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I read it in high school... not as part of high school, just when I was that age... you can get the text on Project Gutenberg (
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt)
If taught properly, and not used as a propaganda text but as a study of how a propaganda text (and the mind of a complete loon) works, I don't see a problem with it. I don't agree with banning books EVER. Unless it's The Da Vinci Code.
No fucking censorship. Ever.
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i don't have a problem with the book... i have a problem with the morons that are going to read it.
maybe they can add two new chapters entitled:
'how to avoid enraging the russians' and 'how to cope with being ass raped by enraged russians'
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(04-26-2012, 03:23 PM)stormium Wrote: i don't have a problem with the book... i have a problem with the morons that are going to read it.
maybe they can add two new chapters entitled: 'how to avoid enraging the russians' and 'how to cope with being ass raped by enraged russians'
Well said
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(04-26-2012, 03:25 PM)Mark Wrote: I have read a lot of Mein Kampf, but its in German so I didn't get it all 
Seriously I have a copy on my PC. I also have 'Cather in the Rye' and 'The Anarchist Cookbook'. All three are examples of people trying to hide someone's viewpoint just because they happened to be off the beaten track. And no, I don't mean to compare Salinger with Hitler and dope-heads . . .
Some people truly believe that information can corrupt people- sorry, but I just can't. People are people until they prove themselves to be otherwise. Adolf proved himself to be a monster, but he was obviously very good at what he did and we should learn from that. Much like studying a serial killer to learn how to catch other wackos, the mental health professionals have learned from Hitler in order to recognize all the multiple fuck-ups in his brain.
the only thing hitler did good was convince people to do stupid shit.
in the end, the entire world lost.
(p.s. the majority of psychopaths/serial killers had copies of the catcher in the rye found in their residences)
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(04-26-2012, 03:27 PM)Mark Wrote: (04-26-2012, 03:23 PM)stormium Wrote: i don't have a problem with the book... i have a problem with the morons that are going to read it.
maybe they can add two new chapters entitled: 'how to avoid enraging the russians' and 'how to cope with being ass raped by enraged russians'
If Hitler had Internet access he would've been unstoppable 
reasoning or gtfo
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