Reposted from lemmy.world c/politics since it violated it’s rule #1 about links.

Now that the fascists have taken over, what books, academic studies, and pieces of knowledge should take priority in personal/private archival? I’m thinking about what happened in Nazi Germany, especially with the burning of the Institute for Sexual Science(Institut für Sexualwissenschaft) and what was lost completely in the burnings.

Some of us should consider saving stuff digitally or physically.

  • fenndev@leminal.space
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    12 hours ago

    “Life is going to continue on just fine” - unless you’re a woman (bans on contraceptives, loss of bodily autonomy), queer (rolling back protections for LGBTQ+ people, penalizing even talking about them), non-Christian, a minority…

    • 418_im_a_teapot@lemmy.world
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      46 seconds ago

      This. Women are already literally dying. The first woman (that we know of) to die from the abortion ban happened within just 20 days – before SCOTUS even heard the case that overturned Roe. And her story is a painful, heartbreaking read.

      Plus, does nobody remember immigrant families being ripped apart? Kids put in cages? Their “family ID” being – whoops – deleted from the database so they couldn’t be reunited with their parents?

      But sure. Life will go on like normal.