Stanford student reported for reading Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ - Student reported to campus officials over Snapchat photo of them with the book

Reported to the university following a social media post

A Stanford University student has been reported to campus officials for reading Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” book.

“A Protected Identity Harm report has been filed after the circulation of a Snapchat screenshot,” of the student, according to The Stanford Daily.

The reporting system “is the University’s process to address incidents where a community member experiences harm because of who they are and how they show up in the world,” according to Stanford.

“The photo of the student reading the book was posted to another student’s Snapchat story Friday evening, according to a screenshot of the image obtained by The Daily,” the campus newspaper reported. It did not provide a copy of the image nor any further context that would explain how the student harmed anyone.
“Swift action was taken by the leadership in the residential community where both the individuals who posted and the one pictured are members,” campus rabbis Jessica Kirschner and Laurie Tapper wrote in an email to Jewish students.

The Fix emailed Kirschner and asked if there should be punishments for the student and for more information on the Snapchat and the email the rabbis sent out. The Fix also asked if there should be a removal or other action taken against the 76 copies of “Mein Kampf” that the university has.

“I do not believe we should ban books, or punish the reading of books, even books whose content is as offensive as Mein Kampf,” she said via email. “This is antithetical to the purpose of the university and the spirit of free inquiry.”

“As a residential community as well as a learning community, it is important for students to have space and support to work through how individuals interpret things differently, and the distance that can emerge between intent and impact,” the rabbi said on Monday evening.

She did not respond to a follow-up question that asked for clarification on Hillel’s involvement in the report.

University officials are “working with the leaders of the residence that the students belong to address the social media post and its impact on the community,” the paper reported, based on comments that spokesperson Dee Mostofi provided it.

Mostofi and the campus media team did not respond to a Monday morning email from The Fix that asked for more information on what specifically the student did to harm others and if the university would remove or restrict access to its own copies of the book.

A Jewish student argued that whether the book was read as part of a distasteful joke, as rumored, or for a class, it should be allowed.

“Though Mein Kampf carries a hateful, genocidal message packed with poor writing, this should not disqualify the book from being read,” Julia Steinberg wrote in the Stanford Review. “In fact, Mein Kampf is worth reading because it exposes the mind of one of the most consequential men of the 20th century, and allows readers to comprehend the kind of thinking that, when given power, leads to violence.”

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[No. 7 cat]

I'd wipe my backside with the 'Protected Identity Harm report.' They give this bitty, rambling text it's power.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Yes but a book written by an individual who had such an immense and lasting impact on the world is absolutely legitimate reading material.

Ironic the Streisand effect is going to have "unintended " consequences for Hillel and its minions.

Interestingly, Amazon only sells Kindle copies of Mein Kampf on their website now last time I checked (it's listed as "out of print"), and the proceeds go to Jewish charities. I recently brought this up on another thread, but what do you think is going to happen if someone from a left wing political activist group like the ADL or some similar organization gets on the phone with an Amazon higher-up and demands the listing be pulled? You the customer who wants to read for historical purposes/curiosity, or you the historian studying these primary sources wakes up one day to find that Mien Kampf isn't on your Kindle anymore because TPTB want to dictate what the masses are responsible enough to read. Amazon has also pulled the plug on works like For My Legionaries and The Fate of Empires, which don't even have listings on their site anymore, though for some reason Mussolini and Oswald Mosley's works remain.

There is really no big online retailer where you can buy Mein Kampf in print anymore, and I don't doubt that Amazon is in bed with all of these other retailers. The Manheim translation of the book is, however, available on the web archive, and I think Barnes and Noble still sells it. You could also try a mom-and-pops book store or even your local library if you're really curious. All of these charities and organizations want this book pulled for one reason or another who have a "never again" mentality for Nazi war crimes, but you want to ironically ban/make it harder to get an important work that is principal in understanding Nazi Germany and why those same war crimes happened?

The craziest part of all of this was I recall a phone conversation I had with an Amazon person inquiring about their content policy when I called for a customer service thing sometime last year, and the guy told me that Amazon sells works like Mein Kampf because of its historical importance. However, since they're not selling print copies anymore, it seems like they don't even want to follow their own rules that they came up with. The Streisand Effect is definitely going to kick in; people will get curious and look for PDFs or secondhand print copies of these works Amazon and all these other retailers have yanked from their website, and they might begin to believe what the books are saying instead of disavowing them like what all these activist groups want them to do instead.

 

[DumbDude43]

This book was in my Bay Area public high school.

I checked it out and read it and I found it boring.

I wonder if the high school still carries it.

I see the book all over the place, still. It’s an uninteresting book that edgy kids gravitate to. They like to carry it around because it draws this sort of attention.

Big fucking deal.

the book will seem really pointless, nonsensical and just plain weird to someone who doesn't have a solid understanding of european history, especially the period from 1789 to 1918 (french revolution, napoleonic wars, german wars of unification, franco-prussian war, first world war) and how all of it shaped society in the affected countries, so i really doubt that american high schoolers and college kids are even in a position where they could make sense of it

it's a bit like reading marx' kapital, it sounds like complete gibberish unless you are familiar with the circumstances in which it was written (rapid industrialisation, urban growth, the sudden appearance of the industrial worker as a new social class, emergence of trade unions, the early labor movement and its clashes with the ruling classes, etc)

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

Now do all the Marxist shit, Che shirts, and all that other shit.

Oh, wait, it was a small-hat that got butt hurt. Guess that guy will be fired out of a cannon and into the sun.

 

[The Unbecoming]

It's an absolutely boring, dry read honestly. Actually finishing it is a punishment onto itself.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

This book was in my Bay Area public high school.

I checked it out and read it and I found it boring.

I wonder if the high school still carries it.

It was in the library at younger cheeselets' school.
He tried to read it, and also said it was boring as hell.

 

[Troonos]

The kikes who reported this should be publicly named so the reported student can throw rocks at them.

 

[Volvo240]

... it's at a university. Was it possible even probable the student was reading it for research? Ya know for like an ESSAY or PAPER? They still do those right ?
Banning books at colleges regardless of politics is idiotic. I can understand not wanting things in elementary school libraries but college ?
First world culture has gone down the toilet.

 

[Duke Nukem]

I think they legitimately would. Books are old and gay and don't come in entertaining 2 minute snippets. I honestly think some segment of the population no longer has the attention span for a book.

At least I kinda get why older generations bitch about younger ones, but I still don't understand the appeal of stuff like that.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

I just got off the phone with my alma mater and it is still on the shelf there.

Godspeed, based Bay Area high school. I hope the past generation of kids have read it and found it as dry as I did.

 

[Positron]

Amazon only sells Kindle copies of Mein Kampf on their website now last time I checked (it's listed as "out of print"), and the proceeds go to Jewish charities.

Jews steal everything. And why do jews need charities anyway?

 

[Ita Mori]

Shoulda been reading Das Kapital instead, fool.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Interestingly, Amazon only sells Kindle copies of Mein Kampf on their website now last time I checked (it's listed as "out of print"), and the proceeds go to Jewish charities. I recently brought this up on another thread, but what do you think is going to happen if someone from a left wing political activist group like the ADL or some similar organization gets on the phone with an Amazon higher-up and demands the listing be pulled? You the customer who wants to read for historical purposes/curiosity, or you the historian studying these primary sources wakes up one day to find that Mien Kampf isn't on your Kindle anymore because TPTB want to dictate what the masses are responsible enough to read. Amazon has also pulled the plug on works like For My Legionaries and The Fate of Empires, which don't even have listings on their site anymore, though for some reason Mussolini and Oswald Mosley's works remain.

There is really no big online retailer where you can buy Mein Kampf in print anymore, and I don't doubt that Amazon is in bed with all of these other retailers. The Manheim translation of the book is, however, available on the web archive, and I think Barnes and Noble still sells it. You could also try a mom-and-pops book store or even your local library if you're really curious. All of these charities and organizations want this book pulled for one reason or another who have a "never again" mentality for Nazi war crimes, but you want to ironically ban/make it harder to get an important work that is principal in understanding Nazi Germany and why those same war crimes happened?

The craziest part of all of this was I recall a phone conversation I had with an Amazon person inquiring about their content policy when I called for a customer service thing sometime last year, and the guy told me that Amazon sells works like Mein Kampf because of its historical importance. However, since they're not selling print copies anymore, it seems like they don't even want to follow their own rules that they came up with. The Streisand Effect is definitely going to kick in; people will get curious and look for PDFs or secondhand print copies of these works Amazon and all these other retailers have yanked from their website, and they might begin to believe what the books are saying instead of disavowing them like what all these activist groups want them to do instead.

Protip, if groups of people want a book like Mein Kampf banned in what's supposed to be a free country, it's a 4D Chess move to get people radicalized so they can justify new forms of force.

 

[Android raptor]

But how are you going to most accurately make fun of Hitler if you don't read his shitty manifesto?

Hitler was one of histories biggest lolcows.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

But how are you going to most accurately make fun of Hitler if you don't read his shitty manifesto?

Hitler was one of histories biggest lolcows.

Who's the bigger lolcow, Marx or Hitler?

 

[Shidoen]

Who's the bigger lolcow, Marx or Hitler?

Both but at least Hitler had the one ball to actually produce a meaningful revolt and not a gay failure like Marx’s revolt.

 

[The Foxtrot]

It's an absolutely boring, dry read honestly. Actually finishing it is a punishment onto itself.

Anyone who actually wants a better look into the National Socialist ideology would do well to read White Power by George Lincoln Rockwell*. Even his autobiography, This Time The World, actually reads like something intended for a wider audience.


*Even if you aren't, there's at least two chapters in White Power that aged well. One's where Rockwell, with some pretty compelling evidence, explains how it was the KGB behind Kennedy's assassination, and why this benefitted the USSR. Another is him writing of a hypothetical civil war taking place in the 1970s where the "Civil Rights Movement" escalated badly, ending in the occupation of the USA by black supremacists who are in the process of handing the keys over to the USSR. When I read that chapter, ANTIFAggots and Nigger Lives Matter were lighting the country on fire the first go-round, so it was a bit of a shocker for high-schooler me to read that no, the "Civil Rights Movement" wasn't some peaceful heckin wholesome protest, but an actual borderline insurrection just like BLM is in the modern day.

 

[Hitman One]

>Amerisubhuman "universities" have not just one but TWO "campus rabbis"
LMAO

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

*Even if you aren't, there's at least two chapters in White Power that aged well. One's where Rockwell, with some pretty compelling evidence, explains how it was the KGB behind Kennedy's assassination, and why this benefitted the USSR. Another is him writing of a hypothetical civil war taking place in the 1970s where the "Civil Rights Movement" escalated badly, ending in the occupation of the USA by black supremacists who are in the process of handing the keys over to the USSR. When I read that chapter, ANTIFAggots and Nigger Lives Matter were lighting the country on fire the first go-round, so it was a bit of a shocker for high-schooler me to read that no, the "Civil Rights Movement" wasn't some peaceful heckin wholesome protest, but an actual borderline insurrection just like BLM is in the modern day.

What part of the Civil Rights Movement? Martin Luther King was strictly anti-violence and preached a method of protest called non-violent direct action. If you're talking about Weather Underground, a terrorist group, you'd be right.

 

[The Foxtrot]

What part of the Civil Rights Movement? Martin Luther King was strictly anti-violence and preached a method of protest called non-violent direct action. If you're talking about Weather Underground, a terrorist group, you'd be right.

MLK was also a Communist agent, keep this in mind. All that "we'ez all ekwelz n shiiiet" claptrap is a prototypical form of the feel-good bullshit you see spewn all over the 'Net nowadays. "We're all friends here, don't look behind you, there's nothing to see, I'm not preparing to stab you in the back!".