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scerotic_wings
Feb. 6th, 2008 10:04 pmA post from somebody else on the Detroit Public Schools Book Depository.
It's rotting, and rotten, and has been for a while.
And yes, the picture of the phoenix-book is cool, but... well... we've all heard about how burning books is akin to burning people (much more dramatically than that, but I do not intend to draw any comparisons to Nazis, that seems a little overboard), and I just keep thinking... kids could have used those books. I know, floor after floor of the expurgated pulpy mush that is textbooks could hardly be called inspiring to any form of action... but still. What sort of pithy quote sums up people who could allow this to happen?
It's rotting, and rotten, and has been for a while.
And yes, the picture of the phoenix-book is cool, but... well... we've all heard about how burning books is akin to burning people (much more dramatically than that, but I do not intend to draw any comparisons to Nazis, that seems a little overboard), and I just keep thinking... kids could have used those books. I know, floor after floor of the expurgated pulpy mush that is textbooks could hardly be called inspiring to any form of action... but still. What sort of pithy quote sums up people who could allow this to happen?
