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‘Maus’ Sales Surge After Tennessee School District Bans The Holocaust Graphic Novel
Firbes ^ | 1/30/22 | Carlie Piterfeild

Posted on 01/30/2022 4:39:46 PM PST by Impala64ssa

Titles from Maus – a Pulitzer Prize-winning series about the Holocaust – made up nearly half of Amazon’s 10 best-selling comics and graphic novels Friday after one of the books was controversially banned by a Tennessee school district.

was released, a collection of the complete Maus titles is the top-selling graphic novel on Amazon, and it’s ranked 16th on the platform’s list of best-selling books from all genres.

Maus I, a Maus I and Maus II paperback box set and Maus II are also all in the top 10 of Amazon’s graphic novel best sellers.

The surge in sales followed a vote by a school board in Tennessee to ban Maus in its eighth-grade classrooms over what they claimed was the novel’s “unnecessary use of profanity and nudity” and depictions of violence and suicide, according to a statement from the district

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: antiperversionban; cry; education; holocaust; jewishpinglist; maus; tennessee; trashybooks; usebookswithnonudity
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
None of those books are "banned" or "censored." They're best sellers, available in bookstores all over the West, heavily promoted, and often mandatory reading in schools.

Some obscure, small town Christian minister complains about a book, and the New York publishing establishment, libraries, and activists groups scream "Censorship!" and promote it at their "I read banned books!" events.

Meanwhile, all sorts of right-of-center books are quietly delisted on Amazon (disappearing, as though they never existed), and not one peep.

41 posted on 01/30/2022 10:26:12 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: dfwgator
I always note, that no Poles served as guards in the death camps, plenty of Ukrainians did.

In the 1930s the Soviets genocided 7 to 11 million Ukrainians. A Holocaust by any standard. So naturally, the Ukrainians saw the Germans as liberators. The same as the Jews saw the Soviets in 1945.

When you're being genocided, you don't pay too close attention to who's liberating you

42 posted on 01/30/2022 10:34:14 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: dfwgator

I have both read and listened to Murrows account of Buchenwald before. When we studied WW2 in school our teacher used his account of the conditions there and accounts of Auschwitz and other camps.

Büchenwald translated is Beech forest.
Very soothing sounding, isn’t it.
Thank you for the link.


43 posted on 01/31/2022 2:17:46 AM PST by oldvirginian (So if a cow doesn’t produce milk, is it a milk dud or an udder failure?)
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To: Does so

Too late... Ha...


44 posted on 01/31/2022 2:37:31 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegience to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: dfwgator

The Nazis may have been beady-eyed violent tyrants, but they weren’t stupid!


45 posted on 01/31/2022 3:50:52 AM PST by rlmorel (Nothing can foster principles of freedom more effectively than the imposition of tyranny.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

The problem with things like this is some kids can handle it in 8th grade and some can not.


Gezz, kids back in my day had no problem with that stuff - and back then it was on every news reel before the movie. Later on, there were whole hours of it on TV when there were only 3 stations (if you were lucky). That may just show how out of touch with the natural world, how over-protected kids are these days.

Kids can take anything and thrive. Over-protection is what harms them.


46 posted on 01/31/2022 4:02:04 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: dfwgator
I always note, that no Poles served as guards in the death camps, plenty of Ukrainians did.

Because for the Ukrainians, Stalin's atrocities against them were still fresh. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/25/russia.books

47 posted on 01/31/2022 4:15:52 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: PIF
I have seen those news reels and TV shows.

No. They were completely "sanitized for your protection". Yes, even the stuff for adults.

Kids can take anything and thrive. Over-protection is what harms them.

The Teachers Union agrees with you. That is why they are pushing teaching kids about sodomy and kink when they are in kindergarten. Kids can take anything and thrive.

48 posted on 01/31/2022 7:04:52 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I have seen those news reels and TV shows.


When you were a kid? Or when you were an adult?

As for the Teachers Unions, they have a different agenda and are not about educating kids, but about turning them into Dem voters and fodder for perverts.

I suppose I should have said something different, but I was going with the topic of the holocaust, not perversion..


49 posted on 01/31/2022 7:48:39 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Impala64ssa

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


50 posted on 01/31/2022 8:01:04 AM PST by wardaddy (1-20-21 if ever a day needed a reckoning settled with blood....I'm with Bannon)
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To: Rinnwald

Me either since I was a lad when it came out

As an adult I realized the agit prop it is

Many posters here in their perennial gullibility and need to be up to snuff on race

And view To Kill A Mockingbird and Deliverance as documentaries on the South


51 posted on 01/31/2022 8:14:44 AM PST by wardaddy (1-20-21 if ever a day needed a reckoning settled with blood....I'm with Bannon)
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To: Impala64ssa

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.


52 posted on 01/31/2022 8:19:07 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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