“Here’s the thing,” Robinson said. “Whether you’re talking about Adolf Hitler, whether you’re talking about Chairman Mao, whether you’re talking about Stalin, whether you’re talking about Pol Pot, whether you’re talking about Castro in Cuba, or whether you’re talking about a dozen other despots all around the globe, it is time for us to get back and start reading some of those quotes.”
This is the Lieutenant Governor of a state (North Carolina) saying we can get gems from the quotes of genocidal maniacs. This is where we are now.
We should be reading them though
I thought we were the party of “banning books is bad”?
Read them with historical context.
You go ahead and read Mein Kampf. I don’t need to read Hitler’s own words to know how evil he was or what he did.
Those who refuse to learn history are doomed to repeat it.
Especially the bad parts.
You can learn history without reading Mein Kampf yourself.