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Isn’t it Time To Ban The Bell Curve Book In The UK and USA?
A book which makes the case for white superiority and biological determinism should be forever consigned to the dustbin of history.
Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler’s manifesto for his politics and world view was written during his time in prison in the early 1920s. The contents of this book would set the tone for the profoundly traumatic and barbaric events which took place from 1939 to 1945.
West Germany, in an effort to take responsibility and make amends for the destruction, wrought by national socialism took the all important step of banning Mein Kampf from its libraries, schools and public life.
Recent history is filled with various countries around the world banning books thought to threaten internal cohesion.
Back when apartheid was in force in South Africa, Botha took the step in ensuring that works of literature by the likes of Malcolm X, Eldridge Cleaver, Langston Hughes, Martin Luther King jr and its greatest son —Nelson Mandela were never read.
I remember vividly as a kid the uproar that Salman Rushdie’s book generated when it came out back in the 1980s.
Listing the countries where Salman Rushdie’s satanic verses was banned is something of a revelation: Iran, Iraq, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tanzania…