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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

suegeo

(2,809 posts)
8. Heinrich Heine
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.

rurallib

(63,156 posts)
4. Steve King country
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
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.

suegeo

(2,809 posts)
9. One more rec, you guys, and this post
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:09 PM
Oct 2018

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

suegeo

(2,809 posts)
11. Thank you for the support
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.

suegeo

(2,809 posts)
14. GW Bush His self appointed Tom Dorr
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 09:02 PM
Oct 2018

Iowa's Tom Dorr, Undersecretary of Agriculture for Rural Development,

GWB, the crime family

progressoid

(50,713 posts)
18. On the plus side, Orange City has a Pride event!!
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 11:45 PM
Oct 2018

That's kind of amazing considering the environment there.

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