{"id":17118,"date":"2020-09-28T15:45:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=17118"},"modified":"2020-10-05T01:58:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T08:58:55","slug":"when-trying-to-burn-books-is-anti-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/09\/28\/when-trying-to-burn-books-is-anti-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"When Trying To Burn Books Is Anti-Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17119\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/indiana-jones-read-book-not-burn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/indiana-jones-read-book-not-burn.jpg 480w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/indiana-jones-read-book-not-burn-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ironic, isn\u2019t it, that hooligans who label themselves \u201canti-fascist\u201d should declare that most fascist of past-times, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SVNewsAlerts\/status\/1309298555513909249\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">burning books<\/a>, to now be \u201canti-fascist action\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Rioters-have-smashed-windows-to-the-Loisville-city-lirary-and-ahve-thrown-a-flare-inside.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"627\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Rioters-have-smashed-windows-to-the-Loisville-city-lirary-and-ahve-thrown-a-flare-inside.png 563w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Rioters-have-smashed-windows-to-the-Loisville-city-lirary-and-ahve-thrown-a-flare-inside-269x300.png 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Antifa logic: Fascists read books thus burning the books fascists read is anti-fascism because reading books makes you a NAZI (and even being literate is suspect). Perhaps they should at least try to read about history before condemning history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Update<\/strong>: Tweet was deleted; replaces with screenshot of tweet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x1YoAbTwHCU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Loiusville-City-Library-Antifa-Flare.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Loiusville-City-Library-Antifa-Flare.jpg 748w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Loiusville-City-Library-Antifa-Flare-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"When Trying To Burn Books Is Anti-Racist\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ironic, isn't it, that hooligans who label themselves 'anti-fascist' should declare that most fascist of past-times, burning books, to now be 'anti-fascist action'.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/indiana-jones-read-book-not-burn.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ironic, isn\u2019t it, that hooligans who label themselves \u201canti-fascist\u201d should declare that most fascist of past-times, burning books, to now be \u201canti-fascist action\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29],"tags":[20,48],"class_list":["post-17118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","category-war-terror","tag-occupy","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17152,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118\/revisions\/17152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}