The Tennessee Book Burning Ceremony last week was certainly a horrifying scene.
However, there was one American hero who attended his name is Chris Harden.
And he stood up to this mob and proved that they're dripping in hypocrisy,
how did he do it?
Well, Chris Harden burned a book of his own, but
it was a very particular book that the individuals who organized this
book burning did not really appreciate, let's watch.
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It was the bible in there, I mean it is a book burning ceremony, right?
>> Yeah.
So bring any book you'd like and Harden, who happens to be gay,
decided I'm gonna burn the bible and then I'm gonna praise Satan.
>> Okay. >> What's the big deal?
>> I mean we're doing book parties.
>> Freedom.
>> Book parties freedom are good point, so listen guys a couple of things, so
we're gonna find out later why he's so mad at the bible.
But so in the beginning when I read the story, I thought I don't love that,
he said hail Satan, I get why he threw the bible in there.
But it's just going to throw people off and
leave him in the wrong direction in terms of like, is he saying this?
Because people believe stuff like that right, my guess is no, he's not right,
he's trying to make a political point at etcetera.
But I realized after watching the video, why he did it because it's such a giant
bonfire when he just says, I'm throwing the bible in there, it's hard to hear.
So he's kind of saying hail Satan a couple of times to get their attention that he
threw a bible in there, right?
And so now should you burn bibles?
No, of course not, we're against book burnings, but if you're burning books and
you agree with that idea, why would you be opposed to burning a bible?
You like the idea of burning books you don't agree with,
he doesn't agree with the bible.
You should be like, hey Adam boy way to do the same exact thing we're doing.
Funny how they didn't take it that way, no,
we want to burn books that teach about the racism that actually did happen.
We want to burn books that tell you about things that happen in nature,
like people being gay.
We want to burn books we don't agree with but
the mythology of the bible is sacred and so how dare you?
Well, we think facts are sacred and you burn them all the time, so
whether I agree or disagree with which book he threw in and how he did it.
I love that he had the courage to do it and to show their hypocrisy.
>> Yeah, look this isn't difficult for all those people out
there who can't bear to know that books they disagree with exist.
Just don't read them, don't buy them, you don't have to support them.
There's no a federal law that forces you to read these books or
to support them, fund them, whatever.
I mean, it's amazing because the thing that I keep seeing over and over again.
Whether it be with these book burnings, book bands at public schools and
school libraries.
The burn for any type of real American history curriculum that touches on
things that might be uncomfortable but are true have been part of our history.
It's just this like need to be in this national safe space, right?
And and people feeling that they're entitled to be the arbiters of what
everyone else can learn and read about.
What are they going to do about the internet, what do they do about, no, but
seriously, you can't burn the internet.
>> But by the way, with net neutrality, they tried.
>> They tried for sure, yeah, it's just it's so for
all of the fearmongering and all of the like delicate little
snowflake talk that we heard during the Trump years from right wingers.
Men, I have never seen a group of people who are more desperate for
a safe space than the hard right?
Just so desperate like there there, I mean every time I see these stories,
all I can imagine is what they're like at home.
Like again, like in the fetal position like rocking back and forth in a corner,
just thinking about all those books out there, my God, all those books,
all those books, what are we gonna do?
We gotta burn them.
We live in America,
we should be able to access whatever information whatever book we want.
There's a ton of books out there that I think are Hogwash total garbage.
I remember in preparation for my debate with Ann Coulter,
I read her book, In Trump We Trust.
It was the dumbest book I've ever read, but you know what?
That book, I will allow it, it should exist.
>> Are you not merciful?
Okay, there's so many parts of the story that I enjoyed including you reminding me
about Ann Coulter's book because she now hates him.
>> Yeah. >> And she wrote a book,
In Trump We Trust like he was God,
I this is my second favorite part of the story so far.
And how we've covered it was Ann using the word Hogwash?
Hogwash, I tell you Hogwash.
Okay, said someone from 1945 [LAUGH].
>> I don't know why but you are saying it with a lot of.
>> Okay well maybe you should wash it out of your system, anyway but
as you were talking I realized yeah there's a lot of books I don't like.
Later in the story, we're gonna do a story a story about Donald Trump's picture book
that he put out, yes, he has a picture book, it's Larry.
>> I'm highly amused by it,
I actually think that should totally exist, I might buy it.
>> [LAUGH] Okay, we'll do that story later if you miss any part of the show,
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But no, I will but okay, I don't like Trump's book,
it would never occur to me to burden, who cares?
And then I thought of, okay, what other absurd books are there?
And I was like my God, Ben Shapiro wrote a book against porn,
like what a preposterous book.
>> But you know what?
We will allow it.
>> We will allow it, are we not merciful?
Okay, why would I bother burning it,
who cares if you want to read it, read it, why do I care, right?
And I've never read it, but now I'm amused maybe like what's each chapter is like.
>> I actually kind of do want to read that book?
I mean, I'm sure he had to do extensive research for that book.
>> Of course, that's what I say, chapter one sadomasochism.
Now, these are the videos, I definitely did not watch and did not enjoy it anyway,
even if it was for two minutes and 12 seconds.
Okay no, I did not, now chapter two furies, another thing I did not watch and
you should not do online, you're a naughty boy, come on.
[LAUGH] It's the most hilarious nonsensical book, by the way,
he never talks about it, you know why his audience is mainly young males.
It didn't go over well, [LAUGH] So like Ben,
I mean you really write about the rich getting every break they should get and
let's definitely cut taxes on the rich but really anti porn?
By the way from the guy who says his whole thing is freedom, but
he should tell you what to watch and not watch.
>> Yeah, like what should exist and
shouldn't exist in terms of adult entertainment.
Yeah, exactly, I mean like there's hypocrisy all around but
getting back to this whole book burning event in Tennessee.
Harden later explained why he's got a problem with the bible, so
why don't we watch that?
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>> So it was really brief but
he explained why, he said I used to be in a church and he was in Indiana.
And he said then I and I was a dad and a husband but
they helped to take my five kids away from me.
Okay, so I don't know obviously this whole back story and
what happened in his marriage etcetera.
But yeah, if the church goes and tries to take your kids away, that would
give you a pretty good reason not to be a big fan of the church or the bible.
And by the way the bible and its adherents say that you should burn in hell
if you're gay, what you're supposed to respect that?
Now I know look, there's tons of great Christians,
we talked about it on the show all the time.
Some of the best progressives are Christian martin Luther king obviously was
a Christian, right, he was a reverend.
Having said that, some of the worst people on earth are also Christians, Muslims,
etcetera that are fundamentalists.
Again, the New York Times will lie later and pretend I hate all Jews, Muslims and
Christians.
But if you're in the camp that says, yeah, God hates you and
thinks you're gonna burn in hell.
Am I supposed to be polite to you, like what,
I'm not allowed to hurt your feelings?
No deal, so this guy's has got every right to do whatever the hell he wants and
everybody can go ahead and kiss his ass.
>> Yeah, and look, him burning the bible wasn't because he genuinely believes in
the bible burning, right?
It was to point out the clear hypocrisy among that crowd of people who think it's
totally fine to burn books they don't like.
I think it's, look, it's a dangerous and awful road to be going down and
I don't want us to support the burning of any book.
And it reminds you of Nazi book burnings, we have a video comparing that,
the videos from 1933, so let's take a quick look at that.
>> Nazi German students decided to organize a nationwide
book burning program to eliminate foreign influence,
to purify German culture as they saw it.
>> They didn't see themselves as suppressing culture,
they saw themselves as advancing Aryan German culture.
>> Student leaders exhorted their followers and
the listening crowds to swear an oath by the fire to destroy and
combat subversive and unGerman literature.
>> Now we of course, edited in in the middle of that video,
the book burning from Tennessee to show the comparison.
And it's absolutely awful like who wants to live under a system like that
under that kind of hatred under that kind of censorship,
because let's not make a mistake here.
For all that we've been hearing about censoring incredibly wealthy people
who have a ton of influence and will remain on whatever platforms they're on.
The real censorship is happening in a way that's being completely ignored by
the right wing, in fact it's being encouraged by the right wing.
>> Yeah, so it's the last two pieces of context here, so first of all, and
of course 100% right in that these are the guys who claim that they're in favor of
free speech.
And they're like, but it's speech, I don't like burn it,
I mean literally cancel culture is the worst thing,
cancel these books, cancel them so hard, Let's burn them, right?
So those two videos look similar, you know why?
Because they're very, very similar, that's exactly what the Nazis did,
it's not a little like what the Nazis did, it's exactly what they did.
And so and then finally, the last piece of hypocrisy is, look, first of all,
I want to be made clear, context always matters.
So are we in favor of burning bibles?
Of course not, right?
But if you leave out the context that he was doing it to prove a point about how
the book burning is wrong, well, then you didn't do justice that story.
In fact, you told the exact opposite of what happened in that story,
context always matters.
If someone tells you that context doesn't matter,
they're almost definitely lying to you, okay?
So now for the final hypocrisy is these are the guys who say you can't burn flags?
I don't care what the constitution says, I don't care about the first amendment,
you shouldn't be allowed to burn flags, a lot of burned bibles.
There's a book about race or gender or something else,
I don't like burn it, burn it, right?
So look, right wing, not only are they liars,
they don't even care what's true or not true, they don't care about hypocrisy.
They don't care about any of it, all they care about is power,
I want my way of life and my oppression of you.
And I don't care about anything else, democracy, constitution, etcetera.
It's just a gang for them, it's just a punchline to get to their real objective,
and unfortunately now they're at a point where they say democracy,
we don't really need it so much.
Maybe we burn that to, just so we can keep our power, no deal under any circumstance.