Fake news.
It wasn’t ‘banned’ - they suggested something else could be used that was better or rather to review if see.
Meanwhile, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD was ‘banned’ when a school said it was ‘white savior complex’ and had the “n word” 50 times. Where’s the coverage on that?
If it fits into a (false) narrative, the media just prints their version of events. This is yet another example.
You know the holocaust didn’t happen. Right?
Art Spiegelman, the author of Maus, won a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was a staff artist for The New Yorker for almost ten years.
Pretty good "elite" credentials there.
So, homeschool.
Because you know what you kids can take.
I suspect that by the 9th grade, those kids have seen every
bit of the human anatomy in our k-12 schools.
What’s this nonsense about nudity? Teaching about two men
playing homo pirate is okay, but in a reciting of history
nudity is repulsive, cursing is out of line?
The schools made kids age appropriate for just about anything
these days. They’re trying to turn the kids into overt
flagrant racists. So this topic is to be off limits?
How many people are aware that nine out of ten college
age kids in a recent polling on the street, were unable
to tell the interviewer who Hitler was.
That’s the real reason this can’t be taught. They don’t
want the kids to know anything about history.
I had lunch today with one of my teachers from High School. We’ve stayed friends all these many years; she was only 24 when she started teaching, and I was in one of her first classes my Sophomore year.
Anyhow, she mentioned this book at lunch and how she’s now determined to read it! I love it!
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
This is a list of books that have at one point either been banned, censored, or requested for removal from libraries.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1360.Best_Banned_Censored_and_Challenged_Books
You guys will be surprised to see what’s in there - subjects concerning Government Overreach, disastrous dystopian nightmares (caused by Government, in most cases) and the things we here at FR all rage against on a daily basis.
Over The Target, Taking Socialist Flack! :)
These books are thought-provoking and interesting. It sounds like the kids are not being ordered to read them…they can if they want but it’s not required. Normally if it’s part of a curriculum, the teacher will offer options for kids whose parents don’t want them to read it. I suspect it’s the anti-government message that the district doesn’t like.
Meanwhile, it seems like school districts are fine with trannies, black racism, druggie stuff, etc.
“The largest section of the Records Department, far larger than the one on which Winston worked, consisted simply of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books, newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for destruction. A number of the Times which might, because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother, have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other copy existed to contradict it. “
“Books, also, were recalled and rewritten again and again, and were invariably reissued without any admission that any alteration had been made. Even the written instructions which Winston received, and which he invariably got rid of as soon as he had dealt with them, never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed: always the reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to put right in the interests of accuracy.”
—George Orwell, 1984
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#1 posted on 5/25/2021, 7:07:24 AM by Tench_Coxe
I'll have to dig up my copy of Maus, but I don't the nudity. Maybe the Jews/mice were stripped before being killed at the death camps.
I guess if the kids can't handle some low resolution cartoon nudity of mice, maybe they can read The Banality of Evil instead.
Or Rwanda or necklacing in South Africa.
.because the death camps were such happy places.
Now, if you choose 10 books for your library, you have BANNED all other books.
Based on the description alone, I’d agree that the book is not appropriate for 8th grade.
Meanwhile, the artist should be celebrating all this free advertising for his book.
Why isn’t just teaching the facts of the excesses of WWII enough.
It certainly was for us and it was fresh being only 20 years later
I’ll tell you why
Because fascist excess is the biggest tool the left has to handcuff nationalism and conservatism
That’s precisely why
Drilling in Holocaust guilt something you had nothing to do with handcuffs nationalistic pride like no other .....slavery is used similarly
Banning book is stupid. Getting a handle on curriculum is important.
When you “ban” books, you simply draw attention to them.
But controlling the curriculum means that the purpose of assigning books in school is relevant to the course.
I’ve read most of the books on that list. Most of them are lousy reads. I cannot imagine why schools continue to force Catcher in the Rye on children. What a dreadful week of reading that was.