WHO ELSE DESTROYS BOOKS?

From AlterNet:

Bloomberg's Bibliocide? Update on Confiscated "People's Library" Books

But when protesters returned, they were disgusted, finding trashed books, ruined laptops and much missing:

One of our librarians Zach came up with a partial list of what was taken (see below) and it’s looking like only a few boxes of books and our (destroyed) laptops and one chair were at Sanitation. Our people on the ground report that “A lot is destroyed . . . more may (or may not) be coming out of their giant trashpile at back of building.” But it’s obvious to me that by recklessly throwing the contents of the park into dumpsters, the NYPD and DSNY working under Bloomberg’s orders destroyed what we built. And that their claim that the library was “safely stored” was a lie.

A few hours later, it seemed like less than half the library was salvaged, much in awful condition.

More here.

I've been hearing for the last decade or so that the only way you can compare somebody or some group or some nation to the Nazis is if said person, group, or nation has killed six million Jews. Anything short of that and you're being an asshole.

Fuck that. The Holocaust is only the absolute worst thing the Nazis did, among many lesser, but still very noteworthy, evils. You know, like torturing prisoners. Or waging aggressive war. Or stoking race-hatred. Or burning books. All these things have been done in America in recent years. And all these things bring us uncomfortably close to being very much like the Nazis, minus, of course, killing six million Jews.

Personally, I'm of the humble opinion that if Americans are acting like Nazis, we should condemn such behavior, immediately and harshly. And yes, the word "Nazi" should be used, as frequently as possible. After all, Nazi Germany is understood across the political spectrum to be the most evil regime in human history. We don't want to be like them at all.

Saying that you can only condemn people for behaving like Nazis if and only if they've killed six million Jews essentially absolves the Nazis of all other crimes. And that's bullshit.

So Bloomberg's a fucking Nazi.

What are you gonna do? Sue me? Fuck off.



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