Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries voted on by conservatives

[BeBMan]

That probably would bring them into trouble to justify websites

[*End Is Forever*]

My girlfriend read the Feminine Mystique a while ago. Evidently she's a threat to (hu)mankind...

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by BeBro
Why are Darwin and Freud not more to the top? Aren't they evil enough?

Not sure about Freud (isn't his stuff pretty much discredited today anyway?), but Darwin is easy to answer. He did make honorable mention, and the fact is that the looney fundie conservatives are a minority subset of all conservatives. I know plenty of conservatives who are patently embarrassed by the political link with Creationists. One doesn't have to be a religious nut to be a conservative.

[alva]

Can't argue that it helps though.

[Kontiki]

I loved this one critical line of "Democracy and Education":

His views had great influence on the direction of American education--particularly in public schools--and helped nurture the Clinton generation.

Good lord! Not the Clinton generation! It must be evil! Wait a minute - wouldn't Bush be in the "Clinton generation"? And other luminaries like Rush Limbaugh?

[Straybow]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
The Kinsey report; further proof that the truth is conservativism's worst enemy.

After Kinsey's death his private papers revealed that much of his reseach was falsified. He would use a single anecdotal source and claim it was a statistical "study."

Further proof that the truth is liberalism's worst enemy.

[Q Classic]

It's the same, I hear, with "Coming of Age in Samoa".

However, that doesn't detract from an odd choice of books on the list... like "On Liberty", "Silent Spring", and "Unsafe at Any Speed", as well as the two Darwin books.

As far as "truth being liberalism's worst enemy", or more knee-jerk **** like that, it doesn't exactly look like truth is conservatism's pal, either.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Straybow

Originally posted by Last Conformist
The Kinsey report; further proof that the truth is conservativism's worst enemy.

After Kinsey's death his private papers revealed that much of his reseach was falsified. He would use a single anecdotal source and claim it was a statistical "study."

Cite?

There are people who say his studies weren't reliable, but that he deliberately falsified it?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by paiktis22
mein kempf under communist manifesto

It makes a certain amount of sense - mein kampf didn't inspire Hitler, he would've done the same stuff anyway, but the Communist Manifesto did have effects beyond the direct efforts of Marx.

[chequita guevara]

The CM atually had very little influence in history. Engels' book, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific was far more important in spreading the Marxist viewpoint far and wide and building the socialist movement.

More proof conservatives don't know what they are talking about.

[Japher]

just like a commie to generalize us

[chequita guevara]

If you knew what you were talking about, I wouldn't have to generalize you.

[Stefu]

Silent Spring.

I can see the conservative beef with Silent Spring - it did, after all, lead to the banning of DDT, and many people have accused the DDT ban of causing the resurgence of malaria. Similarly, I can see the problem conservatives would have with most of the books listed. It's obviously not meant to be a very objective list of books, folks - the conservative perspective is obvious.

On Liberty is pretty mystifying a choice, though.

[Japher]

If you knew what you were talking about, I wouldn't have to generalize you.

eh? If you knew what I was talking about you wouldn'y think I didn't know what I was talking about and you wouldn't have to generalize me... (Bush would be proud)

[Whoha]

book burnings