Conservative activists, led by a local pastor and outspoken Israel advocate, pushed the district, Mission CISD, to excise books mostly about gender, sexuality and race. Their demands represented an extreme version of a nationwide culture war over books that has played out in recent years — and ensnared a number of books with Jewish themes.
In Mission, the long list of books on the chopping block includes a recent illustrated adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary; both volumes of Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust graphic memoir “Maus”; “The Fixer,” Bernard Malamud’s novel about a historical instance of antisemitic blood libel; and “Kasher in the Rye,” a ribald memoir by Jewish comedian Moshe Kasher.
the nazis also banned books they didn’t agree with
Which you can learn about…in Maus. Ffs.
Diary of Anne Frank? Really?! Dumb shits
I’m still proud of the copy of “Maus” that I donated to the library of my shitty little Texas town before I moved out of that hell-hole a few years back. I still check the online catalog from time to time to make sure it’s still in circulation.
As someone else who got out of a shitty little Texas town, I salute you.
Land of the free and freedom of speech are such hollow terms when Americans say them.
Fascism has a very strong foothold in half of USA.I’m interested in what their reasoning was for banning Maus - I certainly don’t recall any sex or amti-christian material.
IIRC there is a brief depiction of a (possibly human rather than mouse? It’s been a while since I read it) woman whose body is in a tub after committing suicide, which is what I’ve read other groups trying to get it banned object to. Because titty.
Oh, I think you know
It hurts their feelings that Nazis are the bad guys.
I’m definitely not for banning books, but couldn’t you say the same thing about news media? Or Facebook memes? Those “get you to think”.
I don’t support banning memes or the news either, but they aren’t under attack currently.
We should only be banning things that promote intolerance because there will never be an end to the bannings, there will always be some witch to hunt somewhere.
To answer your question, yes it is the saying the same thing, that is why banning books is so stupid. A book, movie, TV show, meme, or news report isn’t necessarily going to change my mind but it might make me think about something from a perspective I didn’t consider before.
What fucking year is it?
What was the name of that group last century that pulled the same crap? It’s Reich on the tip of my tongue…
They want to make sure that we will Nazi it coming
#OnTheReichSideOfHistory
Zionists worked with the Nazi’s before WW2 to ‘encourage’ Jews to move to Palestine. They both agreed that Jews didn’t belong in Europe.
It’s very difficult to avoid comparing right wing America to fascists when they have this much of a problem with Maus.
Fucking yikes
Fucking conservatives
Wouldn’t want people learning from history, now would we? How else are we supposed to repeat it?
Texas is dumber than I thought.
They’re trying to be. Looks like it might work at this rate.
The dumber they are the better chance they’ll turn out conservative and republican.
I don’t think it can get any dumber than I thought cuz I already think it’s super super fucking dumb.
I hate this dumb fuck country 😔
