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KulakRevolt  4mo ago (anarchonomicon.com)   Edited 4mo ago   3411 thread views

The Anarchonomicon REAL Banned Book List

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Regime-banned books are in school libraries and on indigo bookshelves at eye level for children.

REAL banned books are often decades out of print, going for hundreds of dollars used on eBay, they've been disappeared by publishers and distributors in spite of interest and demand. Others have authors who've died or been imprisoned for their ideas, yet more have been removed from city or university-wide library systems so that their "Misinformation" and "Lies" do not poison impressionable scholars.

Yet more are suppressed algorithmically, not appearing on the author's wikipedia page and not appearing in Google search if you type the author and "book" or "memoirs"... but only appearing when you already know the full title of the work (try this yourself: Type in "Pinochet Memoirs", and then type in "Pinochet: A journey through a life")

Yet others are explicitly banned, some to the point where a mere PDF on your hard drive can result in a decade-long sentence... IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, NEW ZEALAND, and AUSTRIA.

This has been a massive project. over 200 titles on the full list and 10,000 words in my "Cursory" survey.

Let me take you on a journey into the heart of the forbidden

UPDATE: Also Checkout My Addendum to The Real Banned Book list on Holocaust Revisionist Liturature

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I’ve always been taken aback by how little Americans know, or read, from the other side of the civil rights era… Indeed trying to come up with this list one could be forgiven for thinking the Pro-Segregation side wrote nothing in defense of Jim Crow, so little comes up when trying to google… You’d be wrong.

This is silly. Most Americans have probably never read anything from either side of the civil rights era. What proportion of the American populace do you think has actually read, say, Foner's Reconstruction or The Strange Career of Jim Crow? What proportion could even have named such books? The Dunning School is definitely not some kind of hidden knowledge, any university class on Reconstruction will cover it; admittedly usually with some prejudice, but not unjustifiably so. Dunning's work is available quite inexpensively online and will be in most university libraries.

Every single American has read noted civil rights propoganda "To Kill a Mockingbird" in school, as well as King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Hell I'm not American and both were assigned texts multiple times in the course of my "Education"

I think this varies regionally. I went to public school in the south during the 2000s and never was assigned those or any other books related to the civil rights movement. Maybe saw the "I have a dream" speech on a TV broadcast.

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