Yeah, one wonders about those sorts of silences. But I guess this would be the ideologically dangerous books list, not the list of books telling people how to create and operate physically dangerous things.
But since it is an ideological list, the other omission that caught my eye as I read over the top ten was that the judges barely see fit to mention racism as a dangerous idea. They mention the mass-murder of Jews under "Mein Kampf", but as a topic, anti-semitism isn't brought up, nor is any other form of racism. None of the books listed in the top ten, with the exception of "Mein Kampf", readily lend themselves to analysis in terms of racialized politics. It's as if that concept had no part in the horrors of the past two centuries. To me, that's rather telling.
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Re: I'm shocked
Date: 2005-06-03 11:02 am (UTC)But since it is an ideological list, the other omission that caught my eye as I read over the top ten was that the judges barely see fit to mention racism as a dangerous idea. They mention the mass-murder of Jews under "Mein Kampf", but as a topic, anti-semitism isn't brought up, nor is any other form of racism. None of the books listed in the top ten, with the exception of "Mein Kampf", readily lend themselves to analysis in terms of racialized politics. It's as if that concept had no part in the horrors of the past two centuries. To me, that's rather telling.
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