The Burning of Magnus Hirschfeld's Library
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Listen up, smoothbrain. This meme ain't about jokes, it's about history, which you probably skipped in school. It's showing that 89 years ago, some Germans burned a library full of important research by Magnus Hirschfeld, a pioneer for LGBT rights and sex reassignment. The meme says when people talk about 'Nazis burning books,' you should remind them these were often books about things like LGBT rights. It's a 'gotcha' to make people think about the specifics, not just the general idea of book burning. You probably think 'book burning bad' but never cared what books.
