Best censorship & politics books according to redditors

oh geez! thank you! lol...no one ever says that. they usually say "Mind your own business bitch!" but if you'd like to read more about what I've done, I wrote a book about it here. theres a kindle version for a lot less too. but it works as a guide for how to use FOIA too. I'm working on a shorter guide to FOIA right now actually! Just for people like you who want to get involved! https://www.amazon.com/Shut-Up-Bizarre-Library-Amendment/dp/1533382336/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491526787&sr=8-1&keywords=shut+up+the+bizarre+war

Students, professors, and administrators have been increasingly accustomed to censorship over the past few decades, with the proliferation of speech codes. Now many students don't even know what their rights are, or they think they have a right not to be offended. I think one of the saddest trends is that more and more students are trying to censor their peers, and these administrators who don't understand the law are acquiescing to those requests for censorship.

FIRE's president, Greg Lukianoff, has more on the history of speech codes here and in his book, Unlearning Liberty.

This is the video of him coming out two years ago as a long-time CIA shill at the Frankfurter Allgemeiner (one of the largest German newspapers) and saying many of his fellow journalists all over the country are too. This is the book where he initially revealed it all.

About the writer, a woman called Megan Fox:

>Megan Fox is a freelance reporter, columnist, and author of two books, Fighting for My Children's Future, a PJ Media compilation about the benefits of homeschooling, and Shut Up! The Bizarre War that One Public Library Waged Against the First Amendment, about the harrowing lengths government bodies will take to silence public criticism.

On a tangential note, I have a friend who's most likely in her forties who says that she was homeschooled from somewhere in elementary till high school graduation. The side effects of such an upbringing, according to her, resulted in underdeveloped and crippled interpersonal skills, which in turn led to a few conflicts with some of her ex-friends.

Also, thanks to her upbringing, she was homophobic before she snapped out of that was of thinking.

I just hope she's doing fine right now. Trump's administration has a way of screwing many people over.

Journalists for Hire: How the CIA Buys the News

by Dr. Udo Ulfkotte Ph.D Ph.D.

https://www.amazon.com/Journalists-Hire-How-Buys-News/dp/1944505474

Sad truth: most r rated films in the US are classified 15 in the UK, in some cases 12a.

Sadly, nothing will ever change soon outside of government intervention.

Want to know something that is worse: NBC rated the first episode Hannibal tv-14, the first episode of Hannibal is now rated by the bbfc as a 18 certificate. Our rating systems are broken beyond repair.

P.S. If anyone actually cares, I've written a book about this and other things about the US Media: http://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-American-Cultural-Environment-ebook/dp/B00BL0R3US

I don't understand how the author here can be aware of who FIRE is but not think political correctness on campus is a huge problem. Setting aside student-on-student or person-on-person criticisms the vast majority of U.S. colleges have policies that substantially restrict protected speech by students (which is unconstitutional, if a public university, or generally a contractual violation, if a private one).

Getting my data from FIRE's Spotlight on Speech Codes 2016, methodology can be found in the link and there's a full pdf available on FIRE's website.

49.3% of surveyed institutions have policies that unambiguously infringe on students 1st amendment right to free speech, another 44.1% have policies that could be interpreted to suppress protected speech or clearly suppress narrow areas of protected speech, 5% of universities have policies that don't restrict protected speech, 1.6% of universities make no promise of free speech and are not legally obliged to provide it. These numbers are, fortunately, improving but universities stated speech codes are just the tip of the iceberg.

For anyone interested in this stuff Greg Lukianoff's Unlearning Liberty is required reading.

I also read that book and I know it refers to 2013 but digging a little deeper reveals more: Greg Lukianoff wrote a book called "Unlearning Liberty," which came out in March 2014 (pre-gamergate, which many others attribute as the shifting point). That book is about many things happening on campus that we're now all aware of — sensitivity training, cultish political correctness and impediments on free speech nationwide. In that book, Lukianoff hangs it on the "Dear Colleague" letter which was sent out in 2011 (and apparently a directive guided by Vice President Joe Biden). After that point, administration staff exploded and began affecting students by 2012/2013.

It's strange to think that one letter may have kicked off this whole thing.

And in case you were all wondering who does control the communications meet Dr. Udo Ulfkotte. He was a German journalist who for years was funded by CIA backed lobbying agencies to spin controlled narratives. He just mysteriously died of a heart attack but fear not because although it's "currently not available", you might be able to buy a used paperback copy of his book on Amazon for the censorship avoidance cost of $900. You also need to be fluent in German as the English copy has been deliberately delayed for over two years now.

https://www.amazon.com/Journalists-Hire-How-Buys-News/dp/1944505458

> There have been a handful of provocative events canceled for public safety concerns.

That's only if you haven't been paying attention for the last 15 years. The FIRE (The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) have been proponents of protecting these rights in the face of administrative overreach. Their president; Greg Lukianoff, wrote in a book (Unlearning Liberty) about the increasing levels of censorship coming down from school administrators over the last 10 years. I highly recommend the book if you're interested in the subject:

https://www.amazon.com/Unlearning-Liberty-Campus-Censorship-American/dp/1594037302/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503186611&sr=8-1&keywords=unlearning+liberty

If you don't have time to read to the book, they also post a number of videos on YouTube about some of the cases that they represent:

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheFIREorg/videos

Greg also does a number of personal speaking engagements with Q&A that detail the broader issue of campus censorship and the specific cases they have handled:

https://youtu.be/Autfo3H6Dss

One of the cases that caught my interest was the case of Keith John Sampson; a student-janitor at IUPUI, who was threatened with a finding of "racial harassment" for reading a book titled "Notre Dame vs. The Klan" on his lunch break merely because the cover of the book showed Klansmen marching against a backdrop of the University of Notre Dame. The book is actually a historical account of an actual fight that took place between the Klan and students at Notre Dame. Even more, the best part of the case is that the book; "Notre Dame vs. the Klan" was available to check out from the IUPUI library. The case was eventually dropped when the FIRE stepped in to help represent Keith John Sampson. IUPUI literally attempted to trample on someone's rights based on the cover of a book.

https://youtu.be/0ZHnB3jyrHI

Edit: I'm not a shill for either the FIRE or Greg Lukianoff. I'm not associated with the organization. I just personally think they're fighting for good causes on college campuses much in the same way the ACLU fights for (most) of our other rights.

So, yea, people literally are programmed to behave this way. They are literally brainwashed [1].

• Fact: The Chinese themselves say they brainwash. We use the word "brain washing" because the Chinese created this word and concept based on the original idea by Stalin which they expanded upon. 1 2 3
  
• Fact: Chinese themselves say they were brainwashed and didn't even know it 1 2 3
  
• Fact: The term brainwashing and thought control are accepted term in academic and psychology circles when referring to China's education system 1 2 3 4
  
• Fact: China has a long history of thought control with its roots predating the communist party 1 2 3 4
  
• Fact: Textbooks (and books or even TV shows) that that promote “Western values” are banned in China. 1 2 3 4 5 6
  
• Fact: The Chinese government calls this unity of thought and is intended to be planted in the minds of all citizens. 1 2 3 4
  
• Fact: The Chinese Communist Party has pushed ideological education on students, requiring tedious lessons on Marx and Mao and canned lectures on the virtues of patriotism and loyalty. 1 2 3
  
• Fact: Children as young as six are taught to struggle for the cause of Communism 1 2 3
  
• Fact: All schools have a Communist Youth League (CYL) organizations for students with mandatory activities. 1
  
• Fact: This in turn reduces Chinese students capacity for critical thinking. 1 2 3 4 5
  
  Brainwashing (which actually is a direct translation from the Chinese word 洗脑) is very effective. I am always surprised at how much Chinese think they have free thought, yet when quizzed on the key points, universally their viewpoints (for example that Taiwan and Tibet belong to China, or that falun gong is a evil dangerous cult) line up almost exactly with the official viewpoints of the communist party. Which indeed is not surprising considering they are educated this way in a vacuum. Online you have the 50 cent party (who guides public opinion through online comments), internet censors (who have to learn the truth so they know what to censor), and flooding (deluging the citizen with a torrent of information – some accurate, some phoney, some biased – with the aim of making people overwhelmed). And in the offline world the analogy that their souls have been engineered has been used. You can't grow up in this environment without it having a profound effect on you.
  
  I have no doubt that many Chinese believe they are mostly free. And that is what makes what the party has done so impressive. It's almost as at some point the communist party ceases to exist as a stand alone entity and it just becomes one with the general population.

https://www.amazon.com/Journalists-Hire-How-Buys-News/product-reviews/1944505474/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_show_all_btm?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews

Interesting'

The link from the article is:

https://www.amazon.com/Journalists-Hire-How-Buys-News/dp/1944505458

English translation of his book not released yet:

https://www.amazon.com/Journalists-Hire-How-Buys-News/dp/1944505458

Link to purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Tell-All-Bypass-Media-Censorship/dp/1532723024/

Yep. And the same people reclassified the blacks as "African-American, whites as "Caucasian"(?), old people as "senior citizens", handicapped as "disabled" and then "differently abled", etc etc

http://www.amazon.com/Language-Police-Pressure-Restrict-Students/dp/0375414827

>that the Washington Post is a "CIA front" (that's some real Alex Jones shit right there)

LMAO

https://www.amazon.com/Journalists-Hire-How-Buys-News/dp/1944505474

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

Love how thinking the government can put propaganda into media is akin to believing in aliens.

Wow

>a few examples of overreactions

Greg Lukianoff wrote an entire book focusing on just campus administrators overreacting. In fact when he gave a talk in the wake of the Yale issue I previously linked, Lukianoff says that the response from the student base was so vicious "you would think she sent an email about burning down an indian village." Which two minutes later resulted in an angry man offended that Lukianoff had suggested he was in favor of burning Indian villages.

I find your use of the word "hyperbolic" interesting, because I'm pretty much just relaying things that have actually happened. It just so happens that these headlines read like something you'd see in The Onion.

Anyway, the reason I'm posting is because I took issue with your last paragraph that claimed the ridiculous people of tumblr are "strawman" arguments. When in fact there are countless examples of these real-life examples affecting America's Education system, and America's comedy scene. Lifelong professionals have had their careers tarnished by this childishness, and to have you pretend it's not real is bullshit.

Yeah, I was just thinking out loud. The heart attack gun was the first thing I thought of when I saw the news and given his background.

Thanks for the recommended article. I also pre-ordered his book on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Journalists-Hire-How-Buys-News/dp/1944505474

I'm 21. I'm not sure what my favorite is, and there's a bunch of books that I haven't finished that I've enjoyed reading quite a bit.

I really enjoyed Unlearning Liberty by FIRE President Greg Lukianoff when I read it about 18 months ago.

I also really enjoyed David Simon's Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, which basically inspired the show The Wire. It's pretty high on the list, maybe my favorite book that I've read so far.

I've been reading Adam Smith's book The Theory of Moral Sentiments since I heard a podcast interview with Russ Roberts, who wrote a book that's essentially about making Smith's ideas in the book more accessible to a modern audience. Smith's book is pretty tough to read because it's not very well organized and it was written in 1759, with a revised version published in 1790. I have found it a very interesting read so far.

For political correctness on college campuses, FIRE founder Greg Lukanioff wrote a book about it (Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate. Their website mentions University of Pennsylvania's 1993 "water buffalo" incident.

They also interview Donald Downs who says 1987 is noteworthy:

>1987 has been a talked about as sort of a turning point year. It was a year that speech codes started percolating. There was a whole network of administrators around the country and university presidents sort of got on the speech code bandwagon. The climate started changing. You could really feel it. A former student of mine that was in law school at the time said that it was almost like a new weather front coming through that you could feel. (More from him: http://www.mindingthecampus.org/2012/11/firesingesthecensors/#more-878 and here http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/liberal-academics-let-censorship-happen/17549)

Link seems to have gotten eaten while posting this, so here's the amazon page for the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Unlearning-Liberty-Campus-Censorship-American-ebook/dp/B00F21VXV2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414877989&sr=8-1&keywords=unlearning+liberty

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I haven't read this book yet (it's on my Amazon wishlist), but Journalists for Hire: How the CIA Buys the News looks like it covers this very subject.

There is a book I read freshman year of college called The Language Police that talks a lot about the same issue, but in school textbooks

Its a very good read and id suggest it

http://www.amazon.com/The-Language-Police-Pressure-Restrict/dp/0375414827

seems like taxpayer money was wasted buying the physical copies off the market. now the few remaining copies have crazy asking prices like $1000 .

or in some cases no copies at all:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Journalists-Hire-How-Buys-News/dp/1944505474/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

I'm not coming up with ebooks. nada. https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=+Ulfkotte+

If there was an ebook published there would be no price manipulation by depleting inventory; too many electrons in the universe.

If anyone finds a link to an ebook of above (either in german or eng) please post it on this thread. thx

They never shut down Operation Mockingbird. Great book on the subject.

>Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor for the German main daily newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), has first hand knowledge of how the CIA and German Intelligence (BND) bribe journalists to write articles free of truth, facts, and with a decidedly pro-Western, pro-NATO bent or, in other words, propaganda.

Looks like it's coming soon: https://www.amazon.com/Journalists-Hire-How-Buys-News/dp/1944505474

>It is anti-Semitic, partly because it's very traditional anti-Semitic bile to say that Jews are Marxists, but also because you are making it an issue. Why did you feel the need to bring it up?

The truth is anti-semitic? Why should I not bring that up, your Socialist/PC censorship doesn't allow it?

>Also, as an aside, the strangely specific yet content-free term "Cultural Marxism" appears over 600 times in Norwegian right-wing terrorist, Anders Breivik's "manifesto".

How much "Marxism" and "Socialism" do you want to see in the speeches and books of the greatest murderers in History, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc?

>For your information, I'm studying political science to a high academic level

You're part of the problem then.

http://www.amazon.com/Brainwashed-Universities-Indoctrinate-Americas-Youth/dp/0785261486

http://www.amazon.com/Language-Police-Pressure-Restrict-Students/dp/0375414827

http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Superstition-Academic-Quarrels-Science/dp/0801857074

https://www.amazon.com/Global-Censorship-Health-Information-Jonathan/dp/098205954X

> Jonathan Emord appeared for two hours on the nationally syndicated radio program “Coast to Coast” with George Noory on September 9, 2019 from 9PM to Midnight Pacific. Jonathan discussed the opioid crisis, FDA complicity in the acts of major pharmaceutical companies in promotions that caused it, Trump’s efforts to stem the crisis, the Oklahoma public nuisance decision against Johnson & Johnson, and the recent bills in California and New York restricting vaccine exemptions.

http://emord.com/2019/09/10/jonathan-emord-appears-on-coast-to-coast-am-with-george-noory/

Wow, so Tommy Robinson is a ghost writer at the Spectator now? I especially liked the claim that islamophobia is a conspiracy theory invented by the Muslim Brotherhood (this just a few weeks after an islamophobic terror attack in New Zealand).

Although wikipedia doesn't say anything like this about islamophobia, the claim is made in an interesting sounding book called Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future. Amazon helpfully points out that customers also bought such great works as Obama and Islam or From Shadow Party to Shadow Government: George Soros and the Effort to Radically Change America. Apparently the discerning reader sees Muslims and Jews as equally nasty enemies.

Is this the kind of nonsense Conservative voters are reading and thinking these days?

Translation from German coming on May 15.

https://www.amazon.com/Journalists-Hire-How-Buys-News/dp/1944505474/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484284892&sr=1-1&keywords=udo+ulfkotte