The person who made this image and reasoning behind including books: https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-anarchonomicon-real-banned-book
And followup: https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/addendum-the-most-banned-book
What banned/controversial books have you guys read? Which would you recommend? Are there any books that should be on this list but aren't?
Personally I think this list needs to include Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors which is currently the only book where the publisher has been successfully sued for a crime committed by the reader. Also I have no idea why Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses isn't included considering there is a bounty on the translators of the book.
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its always weird to hear about "banned books" in america. my local barnes & nobles has an entire display for what they call "banned books" but apparently its just books that shitthole towns have taken out of school libraries
found a list of it online. its exactly the kind of books you'd expect to be on the list
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That's because there are no banned books in the US, taking stuff out of public libraries ain't banning, especially when you can just order them on Amazon our get the pdf/epub for free. Banning and censorship goes beyond library removal, it entails government ordering publishers to stop printing, bookstores to stop selling and online content removal.
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But are these books even being banned from general public libraries? I bet I could find most of them at my local library, actually. I think most of them are simply removed from school libraries, which makes sense. I certainly don't have any objections to having a more curated set of books available at a public school library, given that students are still allowed to check the books out at a "real"/full-service public library.
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Very few of them are even removed from school libraries outside a few specific counties (which are often insane leftoids duplicitously removing these books as a protest against library restrictions)
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The uncensored version of Operation Dark Heart is a book I would consider banned.
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OY VEY THEY HAVE BANNED ALL 357 HORUS HERRSY NOVELS
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!leafs my schools banned book shelf were books banned from import at one time or another. Lead to me reading Lolita
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lmao I was like 14 and basically I took away from it was "wow that hubert guy kinda sucks."
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It is just bullshit political rhetoric. Libraries have limited space, and so someone has to make the call on what books are kept in them, and what books are not. Whoever previously had this power bemoan the loss of these privileges to people higher up on the political chain. In desperation, they try to equate this loss with book burnings in Nazi Germany etc.
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I cant believe they dont let kids read hustler or penthouse in scholl anymore, smh
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None of these books are banned, I'm not even talking about the US, you can buy them in Chile as well. That list is just a bunch of dictator apologia, Apartheid apologia and antisemtic stuff lol.
@kaamrev is his biography banned in your rainbow homeland?
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The creator wanted to be "neutral" and added a bunch of anti-goy books too.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/04/eugene-terreblanche-south-african-white-supremacist
He's a big longpost all on his own, his time after Democratization, and his eventual murder by his own farm workers
But so far as i know there are no bannning of an book in modern RSA, there have been no desire or need. The ruling ANC is too everpresent to ever fear anything like a controversial white supremacist book or anthing
There was a minor controversy when his biography book was released, yet it was upper class white liberals and blacks who issued their tirade on the media, but no political action or fricks given by the everyman black peep on the street.
White political power so so insignificant and no threat, so there have never been a social or political motivation to ever ban any literature even white supremacist litearture. Ironic that only Apartheid SA ever banned books and enforced these bans, but modern RSA have not.
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Not ironic at all, like you said, whites have no political power as a group nowadays. During Apartheid censorship was a necessity to avoid insurrections before it could happen.
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my 78,000 word greentext about BIPOCs is banned wtf????
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!bookworms we should read the pivot of civilization. Its free online on gutenberg press. I'm reading the introduction right now and its quite good though I don't know about the rest of the book yet. Perhaps a mini reading for the book club of just the introduction
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Next drag queen story hour is gonna be lit 🔥
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Camp of the saints.
It's good. Idk if it's technically banned but it's definitely controversial.
It talks about hordes of migrants showing up on boats on the shores of europe (lol)
and then they invade basically in like zombie apocalypse style.
It's legitimately a good and entertaining book.
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my public library has it, so i checked it out a few months ago
i unfortunately found it to be impossibly long-winded; despite my interest in the subject matter i wasn't able to force myself through it. 20th-century French fiction is usually like this
i quite enjoyed a recent article in First Things about it though:
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/05/spiritual-death-of-the-west
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to each their own, i enjoyed it
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Culture of Critique, White Girl Bleed a Lot, Democracy: The god that failed, White identity....Literally 80% of what I read are chud books
Kevin MacDonald's "Culture of Critique", and his Jewish trilogy with "Those who dwell alone" and "separation and its discontents" make up the strongest case for anti-jew chuddery and Nazi shit. I don't agree with all of his conclusions, but there is a lot to what he says. I could write a full review, but the two points I'd take home are
-Jewish intellectuals in the early 20th century engaged with the humanities in bad faith, their own personal ethnic interests drove a lot of what they wrote. Are you really going to tell me the most insular and particular culture in the west at the time just so happened to fall constantly on the side of egalitarianism and tearing apart the dominant culture?
-The humanities all seem susceptible to nepotistic dogpiling. Boaz for Anthropology, Freud for Psychology, etc all had a charismatic jewish leader who cultivated a cult of personality around him, and seeded university chairs with their disciples, and their disciples literally acted like cult members in how they constantly quoted and referenced their "great leader". Then once they reached sufficient numbers they simply brushed competing viewpoints out of the mainstream with all their institutional power. It took a hundred years for us to escape the influence of Freud, despite what bullshit his theories were.
I can't be fricked reading through the entire list, but I don't think so. Most chud books that aren't academic are pretty shit, and for the far right at least, you can find everything decent reviewed at American Renaissance or in the Occidental Quarterly.
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If Ryan Landry ever wrote a book I'd read it, but for now I just have to read rhe American Sun. I miss the Hestia Project.
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No, don't reply like this, please do another wall of unhinged rant please.
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I want fear and trembling banned
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Repent, cute twink.
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"Clown World Chronicles" That's probably just some schizos .pdf document. I wouldn't really call it a book
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Makes me wonder if it's actually banned as well (I doubt it)
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It's probably banned on reddit or some shithole country like New Zealand (same thing)
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So it's basically just an entire wall of rightoid schizoposts?
I have to wonder how many of them are banned justifiably and how many are just spicy shitposts someone didn't like, based off the titles some of those ought to get pretty r-slurred
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It should include Hunter, the superior version of The Turner Diaries
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It's there
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Frick
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Snapshots:
https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-anarchonomicon-real-banned-book:
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https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/addendum-the-most-banned-book:
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snappy no!
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Sign of snappilence
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Does reading To Kill a Mockingjay and Animal Farm for my high school literature class count? I found them to be quite interesting stories - especially since they painted neat pictures of (somewhat) idyllic life out in a small English farm, or a turn-of-the-century small town in America. Admiteddly, I had a pretty dang active imagination as a kid, I was probably more invested in following along than most other classmates lol.
Also, it's not as classic literature, but I've spent much of my younger days being a huge Captain Underpants fan. I would nag my parents to buy the new book every time they came out! I was especially stoked for when the series got back after it took a rather long break from 2006 to 2012. It's charming, and even funny in ways that go beyond "haha funny toliet humor", though I do admit that this may be the nostalgia goggles talking. I included this because the Captain Underpants series was reportedly banned a lot in elementary and middle schools (which made sense, considering that they were released back in the 90s and 00s where both leftoids and rightoids dedicated much time to censoring shit "for the kids")...but hey, I ain't afraid to admit that Pilkey is what got me into books
!zoomers who else remembers those books?
black trans lives matter
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i cant find a good copy of it but i remember there being a "flip-o-rama" song that was on some cd that came with the captain underpants books
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From the list:
The Turner Diaries was crap. It's obvious from the way they're written that the dude was super into the soc part of natsoc which is very cringe.
Expedient Homemade Firearms was interesting from an intellectual standpoint but the author is very aware that these are not good designs, just the absolute bare minimum.
I've read several of Evola's books including Ride the Tiger and Revolt Against the Modern World and while he's got a point, it was nothing new to me since I grew up with an involved father.
The Slaughter of Cities was a slog. Correct, but dense to read.
Democracy - The God That Failed was good. Hoppe is the only influential libertarian who understands that it's not for everyone.
Improvised Munitions Handbook TM 31-210 is great fun, made my teenage years better for sure.
Two Hundred Years Together was definitely worth reading, as is Solzhenitsyn's other famous book The Gulag Archipelago
No idea why Tarnsman of Gor is on there, it's a bit coomer but it's hardly The Story of O or the Hundred Days of Sodom.
Germany Must Perish! was a book. Not good, but I wasn't expecting it to be. Antisemites love to quote it because a jew wrote it, but it's just wartime propaganda. Vicious and the author was definitely breathing too heavily when he wrote it sure, but propaganda nevertheless
Mein Kampf isn't as bad as people claim.
Not on the list but should be:
Voluptuous Panic was certainly an eye-opener, even for someone used to gay degen behaviour
If You Give a Gay Their Way wasn't particularly well written, but it's an extremely comprehensive look into the mindset of anti-homos
Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching is a neat look into extremist beliefs and actions, similar to our beloved uncle Ted's manifesto
Camp of the Saints was difficult to get through because it's typical fr*nch writing, but it was prescient
The World Book Encyclopedia 1974
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What's the reasoning for this?
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https://x.com/ramzpaul/status/1028020726010458112
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At no point in your rambling, incoherent post were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this site is now dumber for having read it. May God have mercy on your soul.
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Is “The Culture of Critique” by Dr. Kevin MacDonald on there? Because people are reading it..
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