NW Iowa Fascist burns public library Children's books

[suegeo]

Because he hates gay people.

https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/nw-iowa-religious-activist-burns-lgbtq-library-books-in-protest/article_0ae4c328-5814-5674-bb8d-6120a9a7d020.html#tracking-source=home-trending

Paul Dorr, a northwest Iowa religious activist, released a Facebook Live video Friday in which he burns four LGBTQ-themed books from the Orange City Public Library. A still from the video is shown, in which he throws Suzanne and Max Lang's "Families, Families, Families!" into a burning barrel.

What's the saying, if they'll burn books, they'll burn people

Madness.

[kimbutgar]

1. They burned books in Germany under Hitler.

[bobbieinok]

2. By Heine? Quote's on Goettingen memorial to Nazi book burning at U there

[suegeo]

8. Heinrich Heine

https://curiosity.com/topics/heinrich-heines-quote-about-book-burning-eerily-predicted-the-holocaust-curiosity/

In 1823, Heinrich Heine wrote the words, "Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen," or "Where books are burned, in the end, people will also be burned." More than a century later in 1933, young Nazi students in Germany organized a nationwide book burning to eliminate foreign influence. As this quote eerily predicted, the mass murder of Jews in the Holocaust soon followed.

Remember the White Rose Society.

[bobbieinok]

12. Because Heine was Jewish, some Germans refused to accept that he was a great German poet

[suegeo]

15. Lise Meitner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner

[suegeo]

16. Also, White Rose Society

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose

[suegeo]

17. Also, Neutral Milk Hotel

Get yourself a copy of their music.

[Croney]

3. People should replace the books tenfold.

Can't he be charged with destruction of public property?

[shenmue]

5. Yep

[rurallib]

4. Steve King country

Maybe JD Scholten should step in and replace those books and remind people that we don't burn books

[Jake Stern]

6. Some of the posters gave me ideas of how to make this right

Donate money to LGBTQ organizations and/or the ACLU in Dorr's name or establish the "Paul Dorr-OC Pride LGBTQ Bookshelf" at the Orange City Library.

[IADEMO2004]

7. Steve King, Trump, book burning what's next NW Iowa voters???? Spanish Inquisition??

[suegeo]

9. One more rec, you guys, and this post

makes it to the greatest page, where it can be seen by more people.

[irisblue]

10. Awful man

[suegeo]

11. Thank you for the support

Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one seeing these organized hate group actions. You give me support to know I'm not the only one.

I have had the "opportunity" to visit NW Iowa often. So, I can testify: This one guy isn't just one guy.

I wish I had written it down when I saw it, but there was a facebook group of these hateful nuts in NW Iowa. In Orange City, where there is a small Dutch-xian college.

And I'm seeing/hearing twitter messages, maybe here on DU, that Steve King (Fascist, NW IOWA) is a white nationalist?!

It's hard to keep up with the churning, but I swear, I've seen this stuff.

[suegeo]

13. Christ on a trailer hitch, it's Tom Dorr's brother

https://www.bluestemprairie.com/a_bluestem_prairie/2006/08/dorr_family_feu.html

[suegeo]

14. GW Bush His self appointed Tom Dorr

Iowa's Tom Dorr, Undersecretary of Agriculture for Rural Development,

GWB, the crime family

[progressoid]

18. On the plus side, Orange City has a Pride event!!

That's kind of amazing considering the environment there.