German Library Burns Books That Arent Politically CorrectBy Joshua Krause Kurt Nimmo of Infowars.com recently reported on a translated German article, which suggests that a German library is culling insensitive books. More than 3,000 books from a municipal library in the German town of Bad Durrheim were destroyed after they were judged to be politically incorrect. According to Roland Tichy, chairman of the Ludwig-Erhard-Foundation and the former editor of the business news magazine Wirtschaftswoche, the purge focused on author Erich Kstner and others who used incorrect words such as Negro and Gypsy. Kstner is the author of a number of popular books, including The Flying Classroom, Pnktchen und Anton, and Lottie and Lisa. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1960 for his autobiography Als ich ein kleiner Junge war. He was also elected President of the PEN Center of West Germany. According to Tichy, Kstners books have landed on the funeral pyre of the infamous book burnings of the Nazis, who plundered the intellectual writings Germany to prevent any form of ones own thinking. So not only were Kstners works burned by the Nazis, they were burned again because of words that were written in a time period that wasnt as sensitive as ours. Theyre basically punishing dead authors for unwittingly offending future readers. But dont think that this sort of thing wont happen in America. Political correctness is already worming its way into our literature. Just a few years ago, a professor tried to publish a new edition of Huckleberry Finn, with all of the colorful language removed. More recently, horror author Anne Rice highlighted the PC trends in the book world today. I think we are facing a new era of censorship, in the name of political correctness. There are forces at work in the book world that want to control fiction writing in terms of who has a right to write about what. Some even advocate the out and out censorship of older works using words we now deem wholly unacceptable. Some are critical of novels involving rape. Some argue that white novelists have no right to write about people of color; and Christians should not write novels involving Jews or topics involving Jews. I think all this is dangerous. Of course, censorship may not come in the form of burning books at all, since political correctness has already taken its toll on public discourse in America. Between the privilege checking and the trigger warnings, were raising an entire generation of adults who cant handle any idea that challenges their world view. So Americas future wont be teaming with book pyres for as far as the eye can see. Instead, books that are worth burning wont be written in the first place, because nobody will even know what it means to be controversial. Joshua Krause is a reporter, writer and researcher at The Daily Sheeple. He was born and raised in the Bay Area and is a freelance writer and author. You can follow Joshuas reports at Facebook or on his personal Twitter. Joshuas website is Strange Danger . Speaking to an old German who was around for the book burnings, He noted that the books Magazines that were destroyed were mostly of Pornographic Content Introduced by Jewish Businesses Bookstores in (cant remember if he said) Berlin or Hamburg. Dont overlook Canada, where thousands of scientific and environmental studies have been disposed of. 