Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day agoIt used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books.message-squaremessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1193arrow-down129
arrow-up1164arrow-down1message-squareIt used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books.Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squaredaniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 hours agoNot necessarily. They could go to the store and burn all the stock of one particular book.
minus-squaredaniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 hours agoCitation provided https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 hours agoNot seeing where the books came from in any of the accounts of book burnings, but even if they’re in a bookstore, the publisher’s already got the money, as has the author. It’s all performative nonsense either way.
:shrug: Someone bought them.
Not necessarily. They could go to the store and burn all the stock of one particular book.
*citation needed
Citation provided
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings
Not seeing where the books came from in any of the accounts of book burnings, but even if they’re in a bookstore, the publisher’s already got the money, as has the author. It’s all performative nonsense either way.