If one is confident in the cogency one's beliefs, one will engage with contradictory beliefs and seek to disprove them.

If one is is not confident in the cogency of one's beliefs, one will attempt to wipe out any mentions of contradictory beliefs.
Reposted from The New York Times
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

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