Tennessee

mahatmakanejeeves

(60,930 posts) Wed Apr 27, 2022, 05:56 PM Apr 2022

Speaker of Tennessee House wants to purge libraries and burn books.

Kevin M. Kruse Retweeted

Speaker of Tennessee House wants to purge libraries *and burn books.* This isn’t a street corner preacher, this isn’t your crazy uncle. It’s the government of nearly 7 million people.

WATCH: “I WOULD BURN ‘EM.” 😳

Carrying Speaker @CSexton25’s last-minute school libraries takeover, Jerry Sexton admits he wants to BURN LIBRARY BOOKS he hates📚

It passed. But the senate needs to agree to their version. CALL YOUR SENATORS. @lundbergjon @aclutn @WilliamsonStrg

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Speaker of Tennessee House wants to purge libraries *and burn books.* (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2022 OP

Wherever books are burned, people are burned, too, in the end. no_hypocrisy Apr 2022 #1

He is not a democratic representative. remo ymor Apr 2022 #2

Let's take a look at his personal library... Delmette2.0 Apr 2022 #3

f'ing Bappy preacher. What would we expect? CurtEastPoint Apr 2022 #4

Make sure to burn the Bible as well. keithbvadu2 Apr 2022 #5

no_hypocrisy

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1. Wherever books are burned, people are burned, too, in the end.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Apr 27, 2022, 06:02 PM

Apr 2022

December 13, 1797: Heinrich Heine is born. This German poet once observed that wherever books are burned, people are burned, too, in the end. His words turned out to be prophetic, as his own books would be burnt by the Nazis during the 1930s.