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No. The verbiage "banned" is disingenous and you know it. Like "defund Planned Parenthood" vs. "defund the police"* it's just word games.

*picking a side here will be left as an exercise to the reader




> If they "came for" all the books in a particular library

The "came for" was a reference to the holocaust [1]. It starts with books in this library but OP was implying these people will escalate to a total book ban. And when books are burned, humans will soon follow [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

[2] https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/where-they-bu...


Yes I understood the reference, it was neither subtle nor obscure. The premise of the argument is weak, not the conclusion.




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