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Re:A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Ugly by SkipperCat on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @01:55PM (#29728424)
The horrible part is that we're teaching kids to destroy ideas that contradict our ethos instead of using our intellect to overcome them. You don't defeat fascism by killing all the fascists, you defeat it by showing people liberty and egalitarianism is superior.

Quick note, I'm not 100% against killing fascists. There's a time and a place for anything (eg: d-day).

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Re:A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Ugly by j_walter on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @02:14PM (#29728727)
I don't think they are saying the destroy it...but postpone access to it until people are mature enough to read it in context.

Careful what you say about killing fascists...using violence to squash an ideology you don't agree with is basically fascism. People calling themselves anti-fascist but attacking people who are exercising their right to protest something is extremely stupid and hypocritical.

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