Tennessee school board bans teaching of Holocaust graphic novel Maus

[Jilly_in_VA]

A school board in Tennessee has banned a Pulitzer prize-winning novel about the Holocaust from being taught in its classrooms.

Board members voted in favour of banning the novel because it contained swear words and a naked illustration.

The graphic novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale depicts how the author's parents survived Auschwitz during the Holocaust.

Author Art Spiegelman said he was "baffled" by the decision.

Six million Jewish people died in the Holocaust - Nazi Germany's campaign to eradicate Europe's Jewish population.

Mr Spiegelman's parents were Polish Jews who were sent to Nazi concentration camps during World War Two.

His novel Maus, which features hand-drawn illustrations of mice as Jews and cats as Nazis, won a number of literary awards in 1992.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60153696
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These fools apparently think most 13 year olds have never heard swearing or seen a pic of a nude woman.

[Budi]

1. Of course they banned it. As did Hitler's Nazis

https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/main

From the link:
Berlin Schools burn old books
"Only those favorable to the Nazi regime will now be used"
"German education has been purged of smut and dishonesty"



Visit the link for more.

Also this OP in Video, from DUer mucifer
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017708147

"We Will Never Die" A Hollywood Holocaust Remembrance and Awareness Program from 1943

[h2ebits]

2. School board needs to be investigated

Are they Nazis? Antisemitism is on a steep trajectory of increase right now. We need to stop all attempts by the fascists in our country.

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. Yes, but

who's going to investigate them? The county is full of Nazis itself.

[sarcasmo]

4. Fascism has taken over the red states.