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Is the Trump administration's website censorship the internet age version of Nazi book burning?

JL;DR SUMMARY Mira Fox draws a chilling parallel between the Trump administration's censorship of federal websites regarding gender ideology and the 1933 Nazi book-burnings, highlighting both eras' attempts to erase LGBTQI+ identities. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Trump AdministrationCensorshipLgbtqi+ RightsResistanceInstitute For Sexual ResearchMagnus HirschfeldGender IdeologyExecutive OrdersNazi Book Burning

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Berlin, Germany
"In 1933, following a proclamation of action against the un-German Spirit, Nazi youths attacked the Institute for Sexual Research, a pioneering research center in Berlin, run by Jewish sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld."
United States
"Information on safety while traveling and international adoption vanished off the State Departments site."

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