We are now at the book burning stage...

[Dwarvenhobble]

Yeah, nah. Thing is The Nazis ARE the enemy.
They were the enemy back in the 40s when they ravaged through my country and half of the Europe.
They were the enemy after WWII when they're hiding in plain sight, unbothered in South America, in the US Army research centers or in the administration ranks of newly formed Federal Republic of Germany.

When it comes to war criminals i preffer Simon Wiesenthal approach, rather that idiotic "forgive and forget".

At what point do you end though?

How far do you go? Just the leadership? Because that's what happened. Those below the main leadership? Those below them? The section commanders? The squad commanders? The regular troops on the ground?

'Tisn't.

True because after WW I it was massive economic sanctions, debt, restrictions on Germany and not marking the graves of the dead just dumping dead germans into mass graves.

The proposition of "Making examples of the Nazis" would probably go far beyond merely that more towards far more than the few executions that were done and depending on where lines get drawn in terms of hunting them down could decimate the population of Germany because of just how many men ended up in the Nazi army. I doubt many people in Germany would be very happy with the idea of a rather large scale imprisonment or execution of the populous.

 

[thebobmaster]

At what point do you end though?

How far do you go? Just the leadership? Because that's what happened. Those below the main leadership? Those below them? The section commanders? The squad commanders? The regular troops on the ground?




True because after WW I it was massive economic sanctions, debt, restrictions on Germany and not marking the graves of the dead just dumping dead germans into mass graves.

The proposition of "Making examples of the Nazis" would probably go far beyond merely that more towards far more than the few executions that were done and depending on where lines get drawn in terms of hunting them down could decimate the population of Germany because of just how many men ended up in the Nazi army. I doubt many people in Germany would be very happy with the idea of a rather large scale imprisonment or execution of the populous.

Not all of the leadership got punished for it. And I'm not just talking about the ones who evaded justice like Mengele. I'm more specifically referring to people like Wehrner Von Braun, who helped the Nazis develop the V-2 rocket, then after the war was secretly smuggled to the US to continue working on rocket science for the U.S. military before being folded into NASA in the 60's.

 

[Dwarvenhobble]

Not all of the leadership got punished for it. And I'm not just talking about the ones who evaded justice like Mengele. I'm more specifically referring to people like Wehrner Von Braun, who helped the Nazis develop the V-2 rocket, then after the war was secretly smuggled to the US to continue working on rocket science for the U.S. military before being folded into NASA in the 60's.

But were they true believers in the cause or just people whose work was used by the regime and they just wanted to build their work and not care about the uses as much?

Like plenty of people have not stopped to ask how their work could be perverted they only cared for finishing it and with most work being able to be perverted one way or another it's kinda not a clear cut line where the "You should have known better" line is because there has to be a degree of "Well we made it hoping it wouldn't be used for evil".

 

[tstorm823]

CRT is a graduate studies theory for lawyers.

It isn't that. Critical legal studies is a graduate level subject for lawyers. Critical race theory has a historical basis in critical legal studies, but has not been limited to only the field of law for decades, and has instead taken on the original critical theory's position that any and all aspects of society are subject to its gaze.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

On the one hand, I get the need for, maybe, kids not being exposed to extremely explicit or disturbing materials before they can handle it, on the other hand, some scars add character and a sex scene here or there has nothing on the trauma that Animorphs can inflict on a 10 year old. And, I mean, if we're talking about high school libraries, I got to read a fascinating account about how the nukes would instantly vaporize me, everybody I knew or cared about, and damn near everybody on the planet in exhaustive detail written by a think tank envisioning the results of a nuclear war

Might not seem like a big deal now, but I was old enough to run nuke drills, so...

On the third had, "sexually explicit" can just mean "doesn't hate gay people" to these weirdos, so...

Like, seriously:

...about a book involving three gay kids trying to overcome terrible shit happening to them. It's not exactly Emergence/Metamorphosis is what I'm saying

I was a big fan of Animorphs and it's only now, years later, that I understand just how fucking dark that series is. One book is mostly about one of the characters getting tortured, as just one example.