Do folks understand that burning your copy of a book isn't the same as invading a library, shooting the people working there, drawing up the patients lists and Pro LGBT petitions contained there for lists of names to round up and then destroying all of the research there?

I often see the slippery slope thing because someone suggests burning their copies of JK Rowling (or their R Kelly albums or whatever you want this to be about frankly) and it seems to wildly underestimate what Nazi book burnings represented.

Millions of books are pulped all the time because they just can't be sold to anyone, or because if misprints. The fuss and the symbolism isn't there.

One of the biggest selling writers of all time isn't at any real risk of her works being expunged from history (unlike many writers of the groups she demonises). Failing to recognise the differences of power is a major failing here.

I don't think people should burn JK Rowling's books but geez it'd be good to fix the attitudes about some minor symbolic acts of protest.

This sort of thing especially. The Nazis didn't "advocate" book burning, they just got together some lads in brown shirts and did it

Trying to draw a line between that and some kid on Twitter trashing their personal copy of Philosopher's Stone is a reach https://twitter.com/strollerings/status/1305995124783165444?s=19

Just going to finish off by pointing out, Dora Richter, a trans woman, was working at the Institute that day. Noone knows what happened to her, noone cared to record it.She was disappeared. Quite a lot is made of the books, often by people who also argue trans people didn't exist

I just can't find enough room in my heart for the level of disgust that seems appropriate to the issue, so I'm lieu of that, I'd ask people to take more interest in history as a tool for personal learning and understanding and less as a weapon against others.