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Do you consider someone racist because they read Mein Kampf? What if that same person read the communist manifesto?
I am being attacked in the politics section because I know which MK is the best read and understand...
then I often read books etc that are oppositional from my personal views. I hope it keeps me from being narrow-minded...
While these books do not change my views, it gives me a very different perspective. As for MK, maybe it would aid my understanding of Hitler/ Germany. No matter how much I read on that subject...still hard to comprehend how it all happened while the world watched...
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Do you consider someone racist because they read Mein Kampf? What if that same person read the communist manifesto?
I am being attacked in the politics section because I know which MK is the best read and understand...
Do you consider someone racist because they read Mein Kampf?What if that same person read the communist manifesto?
I am being attacked in the politics section because I know which MK is the best read and understand...
Well I'm black and no I wouldn't consider someone racist for reading it. Can't say I'd sit down with it on a park bench, though LOL. I actually considered reading MK, but people have said it's so poorly written it's not worth it. I can't tolerate a book like that....Someone I know thought "American History X" was racist and that is a GREAT movie & there's a point to the racism and language in the movie, they don't get that though. People don't have any sense anymore. *smh*
Stay out of the politics section, it's a pointless section, IMO. They just want to argue and badger each other, not actually discuss anything.
Well I'm black and no I wouldn't consider someone racist for reading it. Can't say I'd sit down with it on a park bench, though LOL. I actually considered reading MK, but people have said it's so poorly written it's not worth it. I can't tolerate a book like that....Someone I know thought "American History X" was racist and that is a GREAT movie & there's a point to the racism and language in the movie, they don't get that though. People don't have any sense anymore. *smh*
Stay out of the politics section, it's a pointless section, IMO. They just want to argue and badger each other, not actually discuss anything.
I've read Mein Kampf. I wouldn't consider anyone to be racist for reading it but if they believed it was anything other than a poorly written piece of garbage, I would.
I've read Mein Kampf. I wouldn't consider anyone to be racist for reading it but if they believed it was anything other than a poorly written piece of garbage, I would.
As I said I haven't read it...but why would someone be considered "racist" if they read the book and think it's 'poorly written garbage' if that's their opinion after reading it? Just not seeing how that translates into racism. There's a thread going on in entertainment section about the the movie "The Help." That would be like me saying anyone who didn't like the movie is 'racist.'
Do you consider someone racist because they read Mein Kampf? What if that same person read the communist manifesto?
I am being attacked in the politics section because I know which MK is the best read and understand...
I wouldn't but I have read and own a copy of the Eqyptian Book of the Dead. It is information, knowledge and a glimpse into someone else's life and culture as they see it.
Of course not. I read "Mein Kampf" and my Great Grand Father died escaping from Auschwitz and my Great Uncle spent years in various death camps ( he is a survivor). We even studied bits of it at school during History. I must admit I thought apart from the moral aspect of it though it was basically an incredibly written, badly argued piece of trash in literary terms and dull as ditch water. Not a book I would care to re-read.
Hitler was a far better orator than a writer. Whatever his skills may have been writing was certainly not one of them.
Knowledge is never a bad thing and it is rather difficult to criticise something in an informed manner if you haven't got the facts at your fingertips so sometimes books like MK have to be endured if you are going to gather a deeper understanding of certain issues.
I have read a lot of contentious and controversial books in my days, some proponents of slavery and colonialism and I am deeply opposed to both. Contemporary sources are often the only way to really get to the nub of some questions. You gain an insight into the minds of people who are so removed from your own way of thinking that it is almost impossible to understand what lies behind their beliefs.
If the profits from MK went to a Nazi organisation then that would be an issue but otherwise, knowledge is knowledge. It used to be that all profits of MK went to various charities , is this still the case ?
What makes someone racist is believing the crap in those books and trying to follow its precepts. A book is only a vessel for words, those words are meaningless until a human being decides to believe them.
I have read the Bible and many other Sacred texts and I am a staunch Atheist...
As I said I haven't read it...but why would someone be considered "racist" if they read the book and think it's 'poorly written garbage' if that's their opinion after reading it? Just not seeing how that translates into racism. There's a thread going on in entertainment section about the the movie "The Help." That would be like me saying anyone who didn't like the movie is 'racist.'
No, it wouldn't be like you saying anyone who didn't like the movie is racist. Mein Kampf is a racist book with a racist ideology. It also happens to be a poorly written book. There is no way to praise that book on the basis of either its quality of writing or its ideas, and if a reader's opinion is otherwise, I would bet on the reader being a member of, or a sympathizer of white supremacist racist type groups.
Do you consider someone racist because they read Mein Kampf? What if that same person read the communist manifesto?
I am being attacked in the politics section because I know which MK is the best read and understand...
Of course it doesn't mean they're racist. Studying history is necessary in order to prevent negative parts of it from happening again. If the entire German population had read Mein Kampf before supporting Hitler, I guarantee he wouldn't have been popular at all.
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