Denise Covey: My May #IWSG post -- Cultural Genocide -- book bur...

Denise Covey: My May #IWSG post -- Cultural Genocide -- book bur...: A tale of book-burning and censorship in Nazi Germany.

I write so much that I hardly have a chance to read unless I'm reviewing a book, but this does sound like a fascinating and important story.

I adhere to the principle that I may utterly disagree with certain things that people have written, but I will defend to the death their right to write it. Censorship is an extremely slippery slope. We have to allow the worst of the worst as well as the cream of the crop.

Further, when odious opinions are censored, they become cloaked in secrecy, which gives them an aura of fascination.

There are those who feel that Hitler's works should be destroyed. To this, I say no. If you really want to understand what made Hitler tick, read what he wrote. Reading the words of a person like Hitler shows that a monster can look like an ordinary person. We must police our own thoughts and impulses to avoid becoming such a monster.

~Sly Has Spoken~