"Also destroyed were the works of Heinrich Heine, a writer of Jewish descent, who a century earlier had foreshadowed the hell to come: 'Where they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people.'"

#Trump #Republicans #libraries #BookBans #LGBTQ #Tennessee #Nazis #Hitler #BookBurning
/5

"One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters."

~ Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims

#Trump #Republicans #libraries #BookBans #LGBTQ #Tennessee
/1

https://popular.info/p/tennessee-public-libraries-close

"Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge."
https://popular.info/p/tennessee-public-libraries-close

"One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with #LGBTQ themes or characters. Hargett suggested that libraries that made such books available to children were violating federal and state law."

#Books #BookBans #Censorship #Libraries #Tennessee #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"Also destroyed were the works of Heinrich Heine, a writer of Jewish descent, who a century earlier had foreshadowed the hell to come: 'Where they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people.'"

#Trump #Republicans #libraries #BookBans #LGBTQ #Tennessee #Nazis #Hitler #BookBurning
/5

"Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann, Sigmund Freud and Wal-ther Rathenau, Stefan Zweig, Erich Maria Remarque, and Hermann Hesse were among the authors whose names were read aloud in a litany of protest against those who defied 'the national will to live.' The mob threw hundreds of volumes — seized from libraries, synagogues, and churches — onto the massive fire."

#Trump #Republicans #libraries #BookBans #LGBTQ #Tennessee #Nazis #Hitler #BookBurning
/4

"On the evening of May 10, 1933, the first day of the summer semester, students and professors joined members of the local Sturmabeilung around a bonfire at the Opernplatz in the shadows of the Humboldt monument."

~ Charles Marsh, Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (NY: Knopf, 2014), p. 174, on the bonfire of books the Nazis organized in Berlin in May 1933

#Trump #Republicans #libraries #BookBans #LGBTQ #Tennessee #Nazis #Hitler #BookBurning
/3

"Hargett suggested that libraries that made such books available to children were violating federal and state law. Some libraries have closed for days so staff could focus on weeding out prohibited volumes."

#Trump #Republicans #libraries #BookBans #LGBTQ #Tennessee
/2

"One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters."

~ Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims

#Trump #Republicans #libraries #BookBans #LGBTQ #Tennessee
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https://popular.info/p/tennessee-public-libraries-close

"Banned Books Week is being quietly banned in public libraries across the US. This is a political choice in an era where libraries continue to claim being "not political."--Kelly Jensen

#BannedBooksWeek #BookBans #Libraries #Reading #FreedomToRead

https://bookriot.com/banning-banned-books-week/

"Banned Books Week is being quietly banned in public libraries across the US. This is a political choice in an era where libraries continue to claim being "not political."--Kelly Jensen

#BannedBooksWeek #BookBans #Libraries #Reading #FreedomToRead

https://bookriot.com/banning-banned-books-week/