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<blockquote data-quote="forindooruseonly" data-source="post: 3721450" data-attributes="member: 13718"><p>Followed some of it. The author and the battalion he was with were, or are, neo-nazis apparently. Ian liked the manuscript from the perspective of modern combat between two "regular" similarly equipped forces, not the asymmetrical warfare of most of the current conflicts.</p><p></p><p>It's a shame, not because I sympathize with Nazis, but because a unique perspective has been lost about a war hardly anyone knows anything about. It's doubly interesting because the author is Swedish and joined in a foreign war. It's even worse that the immediate assumption is that because someone has extreme political leanings, then everything they saw and did is now somehow not useful or worth reading, even in a critical manner. </p><p></p><p>I'm anti-censorship, anti-cancel culture. I'm rational enough to judge the moral scope of what I read without the guidance of a bunch of offended souls. It's pathetic that people stoop to silencing people rather than allowing others to draw their own conclusions or pick the useful information out from the political.</p><p></p><p>That said, if someone is uncomfortable publish a book in today's hyper-sensitive and litigious society, I can't blame them. Especially from Ian who has been careful to remain as non-political as possible in his public persona. However, the manuscript is done. This will get published, just not by Ian's group. They author isn't going to back away and shelve it, and there are many who don't care about his affiliation. There's no way this won't get released by a different publisher at some point, even if it is the darkest corners of the printing press community.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="forindooruseonly, post: 3721450, member: 13718"] Followed some of it. The author and the battalion he was with were, or are, neo-nazis apparently. Ian liked the manuscript from the perspective of modern combat between two "regular" similarly equipped forces, not the asymmetrical warfare of most of the current conflicts. It's a shame, not because I sympathize with Nazis, but because a unique perspective has been lost about a war hardly anyone knows anything about. It's doubly interesting because the author is Swedish and joined in a foreign war. It's even worse that the immediate assumption is that because someone has extreme political leanings, then everything they saw and did is now somehow not useful or worth reading, even in a critical manner. I'm anti-censorship, anti-cancel culture. I'm rational enough to judge the moral scope of what I read without the guidance of a bunch of offended souls. It's pathetic that people stoop to silencing people rather than allowing others to draw their own conclusions or pick the useful information out from the political. That said, if someone is uncomfortable publish a book in today's hyper-sensitive and litigious society, I can't blame them. Especially from Ian who has been careful to remain as non-political as possible in his public persona. However, the manuscript is done. This will get published, just not by Ian's group. They author isn't going to back away and shelve it, and there are many who don't care about his affiliation. There's no way this won't get released by a different publisher at some point, even if it is the darkest corners of the printing press community. [/QUOTE]
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