Are they saying our future military leaders don’t have the judgment to choose their own reading materials, or that they will be corrupted by a book? It is a sad time!
Does this mean the military academies are capitulating? They need to band together instead to resist. Resist! What are West Point, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine academies doing? I haven't seen anything. They need to band together.
Anyone afraid of ideas and perspectives is a very sorry excuse for a human being. It denies our own species name; homo sapiens, and is therefore highly unnatural. 'Queer' would be an appropriate description. :)
I took a quick look through the removed titles. After about 180-200 titles I didn't come upon Holocaust related literature. There also seems to be a dearth of literature regarding women in the military. The preponderance of the books were about racism. What I most disliked was the removal of books about homegrown extremism which I consider a clear and present danger.
Why was this photo chosen for this article? A whole lot of those books appear to be written in German! A much better photo would have consisted of a stack of all the actual 300+ books that were removed.
This sounds like the worst instincts of the control recruits face in basic training. I went through AIT training in the early 1980’s in San Antonio at Ft Hood. I’ll never forget when my platoon Sgt asked me if I went to a feminist bookstore off base. I couldn’t believe it. Especially as I took a city bus across town to get there. Yeah. I lied & said no.
Government of the white man, by the white man, for the white man.
Wow! Thank you.
Operation Caged Bird - how wonderful. An answer to what to do when our free speech is threatened.
They are our talibans.
Are they saying our future military leaders don’t have the judgment to choose their own reading materials, or that they will be corrupted by a book? It is a sad time!
Does this mean the military academies are capitulating? They need to band together instead to resist. Resist! What are West Point, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine academies doing? I haven't seen anything. They need to band together.
Geraldine Brooks is a wonderful author. Her novel “Horse” (#335 on the list) is now my next read!
Anyone afraid of ideas and perspectives is a very sorry excuse for a human being. It denies our own species name; homo sapiens, and is therefore highly unnatural. 'Queer' would be an appropriate description. :)
I took a quick look through the removed titles. After about 180-200 titles I didn't come upon Holocaust related literature. There also seems to be a dearth of literature regarding women in the military. The preponderance of the books were about racism. What I most disliked was the removal of books about homegrown extremism which I consider a clear and present danger.
Why was this photo chosen for this article? A whole lot of those books appear to be written in German! A much better photo would have consisted of a stack of all the actual 300+ books that were removed.
This sounds like the worst instincts of the control recruits face in basic training. I went through AIT training in the early 1980’s in San Antonio at Ft Hood. I’ll never forget when my platoon Sgt asked me if I went to a feminist bookstore off base. I couldn’t believe it. Especially as I took a city bus across town to get there. Yeah. I lied & said no.
Am I wrong that they left a copy of Mein Kampf in the library? If so, why is no one mentioning this?