Posted on 02/19/2023 5:50:12 PM PST by Rummyfan
The UK’s Prevent program, which is supposed to be protecting the Sceptered Isle from terrorism, recently came under fire for treating actual Islamic terrorism as if it were a mental illness. But that doesn’t mean that Prevent has been wanting for terrorists: like its counterparts in the FBI, it has kept busy looking for “far-right extremists” and has now published a helpful guide to spotting those dangerous right-wingers. It turns out that they’re people who read Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, 1984, and other great works of English literature.
Gee, you’d almost get the idea that the Leftist culture warriors who control Prevent, Britain as a whole, and the U.S. as well, want to destroy the civilization of which those works and writers are a hallmark. And you’d be right.
Prevent casts a wide net. The UK’s Daily Mail reported Friday that among the “potential signs of far-Right extremism” and “key texts” for “white nationalists/supremacists” that Prevent flagged were the “comedies Yes Minister and The Thick Of It, the 1955 epic war film The Dam Busters, and even The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare.”
And much more: “A report by Prevent’s Research Information and Communications Unit (RICU) described how far-Right extremists promoted ‘reading lists’ on online bulletin boards.” These include “The Lord Of The Rings by JRR Tolkien, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, 1984 by George Orwell and the poems of GK Chesterton. It also referenced films including The Bridge On The River Kwai, The Great Escape and Zulu.”
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
LOL
So what they’re telling us is that right wing extremists have good taste in film and literature?
Paper copies are best. Or find a PDF from Archive.org or Guttenberg Project.
We all need to be saving books (on paper and PDF) for the coming Dark Ages. Hopefully we won't have to rely on memory alone, as in Fahrenheit 451.
Don’t forget Ron Dahl, their going after him too.
I wonder... how far are we from this?
I don’t like the sound of ‘ese ‘ere ‘Boncentration Bamps’.
I have heard of that. I like the convenience of Kindle and e-books (and it took me a while to switch over from real books) but I am beginning to see the possible hazards.
I only use my Kindle to read PDF books from Archive.org. I'm currently rereading The Prince.
Amazon can not only delete your books. It knows and stores EVERYTHING you do on your Kindle. What you read. What you browse. What you search. What notes you make (if you have a Kindle Scribe).
SMH
Why not simply burn the books? The Nazis did.
Back then, it was called “Common Sense” - a necessary survival trait...
These works were once part of Literature and Western Civ mandatory reading college classes. Now leftists are canceling them on their quest to destroy western society.
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