• Notyou@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I think the difference is if it’s the State burning the books because they are “dangerous” and the State doesn’t want you to read it then that speaks of fascism. If it is citizens/civilians burning a book, that they own, because of some personal desire to express themselves then it’s their expression.

    Maybe they are expressiomlns of hate, but a citizen expressing that is different than the State expressing that. One has more power over the other.

    • BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf
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      1 year ago

      The Nazi book burnings were conducted by the German Student Union initially, not the state. Just as it is in Florida, and just as it is here in this instance, book burnings are primarily perpetrated by ideologues, not the state.