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The fact that Mein Kampf was mentioned so often in 2025 is saying something about the political climate lol..

Nice website though, I like it.

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I think 1984 is more of a sign of the times, and not just mentioned in the context of banned book threads

I was apparently 6% of the 1984 mentions.

Doing my part.

It would be even higher if we would add any string with "orwell" in it, since in 99% cases it's about the same idea and in the same context.

>I think 1984 is more of a sign of the times

Honestly given that the thing gets brought up about five times per day by absolutely anyone for any conceivable reason I think it's the opposite. The real dystopian picture of the future is getting hit on the head with a copy of 1984, forever.

The surveillance and censorship system being built around us is alarming.

It only takes one leadership failure to turn it into shackles.

There are no banned books in America. Not spending taxpayer money forcibly taken from citizens on books they disagree with for public school libraries is far from banning books.

If you are okay with a book indoctrinating kids with far left ideology, why not put in copies of far right books to balance it out?

No one wants kids indoctrinated in culture war garbage.

If you want to own a book, go buy it yourself.

Can you point me to one book banned by libraries that contains “far left ideology”? And one with “far right ideology” not found in libraries?

"The federal mafia" by Irwin Schiff is currently banned from sale in the USA

Maybe there's a german-language subset of comment threads where they discuss their struggles against the C++ standard.

It seems to have mainly come up in discussions about banned books, rather than discussions about popular fascist movements, so it might not be saying what most people would first assume.

Good catch, I didn’t read through the comments where it’s mentioned.

This comment is a helpful way to understand Mein Kampf and whether it means its readers are Nazis.

   graemep
  on 4/15/2025
   
  Mein Kampf IS a rant.
  I recommend people read it so you can understand how people like that think.

Not something I want anyone to see on my bookshelf though!

Depends on how spicy your friends are.

'spicy'?

I'm really trying so hard to understand how did you come up with this correlation.

The US has shifted to becoming an authoritarian fascist state. It’s not surprising that people reference another prominent authoritarian fascist manifesto.

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