Iowa

suegeo

(2,809 posts) Tue Oct 23, 2018, 07:30 PM Oct 2018

NW Iowa Fascist burns public library Children's books

Because he hates gay people.

https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/nw-iowa-religious-activist-burns-lgbtq-library-books-in-protest/article_0ae4c328-5814-5674-bb8d-6120a9a7d020.html#tracking-source=home-trending

Paul Dorr, a northwest Iowa religious activist, released a Facebook Live video Friday in which he burns four LGBTQ-themed books from the Orange City Public Library. A still from the video is shown, in which he throws Suzanne and Max Lang's "Families, Families, Families!" into a burning barrel.

What's the saying, if they'll burn books, they'll burn people

Madness.

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NW Iowa Fascist burns public library Children's books (Original Post) suegeo Oct 2018 OP

They burned books in Germany under Hitler. kimbutgar Oct 2018 #1

By Heine? Quote's on Goettingen memorial to Nazi book burning at U there bobbieinok Oct 2018 #2

Heinrich Heine suegeo Oct 2018 #8

Because Heine was Jewish, some Germans refused to accept that he was a great German poet bobbieinok Oct 2018 #12

Lise Meitner suegeo Oct 2018 #15

Also, White Rose Society suegeo Oct 2018 #16

Also, Neutral Milk Hotel suegeo Oct 2018 #17

People should replace the books tenfold. Croney Oct 2018 #3

Yep shenmue Oct 2018 #5

Steve King country rurallib Oct 2018 #4

Some of the posters gave me ideas of how to make this right Jake Stern Oct 2018 #6

Steve King, Trump, book burning what's next NW Iowa voters???? Spanish Inquisition?? IADEMO2004 Oct 2018 #7

One more rec, you guys, and this post suegeo Oct 2018 #9

Awful man irisblue Oct 2018 #10

Thank you for the support suegeo Oct 2018 #11

Christ on a trailer hitch, it's Tom Dorr's brother suegeo Oct 2018 #13

GW Bush His self appointed Tom Dorr suegeo Oct 2018 #14

On the plus side, Orange City has a Pride event!! progressoid Oct 2018 #18

kimbutgar

(23,165 posts)

1. They burned books in Germany under Hitler.

Reply to suegeo (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 07:38 PM

Oct 2018

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)

2. By Heine? Quote's on Goettingen memorial to Nazi book burning at U there

Reply to suegeo (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 07:39 PM

Oct 2018

suegeo

(2,809 posts)

8. Heinrich Heine

Reply to bobbieinok (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:08 PM

Oct 2018

https://curiosity.com/topics/heinrich-heines-quote-about-book-burning-eerily-predicted-the-holocaust-curiosity/

In 1823, Heinrich Heine wrote the words, "Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen," or "Where books are burned, in the end, people will also be burned." More than a century later in 1933, young Nazi students in Germany organized a nationwide book burning to eliminate foreign influence. As this quote eerily predicted, the mass murder of Jews in the Holocaust soon followed.

Remember the White Rose Society.

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)

12. Because Heine was Jewish, some Germans refused to accept that he was a great German poet

Reply to suegeo (Reply #8)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:59 PM

Oct 2018

suegeo

(2,809 posts)

15. Lise Meitner

Reply to bobbieinok (Reply #12)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 09:29 PM

Oct 2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner

suegeo

(2,809 posts)

16. Also, White Rose Society

Reply to bobbieinok (Reply #12)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 09:33 PM

Oct 2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose

suegeo

(2,809 posts)

17. Also, Neutral Milk Hotel

Reply to bobbieinok (Reply #12)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 09:34 PM

Oct 2018

Get yourself a copy of their music.

Croney

(4,867 posts)

3. People should replace the books tenfold.

Reply to suegeo (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 07:40 PM

Oct 2018

Can't he be charged with destruction of public property?

shenmue

(38,537 posts)

5. Yep

Reply to Croney (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 07:54 PM

Oct 2018

rurallib

(63,156 posts)

4. Steve King country

Reply to suegeo (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 07:47 PM

Oct 2018

Maybe JD Scholten should step in and replace those books and remind people that we don't burn books

Jake Stern

(3,145 posts)

6. Some of the posters gave me ideas of how to make this right

Reply to suegeo (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:03 PM

Oct 2018

Donate money to LGBTQ organizations and/or the ACLU in Dorr's name or establish the "Paul Dorr-OC Pride LGBTQ Bookshelf" at the Orange City Library.

IADEMO2004

(5,853 posts)

7. Steve King, Trump, book burning what's next NW Iowa voters???? Spanish Inquisition??

Reply to suegeo (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:06 PM

Oct 2018

suegeo

(2,809 posts)

9. One more rec, you guys, and this post

Reply to suegeo (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:09 PM

Oct 2018

makes it to the greatest page, where it can be seen by more people.

irisblue

(34,155 posts)

10. Awful man

Reply to suegeo (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:22 PM

Oct 2018

suegeo

(2,809 posts)

11. Thank you for the support

Reply to irisblue (Reply #10)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:28 PM

Oct 2018

Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one seeing these organized hate group actions. You give me support to know I'm not the only one.

I have had the "opportunity" to visit NW Iowa often. So, I can testify: This one guy isn't just one guy.

I wish I had written it down when I saw it, but there was a facebook group of these hateful nuts in NW Iowa. In Orange City, where there is a small Dutch-xian college.

And I'm seeing/hearing twitter messages, maybe here on DU, that Steve King (Fascist, NW IOWA) is a white nationalist?!

It's hard to keep up with the churning, but I swear, I've seen this stuff.