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No, and it never was.
Huh. So Nazi symbols are, but not the autobiography of the biggest Nazi of all. Weird.
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No, and it never was.
Huh. So Nazi symbols are, but not the autobiography of the biggest Nazi of all. Weird.
Mein Kampf is not really an autobiography.
There are some very interesting things he says. For one thing, he analyzes the propaganda used against Germany during WWI and realizes that the propaganda that the German government used on its own people were weak. He admires how Britain portrayed the Germans as barbarians, which fortified the British soldier's resolve to fight harder against the Germans, whereas the German propaganda portrayed the British soldiers as weak and incompetent. He points out that when the German soldiers faced the ferocity of the British, they not only quaked but lost faith in the German government. He was an astute military tactician.I feel that I have a pretty good idea of the things hitler tried to convey. I just disagree with them and view them as a window into the mind of a deranged man instead of the justification for his actions.
They'll never get to see the dead parrot sketch.Crazy
Well this is nuts!
Texas prisons ban The Color Purple and Monty Python – but Mein Kampf is fine
So the Texas prison system is quite happy allowing Mein Kampf, whilst banning the likes of Monty Python!
His blitzkrieg attacks during WWII showed a brilliant military understanding. I would not be surprised if Mein Kampf is standard reading at West Point as all other military campaigns of history would read. It is up there the Art of War.
They'll never get to see the dead parrot sketch.
"What is or is not permissible in Texas prisons is largely decided by mailroom staff, the newspaper found. Content and imagery are only part of the criteria applied; many books are banned because their bindings or covers could be used to smuggle contraband. For obvious reasons, maps are also banned.
“Mein Kampf is on the approved list because it does not violate our rules,” said Jason Clark, TDCJ deputy chief of staff."
I am currently reading Mein Kampf and I find the story fascinating. His goal was to restore Germany as an independent nation and to defend it from the advance of Communism which is a Jewish creation: Karl Marx, Lenin and Trotsky were all Jews. His intention was not to kill Jews but communists, but all the communists in Germany were Jews. He definitely believed that the Germans were a superior race, which is nonsense, but he was not trying to take over the world as the allies portrayed.
I think if you add a b and another s to his last name he may be the one that authored the prison's policy.What about Alexandre Dumas?
I wonder whether Das Kapital is also available to prisoners?
I imagine so. I suppose it can always be introduced into prisons under the otherwise innocuous guise of 'economic philosophy.'
What if they found some sort of compromise?
He admits that he was an anti-semite. But why do you think I am defending him? Do you not consider it a matter of an open mind to see both sides of a story?
So, then you have read the book from cover to cover and know for certainty what you are saying? I hope so, I appreciate honest scholasticism.Yes, of course, but what you are saying is not accurate. And, although you should get all sides of the story that doesn't mean they are all on equal ethical or intellectual footing. Reading one book (and it was probably translated and long enough ago and in a different enough culture that the average person of today couldn't understand it easily) by Hitler himself, before he got into power is not getting in accurate picture. For obvious reasons.
However there actually are parts where he does discuss genocide and German expansion in Mein Kampf.
Sadly, a lot of American prisons already have many skinheads, neonazi's, etc. Hitler, himself in Mein Kampf describes how he because radicalized and it happens all the time. Radicalization, it doesn't just happen to some Muslims.
I don't think we should prohibit reading of literature. But it is very, very important that we also give everyone the tools for critical thinking and how to correctly evaluate what is factual and what is not.
So, then you have read the book from cover to cover and know for certainty what you are saying? I hope so, I appreciate honest scholasticism.
Yes. My family and church we're extremely anti semitic. They blame the world's ills on the devil and the "ACjews". As in "anti Christ Jews". Pretty disgusting. They think Yahweh used Hitler, among others to "rightly judge those that rejected his son." Unfortunately I'm familiar with prejudice and prejudicel writings.
But even if Mein Kampf, didn't say anything "too" egregious, so? If Saddam Hussain, wrote a book before he was in power we wouldn't turn to it to judge his rule. We would and do look at people's actions or lack of actions while in positions of power and control.