The right's 10 most dangerous books

[ProudDad]

I found this amusing, perhaps you will too.

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591

That #4 is the Kinsey report shows how badly these people need to get laid...

[freedom_to_read]

1. woot... now I have my summer reading list

... thanks, Human Events.

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. Pssstt

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3756246

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3756857

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3764246&mesg_id=3764246

;)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. WTF!? Here's one line that ultimately pissed me off:

FDR adopted the idea as U.S. policy, and the U.S. government now has a $2.6-trillion annual budget and an $8-trillion dollar debt.

Uhm, how bout those ever-increasing tax cuts being responsible?

[rodeodance]

4. my god--another reason why i knew they are nuts. Foucault and Dewey

and women's rights books are on this silly list!!

[quaoar]

5. I see where Silent Spring gets an honorable mention

Only the right wing would use the adjective dangerous to describe a book.

[musette_sf]

6. After reading the entire list

I have the creeps. Pray tell what would this group of scholars endorse as the "left's" most dangerous books?

[Blue_In_AK]

7. Margaret Fucking MEAD??????

Give me a break...

[MsTryska]

21. silly blue - don't you know she's a feminist??

and she thought catering to men's ego's was silly?



Male and Female was an excellent book, imo.


if i recall correctly Coming of Age in Samoa is definitely bad - what with the polynesian focus on women's pleasure and all.

[holboz]

8. Check out the description for #10 - IRONIC!

General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes

Keynes was a member of the British elite--educated at Eton and Cambridge--who as a liberal Cambridge economics professor wrote General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in the midst of the Great Depression. The book is a recipe for ever-expanding government. When the business cycle threatens a contraction of industry, and thus of jobs, he argued, the government should run up deficits, borrowing and spending money to spur economic activity. FDR adopted the idea as U.S. policy, and the U.S. government now has a $2.6-trillion annual budget and an $8-trillion dollar debt.

(emphasis added)

Hmmm...this looks like a policy that the so-called Conservative B*sh administration embraces with much enthusiasm and zeal. So why is this book "harmful" to Conservatives??????

MY HEAD HURTS, THESE PEOPLE ARE SO CONFUSING.

[river2]

9. The whole concept of 'book'

is actually pretty frightening to a right winger.

[Calvinist Basset]

10. Holy Crap

#1. Communist Manifesto - I love the line, "The Evil Empire of the Soviet Union put the Manifesto into practice." An inaccurate statement on so many levels . . .

#3. Quotations from Chairman Mao - "Western leftists were enamored with its Marxist anti-Americanism. 'It is the task of the people of the whole world to put an end to the aggression and oppression perpetrated by imperialism, and chiefly by U.S. imperialism,' wrote Mao." Ah, yes. Even corrupt megalomaniacs like Mao can make insightful comments.

#4. The Kinsey Report - How can they complain? Conservatives wouldn't know how to recognize "sexual deviancy" without good old Doc Kinsey!

#6. Das Kapital - They criticize Marx for teaching, "Capitalists inevitably and amorally exploit labor by paying the cheapest possible wages to earn the greatest possible profits." Gee. That sounds pretty accurate. Are they complaining because they just don't like the truth in print? Oh and then there's this: "He could not have predicted 21st Century America: a free, affluent society based on capitalism and representative government that people the world over envy and seek to emulate." Barf. Bleagh.

#9. Beyond Good and Evil - The Conservative idiots and the Nazis have something in common: they misunderstood Nietszche.

I don't have time to comment on all the books they listed. But suffice it to say that the panel was made up of a bunch of bozos who have no idea what the founders of our country had in mind when they conceived of a nation in which a marketplace of ideas could thrive.

[GroverH]

13. The truth hurts

Nietszche's comment that "superior men will sweep aside religiously inspired moral rules, which he deemed as artificial as any other moral rules, to craft whatever rules would help them dominate the world around them" sounds like a pretty apt description of W and his cronies. Of course, I wouldn't call them "superior," in except in greed, corruption, etc. Religiously inspired moral rules like, say, "Thou shalt not kill" are invoked when there's political hay to be made (Schiavo, stem cells, e.g.) but are swept aside when there's oil money involved.

[faithnotgreed]

17. hi groverh! were glad youre here.... your exactly right that when oil

currency is the goal then their so-called "morals" suddenly disappear

[newyawker99]

23. Hi GroverH!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[MsTryska]

22. *lmao* at your comment ont he Kinsey book....

i was thinking the same thing, they wouldn't know deviant from a hole int he wall if it wasn't for Kinsey.

freaking narcolpetic-sodomizing mule-fuckers.

[sendero]

11. As if...

... the mere expression of ideas can ever be "dangerous".


Why do these idiots hate freedom?

[truebrit71]

12. In dissing Keynes book on economics...

...they lay the blame for today's bloated governmental spending and totally fucked economy on F.D.R. and not the current resident of the WH...

The fact that Charles Darwin is on that list is all we need to know about the rocket scientists that compiled it....

[slor]

14. Am I the only one that is surprised...

that "mein kampf" is not #1?

[Dark]

16. Remember, 'Mein Kampf' isn't about gays, communists, or terrorists. n/t

[Dark]

15. OMG! Look at the honorable mentions!

Origin of the Species
by Charles Darwin


Unsafe at Any Speed
by Ralph Nader


Introduction to Psychoanalysis
by Sigmund Freud
Score: 9


Descent of Man
by Charles Darwin
Score: 2



Are they trying to ignore all scientific discoveries this side of alchemy?

[Imagine My Surprise]

18. Ironically...(or NOT so)

It reads more like a MUST READ list for progressives. thanks for sharing the link!

[Contrary1]

19. They forgot "Catcher in the Rye"

Those of us who were forced to read it by evil educators cannot
deny the damage that was wrought by doing so.

My Pet Goat turned out to be a bit dangerous too...
even when held upside down.

[MsTryska]

20. well i certainly agree that keynes is dangerous.

if it weren't for him, we wouldn't be in this damn mess.