Entartete buchen", so we know what to avoid reading, if you know what I mean.
Not throwing rocks, Sweden is much the same and can be considered a leader in the field of spying on your population using semi-legal groups and individuals - there is a huge informal network of "Batik-Hexen" trawling the net (swedish sites only, as they are menopausal age and their english is... not very good) for anything they deem hateful. Such as posting references to the state's own investigations if the result is "racist" et c.
There's something inside some people that gives them almost sexual pleasure being spies, sneaks and snoops.
That last line, about the 'pleasure' some people get, is, sadly, so true. We use the term 'Blockwart' in German, which refers to the Nazi party appointee 'overseeing' (ratting out) those who do not conform; the Nazis did the same in concentration camps, as did the Communists.
As regards the first line about banning books, there is, of course, no need to apply the same surely perceived to be as 'crude' methods as the better-known totalitarian nightmare regimes of the 20th century. The West uses the notion described by Orwell: memory-holing.
Here, it fallsto librarians to memory-hole books. Children's books following the modern narrative line the shelves, classical tales from all over the world are put on a cart in the lobby for 1:-/apiece - those not sold gets the Fahrenheit 451-treatment.
Curiously, non-narrative compliant fact-books seem never to appear on those carts, they just disappear on after another.
Recently, I found "Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland" by Heine on the cart in our local municipal library. The copy was no more than 3-4 years old, if that. There's a theme or trend or pattern in what goes on the cart, what is put on the shelf and what is bought by the library.
Example: some years back jewish comedian and writer Aron Flam wrote a rather comrehensive layman's book about the swedish Socialist Democrats party's co-operation with NSDAP and brought to light things about the collaboration between them (not that it's ever been secret as such, it's just not been part of the regular curriculums or common discourse; the "official" version is that the Socialist Democrats were staunch anti-nazis and nati-racists sinceinception, which is 180 degrees from the truth).
A lot of librarians signed a petition calling for the book to be banned, copies to be siezed and burned and people borrowing it or asking for it be registered. Then the state attackedhim, saying his usage of a symbol from the war (a blue and yellow striped tiger with the slogan "En svensk tiger/A swede keeps silent", referring to not blabbing to potential spies) on the cover was copyright/IP-infringement.
Flam had contacted the rights-holder in advance and had gotten oral permission. They waited until the book was printed so as to increase the financial hit for him. After a lot of back and forth and a court case, he won, sort of, in no small amount due to articles highlighting the irony that a socialist party is trying to burn books by a jewish author...
...ostensibly to "fight racism, revisionims and right-wing extremism."
Then again, a large part of party leadership were nazis in all but name in the 1930s. Allan Vought, who was to become minister of defence in the 1950s, wrote a book titled "Racial biology and socialism" (eugenics is generally called 'racial biology/rasbiologi' in swedish) in 1925, detailing and suggesting how the "stock" meaning the people was to be improved.
Sorry if this ran a bit long, but background is necessary I feel, due to the Socialist Party's 70 years of revisionist history.
There is no need to apologise for long-ish arguments.
The librarians' role is very opaque and intransparent--the story you tell is quite interesting, in particular as regards most of the fake history taught in schools and universities.
My gut feeling is that there's nothing to gain/win by speaking out about anything; standards and levels are in free-fall, and there's literally nothing anyone can do on the societal level.
Mind you, the 'conservatives' have also bought into these lies, mainly because for the above-mentioned reasons. If they'd want to do anything, they could, possibly, do so--but the main levers are on the local level, perhaps in federal nations (unlike, say, the Nordic countries).
This is how a parasite worms its way through its host!!! Anti-Semantics of epic proportions!!! I call this group "Zio-Nazis" for lack of a better moniker, as they borrow, bastardize and manipulate to their own and absolute benefit with all disregard to anyone else!!!
If we could only organize and target our puking!
I suppose that would be a good first step.
After the name-calling and deserved outrage, the much harder work of organising etc. begins.
They should put out a list of all "Entartete buchen", so we know what to avoid reading, if you know what I mean.
Not throwing rocks, Sweden is much the same and can be considered a leader in the field of spying on your population using semi-legal groups and individuals - there is a huge informal network of "Batik-Hexen" trawling the net (swedish sites only, as they are menopausal age and their english is... not very good) for anything they deem hateful. Such as posting references to the state's own investigations if the result is "racist" et c.
There's something inside some people that gives them almost sexual pleasure being spies, sneaks and snoops.
That last line, about the 'pleasure' some people get, is, sadly, so true. We use the term 'Blockwart' in German, which refers to the Nazi party appointee 'overseeing' (ratting out) those who do not conform; the Nazis did the same in concentration camps, as did the Communists.
As regards the first line about banning books, there is, of course, no need to apply the same surely perceived to be as 'crude' methods as the better-known totalitarian nightmare regimes of the 20th century. The West uses the notion described by Orwell: memory-holing.
Here, it fallsto librarians to memory-hole books. Children's books following the modern narrative line the shelves, classical tales from all over the world are put on a cart in the lobby for 1:-/apiece - those not sold gets the Fahrenheit 451-treatment.
Curiously, non-narrative compliant fact-books seem never to appear on those carts, they just disappear on after another.
Recently, I found "Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland" by Heine on the cart in our local municipal library. The copy was no more than 3-4 years old, if that. There's a theme or trend or pattern in what goes on the cart, what is put on the shelf and what is bought by the library.
Example: some years back jewish comedian and writer Aron Flam wrote a rather comrehensive layman's book about the swedish Socialist Democrats party's co-operation with NSDAP and brought to light things about the collaboration between them (not that it's ever been secret as such, it's just not been part of the regular curriculums or common discourse; the "official" version is that the Socialist Democrats were staunch anti-nazis and nati-racists sinceinception, which is 180 degrees from the truth).
A lot of librarians signed a petition calling for the book to be banned, copies to be siezed and burned and people borrowing it or asking for it be registered. Then the state attackedhim, saying his usage of a symbol from the war (a blue and yellow striped tiger with the slogan "En svensk tiger/A swede keeps silent", referring to not blabbing to potential spies) on the cover was copyright/IP-infringement.
Flam had contacted the rights-holder in advance and had gotten oral permission. They waited until the book was printed so as to increase the financial hit for him. After a lot of back and forth and a court case, he won, sort of, in no small amount due to articles highlighting the irony that a socialist party is trying to burn books by a jewish author...
...ostensibly to "fight racism, revisionims and right-wing extremism."
Then again, a large part of party leadership were nazis in all but name in the 1930s. Allan Vought, who was to become minister of defence in the 1950s, wrote a book titled "Racial biology and socialism" (eugenics is generally called 'racial biology/rasbiologi' in swedish) in 1925, detailing and suggesting how the "stock" meaning the people was to be improved.
Sorry if this ran a bit long, but background is necessary I feel, due to the Socialist Party's 70 years of revisionist history.
There is no need to apologise for long-ish arguments.
The librarians' role is very opaque and intransparent--the story you tell is quite interesting, in particular as regards most of the fake history taught in schools and universities.
My gut feeling is that there's nothing to gain/win by speaking out about anything; standards and levels are in free-fall, and there's literally nothing anyone can do on the societal level.
Mind you, the 'conservatives' have also bought into these lies, mainly because for the above-mentioned reasons. If they'd want to do anything, they could, possibly, do so--but the main levers are on the local level, perhaps in federal nations (unlike, say, the Nordic countries).
This is how a parasite worms its way through its host!!! Anti-Semantics of epic proportions!!! I call this group "Zio-Nazis" for lack of a better moniker, as they borrow, bastardize and manipulate to their own and absolute benefit with all disregard to anyone else!!!
Oh, well, I suppose certain people will weasel their way through life no matter who is in charge.
“May you live in interesting times”- old chinese curse always timely.