Mob-Led Book Banning: Michael Knowles, Abigail Shrier, Nancy Rommelmann | ROUNDTABLE

The Rubin Report

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News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Michael Knowles, Abigail Shrier, and Nancy Rommelmann about the push for banning books that aren’t up to current 21st century woke standards. Classic books by Dr. Seuss like "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" will no longer be published. It isn’t just classic literature with outdated representations entering the list of banned books. Books on controversial topics like Ryan Anderson’s "When Harry Became Sally" are being deleted from Amazon’s marketplace. One that still sells Hitler’s "Mein Kampf." As we enter a real-life version of "Fahrenheit 451," how can we try to reverse the course of modern-day book burning and the push for more censorship? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Dave Rubin and it's time for another Rubin report Friday, Panel Extravaganza.
0:12.8	We'll be focusing on burning books and mashing potato heads today.
0:17.4	And joining me are author and journalist Nancy Romulman, host of the book club at Prager
0:22.5	You, an author of the upcoming book, Speechless Michael Knowles, an author of the occasionally
0:28.9	band book, Irreversible Damage, Abigail Shire.
0:32.7	Guys, welcome to the Rubin report.
0:34.9	Right to be with you, Dave.
0:36.2	Thanks for having us.
0:37.2	All right, so Michael and Abigail, I've had you guys on the show before.
0:41.5	So I want to just kick this off quickly with Nancy just so she can intro herself to the
0:47.6	good people if they don't know her.
0:49.2	Nancy, can you give me a life recap in 45 seconds?
0:52.2	45 seconds.
0:53.2	I am a journalist and an author.
0:55.4	It's a trend of people getting rid of things they don't like or don't understand sort
1:00.3	of by mobbing.
1:01.6	Happened to me a couple of years ago when I had a podcast that some employees of my husband's
1:07.0	former business didn't like and they decided to sort of cancel him and me.
1:10.6	We're unable to cancel me.
1:11.8	I've been reporting all summer for Reason Magazine on the protests in Portland.
1:16.2	That's been sort of unpopular too to talk about what's actually happening as opposed
1:19.6	to what people want to believe to be happening.
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