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In cases like these, details and context are important, and unfortunately they are very scant here. Specifically, one may draw a distinction between someone re
by sequoia 4y ago
In cases like these, details and context are important, and unfortunately they are very scant here.
Specifically, one may draw a distinction between someone reading Mein Kampf and posting a selfie on social media with the book (it's not clear whether a selfie was involved but social media posting was). There's no issue with reading mein kampf, but if it's being used as a prop on social media for the purpose of Jew-baiting, I can see how someone would take issue with this and/or consider it an offence against a school conduct guide.
To take another example, I don't think there's any issue with someone learning or teaching how to tie a knot used to make a noose. But if someone throws a noose over a tree, poses in front of it & posts the picture to social media, that's a very different action. In the latter case, it would be dishonest to say they were censured "for tying knots," they would be censured for race baiting and making implied threats.
- meany 4y agoStanford Review link supporting OP https://stanforddaily.com/2023/01/22/protected-identity-harm-report-filed-as-screenshot-of-student-reading-mein-kampf-circulates/ https://stanforddaily.com/2023/01/22/protected-identity-harm...
- mc32 4y agoI can imagine with things like this there come a day when sitting in a library someone spies upon another reader reading something they claim is triggering them. Let's say religious vs non religious people or ultra conservative vs ultra progressives. Or any high voltage topic with extreme opinions.
- sequoia 4y agoOne can imagine many things, but that's not what happened here. Your comment is confirmation (to me) that FIRE's headline & article are misleading. The article is making you think of someone "minding their own business" reading a book and getting in trouble. In fact, we don't know whether any reading occurred. Someone's in trouble for (seeming too, details are unclear) using Mein Kampf as a prop in a social media post. I'm disappointed in FIRE for going the misleading clickbait route here, I generally support their work.