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March 14, 2012
Dante Laughs: "Ban the Divine Comedy? Really?"
The paradox of modern so-called "liberalism" -- which has nothing at all to do with actual liberalism --is that if they had their "open-minded" way, the world and all of our perspectives would be forced into a most unnatural narrowness. The very same people who understood that it was a bad and reactionary thing to burn Beatles albums have themselves become reactionary ideologues who will betray the foundational ideas of the nation and its constitution in order to enforce conformity to their own sensibilities, leaving no room for individual thinking, dissent or, yeah, personal conscience. -- « The Anchoress
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 14, 2012 2:57 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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The left has never had a problem burning books. While the leftist government of Adolf Hitler was the most successful at it, the impulse to erase speech and ideas they do not like runs deep throughout the socialist DNA. After all, the existence of "bad" ideas makes it a much harder slog to acquire absolute power, which is the kind of power they crave.
Posted by: Michael Gersh at March 14, 2012 3:12 PM
Ban Dante? Between Dante and Petrarch, they defined the Italian Language. Everybody loves The Inferno. Some people find comfort and peace in Il Paradiso.
Might as well ban Shakespeare and the KJB.
Posted by: John A. Fleming at March 14, 2012 4:45 PM
Might as well ban Shakespeare and the KJB.
Is there any reason to think they aren't on the list? They are doubleplusungood.
Posted by: Cris at March 14, 2012 8:16 PM
I am heartily in favor of such moonbat groups making these kinds of outrageous proposals by the boatload.
Why?
Because they keep adding more and more groups of people who are pissed off at them, including what otherwise might have been "fellow travelers."
Almost every classics scholar, almost all of whom wouldn't vote Republican on a bet, will oppose the above idea vehemently.
The more such purveyors of "uncivil rights" make such insane pronouncements, the more and more the numbers of the disenchanted grow.
Posted by: Don Rodrigo at March 15, 2012 9:54 AM