{"id":2591,"date":"2016-03-21T21:18:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T21:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2016-04-19T18:58:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T18:58:12","slug":"news-from-retardistan-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/?p=2591","title":{"rendered":"News from Retardistan (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A bookstore in Sofia &#8211; the same about which I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/?p=2489\" target=\"_blank\">reported recently<\/a>, the one which advertised Hitler&#8217;s <em>My Struggle<\/em> as &#8220;Hit&#8221; and put it in such a tasteful manner on a table beside \u00e1 book of holocaust survivor Primo Levi:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To my surprise, Hitler&#8217;s book has finally disappeared from the prominently placed table (Primo Levi too). Has someone read my posting and realized that a book that is advertising the extermination of the Jews, published by a Nazi publishing house and with a portrait of Hitler on the cover that was an official portrait supposed to glorify him\u00a0and that is obviously targeting an audience of raging anti-Semites and Nazis should not be sold in an establishment that is selling books? Unfortunately not!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>My Struggle<\/em> has\u00a0not disappeared, but has moved to an even more prominent place: now you see this vile rag of a book in several copies almost jumping in your face when you enter this bookstore, placed on a display rack which every person that enters must notice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And it goes without saying that the place previously occupied by <em>My Struggle<\/em> has found a &#8220;worthy&#8221; placeholder: Henry Ford&#8217;s <em>The International Jew<\/em> in Bulgarian edition, one of the main &#8220;inspirations&#8221; of Hitler and not much less radical regarding the &#8220;solution&#8221; of the &#8220;Jewish problem&#8221; as <em>My Struggle<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Let me guess: when I visit this &#8220;establishment&#8221; (I avoid the word bookshop) next time, I will probably see Ford replaced by the &#8220;<em>Protocols of the Elders of Zion<\/em>&#8220;? Or Celine&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Bagatelles pour un massacre<\/em>&#8220;? Or the &#8220;<em>Leuchter Report<\/em>&#8220;? And in the children&#8217;s section maybe an edition of pornographic\/anti-Semitic pictures from Julius Streicher&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Der St<\/em><i>\u00fcrmer&#8221;, <\/i>labeled as usually with &#8220;Hit&#8221; and maybe in this case with the additional tasteful sticker &#8220;great educational value!&#8221;, preferably placed beside the <em>The Diary of Anne Frank<\/em>?.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Retardistan is a place where nice books that spread certain &#8220;values&#8221; even in the last household are held in great esteem, a place where people of a certain &#8220;culture&#8221; have it very easy to find what is arousing their interest and honestly, isn&#8217;t it great to find\u00a0books that promote mass murder, systematic extermination of people and extreme racial hatred without any effort? Hail Retardistan!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Irony button &#8220;off&#8221;)<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><div class=\"dmrights_badge\">\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\t\t\tcatalogCode = \"AAA-1100-01\"\t\t\r\n \t\t<\/script> \r\n\t\t<div id=\"DMR-seal\"><\/div>\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ipregistry_wp.dmrights.com\/dmr.js\"><\/script>\r\n\t\t<\/div><br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bookstore in Sofia &#8211; the same about which I reported recently, the one which advertised Hitler&#8217;s My Struggle as &#8220;Hit&#8221; and put it in such a tasteful manner on a table beside \u00e1 book of holocaust survivor Primo Levi: To my surprise, Hitler&#8217;s book has finally disappeared from the prominently placed table (Primo Levi [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[12],"tags":[675,399,1238,890,872],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yNbb-FN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}