was john boy wrong about printing mein kampf ?

[e knight]

Actually, Edmund Burke slipped up and said "do-do" in the original quote. He was quite embarrassed.

(No, not really!)

[flossieskid]

Easton - you are right as usual. Great example. I probably shouldn’t have said anything, but that word read together 2 times, for those who DID read it - I just didn’t want to sound disrespectful.

[e knight]

Actually, this occurs so often that there's a word for it: a dittograph. And to do it is dittography.

Me, I just thought you were channeling George Gershwin, who composed the lyrics

...
Do, do, do
What you've done, done, done
Before, Baby.
Do, do, do
What I do, do, do
Adore, Baby.
...


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Oh, it was Cole Porter who wrote "Do do that voodoo that you do so well."

[csh2088]

I don't think he was wrong to want to put excerpts of Mein Kampf in the newspaper but I doubt it would have made a difference in people's views of Hitler.

[Easton]

^ Perhaps not in the beginning, but it certainly did when America got dragged into the war. John-Boy became a visionary.

[tasteoftherecipe]

John Boy as a writer was a lover of literature. There was no possible way he was going to stand for what Adolf Hitler was doing over in Germany which was out and out censorship of books with the burning of them. Literature was a way for him to learn things, even if it was not the right lessons being taught. Sometimes the wrong lessons being taught lead to the correct lesson in the end. That is exactly what happened in this episode with Reverend Fortwick and the others who were against John Boy in printing Mein Kampf. 

This is what I loved about The Waltons as many times there was a lesson to be learned at the end of the show. This show was rather an obvious one to learn. 

[Deleted]

It is called Freedom of the Press and John Boy had all the right to print it. It wasn't like he was printing it in a positive light. 

[Easton]

John-Boy had the right to print it, but the citizens had the right to protest it peacefully.

However, I would question whether burning books in a huge bonfire whilst riling those citizens by shouting hatred and fear would be considered 'peaceful'.