Originally Posted by
MissMischief
I have never read "Mein Kampf" but a person really close to me did decades ago.
Apparently, Hitler had good speech-writers and he was a charismatic speaker, but he was a very poor writer. Mein Kampf is hard to follow; it 'wanders" from topic to topic; the vitriol and hatred are, however, VERY clear. It is basically the rambling, disjointed work of a malicious man seeking to gain power through hateful scapegoating.
I think that censorship, like prohibition, never serves any worthwhile purpose. All it really does is make the prohibited or censored product or material more desirable to people (theory of "forbidden fruit") - it attracts them to it rather than away. I say let people read what they want and let them draw their own conclusions.
Hitler's book will not give the world's extremist radicals any ideas that they do not already have or cannot get from other sources, and bringing Hitler's ideas out into the light of day again might just help people understand how the rantings of today's radicals relate to events in history and the dangers of allowing them to proceed unchecked. Knowledge of a subject is not tantamount to approval....and knowledge of the truth is power.
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