Texas: Version of Anne Frank's diary to be removed from shelves

Israel National News ^ | 8/17/22 | Andrew Lapin

[ToxicMasculinity]

A school district in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, has ordered its librarians to remove an illustrated adaptation of, “The Diary of Anne Frank,” from their shelves and digital libraries, along with the Bible and dozens of other books that were challenged by parents last year.

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“It’s disgusting. It’s devastating. It’s legitimate book banning, there’s no way around it,” Laney Hawes, a parent of four children in the Keller district, told JTA about the order. “I feel bad for the teachers and the librarians.”

“Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation,” by Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman and illustrator David Polonsky, is a 2019 illustrated adaptation of the bestselling diary by the teenage Holocaust victim. The New York Times called the book “so engaging and effective that it’s easy to imagine it replacing the [original] ‘Diary’ in classrooms and among younger readers.”

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“When we got, ‘The Diary of Anne Frank,’ we thought, ‘This is a joke.’ But it wasn’t,” Hawes said, adding that the complaint was that “the book shouldn’t be read without parent supervision.” She suspected that the parent may have objected to the unabridged diary’s references to female genitalia, same-sex attraction and other sexual matters, which have been deemed “pornographic” by parental challenges in the past....

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“Right now, Keller ISD’s administration is asking our campus staff and librarians to review books that were challenged last year to determine if they meet the requirements of the new policy,” the district said in a statement to JTA when reached for comment. “Books that meet the new guidelines will be returned to the libraries as soon as it is confirmed they comply with the new policy.”

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One teacher called her in tears. “She said it: ‘I can’t even let them read ‘The Diary of Anne Frank.’”

[ToxicMasculinity]

I read Anne Frank and never saw anything about same-sex coupling or female genitalia.

The whole story sounds contrived. The school board was to remove a specific illustrated version of Anne Frank, temporarily, and they're making it sound like any and all editions of the book are banned for good.

[ComputerGuy]

I knew by the fifth grade that you can’t trust a librarian.

[NetAddicted]

I read Anne Frank’s Diary 3 or 4 times. Yep, they’re pornograhizing Anne Frank.

[liberalh8ter]

The fight the left has waged using our children will only result in the children being the losers. Damn the left.

[struggle]

Well, it was written by her father...

[Lizavetta]

and they're making it sound like any and all editions of the book are banned for good.

Just like they deliberately mischaracterized the Florida bill to keep all sexual matters out of grades K through 3 by calling it the "don't say gay" bill.

[ToxicMasculinity]

Frenchy’s on the corner of Fulton and Broadway in Manhattan is the best portable used book store I’ve ever frequented. He’s friendly, informative, and has all the great literature that libraries are no longer interested in. In fact, I’ve seen Anne Frank in his inventory more than once. He fits everything on a small table that he folds up at the end of the day.

Libraries? A quaint idea by Ben Franklin, from back in the days when books were always made of paper.

[Sans-Culotte]

We read the play in school and I have seen the movie. I’ve never read the actual diary. There was certainly none of that in the play or the film (which was based on the play). Even if she did write that in the diary, it should probably be censored from a grade school version of the diary. Also, it is an inclusion on Anne’s privacy to reveal private and intimate adolescent thoughts she would never have expressed in public.

[ViLaLuz]

They’re talking about a young adult comic book adaptation (graphic novel) of the classic. I’ve found most of those adaptations to be vehicles of indoctrination.

[ToxicMasculinity]

She was an adolescent girl. She had the hots for Peter and vice versa, and at her age she probably bled once a month. That’s all we know about her private life, other than what her best friend who survived has told us years later. She probably died a virgin.

[Leaning Right]

> “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation,” by Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman and illustrator David Polonsky <

Huh? Anne Frank had a diary, a simple diary. Let age-appropriate kids read that diary. Why must a filmmaker and an illustrator be involved?

I’m guessing that they put their own spin on the diary, which of course would be very inappropriate.

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

Graphic novels are one tool the Commies use to subvert the parents’ control over children......................

[BobL]

If a school district in the US (as opposed to Hungary or Russia) is fighting to keep a book available to minors, I know which side I’m taking!

[Codeflier]

It’s not the Diary of Anne Frank. It is a loose comic book adaptation with homosexuality as one of its themes.

[bk1000]

Does the left ever think about anything except their genitalia?
Perhaps it is that fascination that is the core of their dumbassery.

[ClearCase_guy]

“By the end of today, I need all books pulled from the library and classrooms,” wrote Jennifer Price, Keller ISD’s executive director of curriculum and instruction.

I'd like to know more about this person.

I think the unstated implication is that this is some "super Conservative / Christian fanatic" who hates sex.

But I wonder if it's more like a "communist educator" who is stirring the pot and getting people angry about book banning -- so that she can start stocking the shelves with truly objectionable material (which people will then be afraid to object to).

The Left is crafty.

[EEGator]

I saw her diary in Amsterdam. It was eerily quiet.

[HKMk23]

The “tell” is that the Bible is also a target.
Lotta more explicit stuff in the Bible than Anne Frank ever put on paper.

[dfwgator]