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@hd41321508 We literally weren't allowed to read ANYTHING printed, produced, written by pretty much anyone outside of our tiny world (0.5-1 million people out of 7 billion). Yes, some read, but officially you're not allowed and depending on family/friends, can have serious consequences.
@hd41321508 All the world's movies, theatre, art, news, philosophy, knowledge, even lots of science is completely banned and censored. You are brought to be very strictly isolated from all that take serious risks if you try to access, again depending on family/social circle.
@hd41321508 Your own books and rabbis are censored (See Marc Shapiro's book Changing the Immutable).
@hd41321508 It is really no comparison. In my current world in academic/educated woke circles, yes there are serious problems and I am worried by the direction it took a couple of years ago, but the world's knowledge is still virtually all available to me.
@hd41321508 But on certain issues it does feel very similar to blaspheming against religion. In these circles you can have whatever religious opinions you want but atheism is not that society's heresy. The dogmatic orthodoxies lie in other areas, which I don't even feel comfortable naming.
@hd41321508 And yet there's clearly no comparison. These are radically different levels of brainwashing, dogma, censorship, orthodoxy. I use my chassidic experiences as a cautionary tale as to what can happen when free speech, free expression and the sceptical spirit are compromised.
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