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I never knew that piece of history. It occurs to me that today we are going through a virtual fire, where books are not burned, but are prevented from being written preemptively. The suppression of free speech underway in the US and Canada is a peculiar form of conflagration.

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I agree. I know several people not writing because they fear they may inadvertently offend.

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