Nah I personally think taking some dead author's racist books off the shelf and letting them rot in the vault for 70 years until no one remembers them anymore is very goodhttps://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1367854980036694018 …
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FWIW the copyright system as most people understand it doesn't allow for literal 1984 memory-holing Discussing the fact that these books existed and passing around screenshot of the offensive pages all clearly fall under the "criticism" banner of fair use
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You just can't, you know, publish the racist books and sell them for money if the rights holder doesn't want you to Which Ryan and Matty seem to think it's a very important human right for some reason (agreeing with the talking heads at Fox News)
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I just love that people don't know about his racist propaganda during WWII. Though the people complaining about the removal of his books are
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I'm of the belief that Geisel's works should be public domain 30 years after he died and chucking the "chinese people in zoos" book off the shelf are good things myself
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