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		ndr42 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Librarians are dangerous I had to look up what "seppo" is. Now I get why you were offended. I just would have thought that a nation that's proud of its first amendment and build on the foundations of enlightment would not go down to the darkness where others for "literally thousands of years" had been.

squigz 8 months ago [–]

I'm not offended, because I'm not American. I just thought it was absurd to think this was a somehow uniquely American thing.

I'm also not sure why you quoted that bit of my response - we have indeed been burning books for thousands of years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_burning

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