Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Culture Wars: Why book bans are trending in the US | DW News" video.

There are NO book bans in the U.S. As a free agent, you can purchase or obtain any book you want. Books that are structured with ideological content, and intended to separate children from the their parents, are dangerous, and require moderation and balance. Germans, especially, should understand that.
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You've got it backwards, the mark of a true progressive.
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Nonsense, "real history", by whose definition? Teachers in Germany taught "real history" in 1934, the same way "real history" is being taught in Russia today. The "State" should be responsible to parents, not the other way around. I would think GERMANS would not have forgotten their own "real history" so soon.
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Yes, it's not the books, it's the method, and that's the issue, it's the new framework for teaching which is dangerous and requires mediation and balance. Parents must be involved.
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@Roderickdl Easy access to these books online, the freedom comes from parental action, not from the school. Any parent in America may obtain the book and teach it, that's FREEDOM.
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Yes, in 1934 Germany teachers felt the same way, teach the children "forward thinking" regardless of the parents. Perhaps that's a history you failed to read and understand. I have not.
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Banning books in the U.S. has be a VERY RARE and then only to a VERY FEW books, and even those made their way in to bookstores and people's homes. Henry Miller is a good example, his "Tropic of Cancer" was banned in 1938 because of sexual content, but that did not stop it from coming to America wrapped in brown paper from Europe, the ban was lifted in 1961 and even used in a Seinfeld episode where Jerry fails to return it to his high school library. This issue is not about books or history, but framework and methodology. Why adults think they can shape the moral lives of their children with just books is beyond my understanding.
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Good advice to an 8-year-old, yeah, right. Children between 3-12 are best served not by "history lessons", but exercising the developmental stages necessary for maturation. The goal should be to successfully maturate children, not indoctrinate them into ideology. Indoctrination rarely takes anyway, and that's the "history lesson" we adults should "learn" from. George Santayana was not talking to children with the quote of his you, in fact, misquoted.
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"current state of Racism" is a myth, asserted by ideologues like you. Didn't you get that Stalin and Mao failed?
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Really. so when the wall came down there was no difference between West German and East German people in regard to how they treat each other. REALLY?
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History does not repeat, but DNA does. Your quote is old and irrelevant based on current knowledge of the human brain.
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@user-xq4st9ie7r More like the 1920s, when the majority of the National Socialist movement was made up of teachers who wanted to separate children from the parents to create a "new" human built for the future, a future they believed in like a religion. In that way it is very much like Weimar in the late 1920s.
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What "current ideology" are you talking about? We've got on ongoing discussion on all forms of culture in America, it's a battle, people get hurt, but it is ongoing, not settled.
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Yes, the post-modern, post-truth ideologues like you are the true "racists", and completely oblivious to their false consciousness about what it means to be human. You live for "reformation" and "counter-reformation", it's you reason for living, more's the pity.
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@jennychurchill2716 It's not about "history", no one is in denial, the question is to whether the State or the parents are foremost responsible for what children are taught. I'd think Germans would be more knowledgeable about their own history on that subject.
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I think adults, and on both sides, forget what it was like to be a child in school, and what their actual priorities and attention were focused on. I believe you are correct, these so-called children's books are written for adults, not children.
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These books are not BANNED, and easily available to anyone who wants one. Please read the First Amendment, it does not apply to schools, never has.
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These books are not banned or burned, ironic, apparently your view of history is narrow and incomplete. 1920's Weimar Germany had running street battles between many factions, including National Socialists against Communists, some similarities there, but not in the politics, only in human nature.
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@chadgaston8615 And why is that wrong, considering German history. The law is not so strict, you can deny what you wish, just keep it out of publication. I think it is wrong to make it a crime, but then I'm an American citizen.
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@oddvardmyrnes9040 There have been academic studies on the politics of teachers, both in K-12 and higher education. In college, those who go into sociology and education identify as left in numbers that reach 70%, that group graduates and become teachers in K-12 and administrators at school who are responsible for hiring practices, including demanding DEI statements be written by incoming teachers. Overall, teachers skew a bit left of center, but in the two disciplines which focus on education and behavior, they skew far to the left. This is a problem Check out Jonathon Haidt. In America the biggest challenge is attracting MEN to K-12 teaching positions, it is out of balance, and is a disservice to young males, the current outcomes makes this self-evident.
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@oddvardmyrnes9040 "poverty issue", spoken like a true old-school Marxist. The "poverty" of today is nothing like the "poverty" of 100 years ago, so makes no sense to me.
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"Mass Hysteria". Please, most of the burning was for the media, not on any grand scale, that's nonsense, just go to any comic book convention, although sometimes rare, comic books from that era are not rare, because they were not "burned" in some mass event. You are incorrect. My favorite riot/burning was held at the end of a major league baseball game in Chicago 1979, it was called, "Disco Demolition Night". Your narrow view of history is the true danger in any classroom, hope you are NOT a teacher.
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Exactly, and the proof of the incoherence of race being imbued in everything is in the two other comments to yours. They believe abstract thought itself is normalized racism, so math needs to be purged with anti-racist ideology. It's become a religion, there's even a book out called the "antiracist baby" by Kendi. It's become an article of faith. Germans should understand the dangers of that, remembering their own history.
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@geraldmeehan8942 Why? I thought children were blind to differences and naturally "inclusive"?
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@Bee.Holder You forgot the removal of Dr. Suess from school libraries, too.
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@rodturner6759 The GOP did not remove Dr. Suess or Mark Twain from school libraries, that came from extremes on the other side. No one is denying "actual events", quite the contrary, as the "real history" being asserted by the "antiracists" leave out what does not conform to their dogma. Did you know the first Indigenous Person to be Vice-President of the United States, Charles Curtis, was a member of the GOP?
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Yes, it's not about "books", it's about the framework and method teachers are now using to indorenate children into an imagined "new person of the future", Germans tried that in 1934, how soon they forget.
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@vylbird8014 Wow, what nonsense, UK traded more slaves than the U.S., the slaves were held in the Caribbean, not within its borders, and segregation was certainly part of life in those former slave holdings. In fact, Jamaica is currently seeking reparation from the UK. Also, the "Atlantic Slave Trade" was ended by the U.S. in 1808.
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George Santayana was naïve in his view of human nature, but you have also miss-quoted him, and out of context. George also did not understand what we now do about the human brain. History does not repeat itself, but DNA does.
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