this is a joke, right matt? i know it's a conservative web site, but c'mon.
mein kampf has become an interesting look at a deranged man but can be viewed as harmful when looking at it as being released when it was, i guess. and #10, i suppose, has led to poor government running by the u.s., but let's not really blame it all on one author instead of every lawmaker in the u.s. over the past, say, 70 years.
the only way i see most books on this list as 'harmful' is if these conservative scholars want citizens to be mindless idiots.
HUMAN EVENTS asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Each panelist nominated a number of titles and then voted on a ballot including all books nominated. A title received a score of 10 points for being listed No. 1 by one of our panelists, 9 points for being listed No. 2, etc. Appropriately, The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, earned the highest aggregate score and the No. 1 listing.
1 -- communist manifesto
2 -- mein kampf
3 -- quotations from chairman mao
4 -- the kinsey report
5 -- democracy and education
6 -- das kapital
7 -- the feminine mystique
8 -- the course of positive philisophy
9 -- beyond good and evil
10 -- general theory of employment, interest and money
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i plan on reading each book this group names as harmful to see how truly horrible a human being i can become!
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corduroy_blazer wrote:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=7591
this is a joke, right matt? i know it's a conservative web site, but c'mon.
mein kampf has become an interesting look at a deranged man but can be viewed as harmful when looking at it as being released when it was, i guess. and #10, i suppose, has led to poor government running by the u.s., but let's not really blame it all on one author instead of every lawmaker in the u.s. over the past, say, 70 years.
the only way i see most books on this list as 'harmful' is if these conservative scholars want citizens to be mindless idiots.
HUMAN EVENTS asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Each panelist nominated a number of titles and then voted on a ballot including all books nominated. A title received a score of 10 points for being listed No. 1 by one of our panelists, 9 points for being listed No. 2, etc. Appropriately, The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, earned the highest aggregate score and the No. 1 listing.
1 -- communist manifesto 2 -- mein kampf 3 -- quotations from chairman mao 4 -- the kinsey report 5 -- democracy and education 6 -- das kapital 7 -- the feminine mystique 8 -- the course of positive philisophy 9 -- beyond good and evil 10 -- general theory of employment, interest and money
Fucking commies.
Edited in case sarcasm was not noted
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on betty friedan:
Summary: In The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan, born in 1921, disparaged traditional stay-at-home motherhood as life in “a comfortable concentration campâ€--a role that degraded women and denied them true fulfillment in life. She later became founding president of the National Organization for Women. Her original vocation, tellingly, was not stay-at-home motherhood but left-wing journalism. As David Horowitz wrote in a review for Salon.com of Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique by Daniel Horowitz (no relation to David): The author documents that “Friedan was from her college days, and until her mid-30s, a Stalinist Marxist, the political intimate of the leaders of America’s Cold War fifth column and for a time even the lover of a young Communist physicist working on atomic bomb projects in Berkeley’s radiation lab with J. Robert Oppenheimer.â€
tell me... how does that address her book and it's harmful effects? way to go, 'scholars.'
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warehouse wrote:
the first book i thought of was the bible
dude, god cures cancer.
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Books aren't harmful. Idiots who read books are harmful.
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B wrote:
Books aren't harmful. Idiots who read books are harmful.
i bet you think guns are cool, too :/
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pb21 wrote:
There are a couple of books on that list that are in no way dangerous. How can books about women and sex be dangerous?
women are subordinates to men, pal.
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corduroy_blazer wrote:
B wrote:
Books aren't harmful. Idiots who read books are harmful.
i bet you think guns are cool, too :/
No way! Guns kill people, dude!
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Wot the fuck is everyone's beef with communism I know in practice it aint exactly been a good thing but in theory wot the fuck is wrong with everyone being equal
Wot the fuck is everyone's beef with communism I know in practice it aint exactly been a good thing but in theory wot the fuck is wrong with everyone being equal
Wot the fuck is everyone's beef with communism I know in practice it aint exactly been a good thing but in theory wot the fuck is wrong with everyone being equal
Because people are not equal, and short of Harrison Bergeron or eugeneics, there is no way to make them so.
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