Erasing history at every turn.

Lynda

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Snips

by Andrew Moran

Tintin Gets Burned

Since 2019, an Ontario school board has hosted an educational program that includes burning as many as 30 books and symbolically using the ashes as fertilizer in the spirit of “reconciliation” for the nation’s Indigenous. Conseil Scolaire Catholique (CSC) Providence, the school district that functions as a French-language school board for the southwestern region of Ontario, claimed that its aim was to “[replace] books in [CSC Providence’s] libraries that had outdated content and carried negative stereotypes about First Nations, Métis and Inuit people.” In addition to destroying the books — which included Tintin in America and a biography of Jacques Cartier, a French explorer who mapped the St. Lawrence — approximately 4,700 books were removed from library shelves.

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Millennials Become the Firemen

Be it on college campuses or city streets, America routinely hosts Two Minutes of Hate sessions where activists, students, and Antifa light a match on literature they deem is offensive to (insert victim group here) or they merely oppose. In 2013, two San Jose State University professors burned a book they disagreed with: The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism. Journalist Abigal Shrier published a so-called anti-trans book titled Irreversible Damage that chronicled the dangerous trend of female minors seeking gender-reassignment surgery, which prompted a University of California professor to urge her Twitter followers “to steal [the book] and burn it.”

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Orwellian or Maoist – The Great Leap Backward

The Canadian book-burning affair maintained the hallmarks of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, prompting militant students to destroy the country’s history, like books, statues, and paintings. At the same time, it also shared an Orwellian chill, requiring children to carry out the wishes of the party for the greater good. Either way, kids were exploited as pawns, and the left’s nescience was on display.