Do you support book burning?

[OtterMan68]

Courtland VA conservative GOP Rabih Abuismail and Livingston GOP representative Kirk Twigg "I think we should throw those books in a fire," Abuismail said. Meanwhile, Twigg said he wanted to "see the books before we burn them so we can identify within our community that we are eradicating this bad stuff."

Missouri GOP candidate for Secretary of State has gone viral after she was shown burning LGBTQ-friendly books with a flamethrower. "These books come from a Missouri public library," Valentina Gomez said in a video posted to social media site X, formerly Twitter, "When I am in office, they will burn."

Nazis burning books

Yes, the Nazis had the right idea

No, book burning is a stupid idea and goes against what the US stands for

[MisterWack]

I don’t support banning books or burning of books, by doing so it only makes the books more likely to be paid attention to.
Especially Government Sanctioned book bans / burnings since people naturally criticize govt so, if the govt is hiding a thought, idea, person, belief, etc. then a lot of people would be curious then take it home.

[Alexandrubaschet08]

“It was just the prelude… Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people too.”

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

These prophetic words, penned by German Jewish Writer Heinrich Heine in 1821, became a chilling reality during the Nazi regime between 1933-1945.

[Anonymous]

Republicans love to cancel everything they disagree with. The constant government interference in our personal freedoms like this is basically the Communism they're always complaining about. The hypocrisy is strong.

[RebelinSteel]

It’s stupidity at its highest, it’s one thing to ban a book, quietly shred the ones printed. However public burning of books is what you get in places like Iran, Germany in the 1930’s, North Korea, Russia etc.

[Lliam]

Burning books for a public spectacle is sick. They obviously haven't real Fahrenheit 451. Idiots.

But it's not only Republicans who advocate censorship. Haven't Democrats/liberals advocated pulling books like Huckleberry Finn from libraries, or abridging them to remove politically correct language?