To weaponize means to make something that wasn't a weapon before into a weapon.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were a fabrication for a very clear and narrow purpose, it was a weapon from the get go.
I would say the same about Mein Kampf, but nobody read that. The Nazis rose to power on Hitler's speeches and violence, not on this book which nobody really read. Yes, everybody had it, but that's about it.
Did the Sayings of Chairman Mao really cause anything that wasn't already caused by the jackboots that forced people to have and quote from it?
How was the The Communist Manifesto weaponized in the last century? Who read or quoted from it?
> Public pressure led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; the latter established the Bureau of Chemistry (in 1930 renamed as the Food and Drug Administration). Sinclair rejected the legislation, which he considered an unjustified boon to large meat packers. The government (and taxpayers) would bear the costs of inspection, estimated at $30,000,000 annually. He complained about the public's misunderstanding of the point of his book in Cosmopolitan Magazine in October 1906 by saying, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
So it was weaponized by large meat packers? Because other than that, I just see Roosevelt agreeing with some things -- which is hardly anything being "weaponized" -- and the public only caring about contaminated meat, at least in this WP article. Or are you referring to something not mentioned in it?
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were a fabrication for a very clear and narrow purpose, it was a weapon from the get go.
I would say the same about Mein Kampf, but nobody read that. The Nazis rose to power on Hitler's speeches and violence, not on this book which nobody really read. Yes, everybody had it, but that's about it.
Did the Sayings of Chairman Mao really cause anything that wasn't already caused by the jackboots that forced people to have and quote from it?
How was the The Communist Manifesto weaponized in the last century? Who read or quoted from it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
> Public pressure led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; the latter established the Bureau of Chemistry (in 1930 renamed as the Food and Drug Administration). Sinclair rejected the legislation, which he considered an unjustified boon to large meat packers. The government (and taxpayers) would bear the costs of inspection, estimated at $30,000,000 annually. He complained about the public's misunderstanding of the point of his book in Cosmopolitan Magazine in October 1906 by saying, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
So it was weaponized by large meat packers? Because other than that, I just see Roosevelt agreeing with some things -- which is hardly anything being "weaponized" -- and the public only caring about contaminated meat, at least in this WP article. Or are you referring to something not mentioned in it?