jimmayyy said:
lets simplify things - a book (mein kampf), which, we have all agreed promotes violence, sexism and racism and was used by a certain group of extremists to justify the slaughter of millions of innocent people has been banned in a certain country, and no one has a problem with that.
70 years later, same country, very similar book, similar global climate of wars, fear, oppression etc etc some bloke questions why current book isn't banned and its a big deal?
* The book was banned after the slaughter of said millions, not pre-emptively, and not for purposes of preventing said slaughter (as it had already happened; to the best of my knowledge Germans don't have time machines yet). Seeing as you acknowledged that you're having trouble keeping up, I'll spell it out for you.
"Hey, this book might kind of offend people a bit, seeing as 70 odd years ago it had a bit to do with a lot of people dying. Maybe life will be better if we restrict its distribution here"
vs
"Hey, this book seems like it's stirring up some nasties, we better ban it before people die as a direct result of its availability!"
Of course, even this comparison pretends that they're in the same league, and I really fail to see how they are. I would imagine that very few people who live by Mein Kampf (so we're talking maybe eight people total in the first place) manage to take away from it a positive message which allows them to be a functional, pleasant and stable member of society. This is in contrast with muslims, because I figure there must be at least oh I don't know, thirty of them who don't want to spend all their time killing infidels and shit, and who seem to fit reasonably well in our society.
jimmayyy said:
you under estimate the power of both books. extremist muslims use direct quotes from the koran to justify terrorist actions. extremist nazis used direct quotes from mein kampf to justify terrorist actions. how aren't they similar?
* I'd imagine it's actually direct quotes from Allah (lol) and Hitler himself, respectively. The book doesn't seem to me to be as central to the process as you imply.
* Each are available widely on the Internet. This makes such bans kind of pointless and plain stupid, just in case the idea of banning a book for being evil itself wasn't stupid enough in the first place.
jimmayyy said:
the point im trying to make is people allow double standards because it has to do with the holocaust, which is still such a touchy subject or because it has to do with religion like the koran, which is apparently unfuckwithable.
Holocaust... and... Religion... I see the difference, do you?
I'm all for writing off religions, but I think there are probably better ways to go about it than to pretend that the holocaust and muslims are analogous. Even if we roll with the assumption that what you meant to say was "I think muslims and nazis are analogous", so that we're at least comparing two groups of people as opposed to comparing a religion to an event, we're left with the conclusion that there are probably far more muslims around who have yet to kill anyone (or condone this killing), than there ever were "innocent" nazis (ignoring coercion and what-not, we're already on enough of a tangent).
I'd never actually agree that a book should be banned due to the way that stupid people respond when they read it, but I'll tell you what, I'll agree that I could at least see reason in the suggestion that it be banned after
all people who follow its word have conspicuously and systematically killed off several million people within the space of half a decade or so. Until then, I don't think we're really comparing the same thing at all.
jimmayyy said:
if extremist muslim terrorist isn't one of the top concerns of the world right now (keeping in mind the number of people it has already killed and will continue to kill), i don't know what planet you are living on, pal.
That's not actually what I said. What I'm talking about is the fact that regarding fucking angry muslims, there are probably bigger problems than the koran. Like the bit where real life, actual people, seem to think violence like that is ok, even if they did read it in their story books.
Seems we'd be better off dealing with those who have a disposition towards being problematic after story time, rather than banning the book and ruining the fun for everyone.