Posted on 08/17/2022 5:31:49 AM PDT by 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.’”
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Nor did I that I can remember.
Only if they are thinking about someone else's genitalia. That is especially true if there are children running about.
Almost everyone has read Anne Franks's diary. It's a short, simple read. There is nothing offensive. Probably anyone from grade 5 up can easily read it.
The problem is that we have an "urban" demographic which is functionally illiterate with no desire to learn. We have an identifiable "urban" demographic where if they can read a comic book, they deserve a gold star.
Good genetics are so important. And the poor "urbans" are severely lacking in that department.
God gave out gifts in various ways. Some can shoot hoops and jump and run. Others demographic groups develop cancer cures and excel at nuclear physics.
Anne Frank had a teenage crush on a fellow. Oh the horror! — a teenage girl with a crush on a fellow! Nothing even remotely pornographic. It is spitting on Anne Frank's grave for the comic book producers to introduce homosexuality and porno into Anne's short tragic life — a complete lie. How disgusting is that!?
Some years ago, a new edition of Anne Frank’s diary was released with additional chapters that had been excluded from the previous printings. These new chapters included Anne’s musing about her growing sexuality and are pretty explicit, thus they had been left out of earlier editions, probably due to more stringent moral standards of yesteryear, and because the sex stuff took away from the impact of the horrors of Nazi abuse.
One of my favorite urban legends has to do with a performance of the play “The Diary of Anne Frank.” A critic’s review was reported that actress _____’s portrayal of Anne Frank was so bad that when the Germans came in searching for her, audience members yelled “she’s in the attic!”
I married one. It was twenty years in hell, but I finally divorced her.
An MS in Library Science? I know a couple.
“I knew by the fifth grade that you can’t trust a librarian.:
Easy now, my wife is a school librarian and the most conservative person I know. She makes Genghis Khan seem liberal.
This is a new version supposedly based on a secret version.
Its pretty much soft core porn in parts.
Yep, and MS. She and her friends all seemed insane.
Oh, I think you can. Just not some gayed-up version that focuses on deviant sex.
I read it also and saw the original movie. Not a hint of anything sexual. Sounds like an antisemitic witch hunt to me.
The dumbing down of America has shifted into FULL RETARD MODE. Censorship rules in communist countries. It has to or communism is dead.
Older printings of the book were overseen by Ann’s father and he edited out the sexual content. Newer printing contain the whole uncut diary which does have coming of age sexual content. I think the newer version was released in the 90s.
The school has a procedure in place for reviewing any books that are challenged by parents.
This not not the original book at all, and probably should be removed.
Yes, even the Bible has been challenged. That does not mean it will ultimately be removed.
It’s written in her handwriting.
I think her father had the right idea. It would not have caught fire the way it did if it read like Ulysses or Naughty Nuns, or something. The uncut version may be appropriate for a college audience, but not kids.
You are correct.
This nonsense is based on a couple of references and jokes Anne Frank had in her diary, which she taped over with masking tape (and they read by back lighting). Here they are:
In the passage on sex, Anne described how a young woman gets her period around age 14, saying that it is “a sign that she is ripe to have relations with a man but one doesn’t do that of course before one is married.”
On prostitution, she wrote: “All men, if they are normal, go with women, women like that accost them on the street and then they go together. In Paris they have big houses for that. Papa has been there.”
One of her jokes also referred to war-time prostitution in her hometown: “Do you know why the German Wehrmacht girls are in Holland? As mattresses for the soldiers.”
There are also passages she deleted from her final draft, mainly about her love for Peter.
“Older printings of the book were overseen by Ann’s father and he edited out the sexual content.”
Not exactly. She personally rewrote passages about her mom and her love for Peter.
The father didn’t edit them out; he chose the final version she was satisfied with.
I may not be interpreting the article correctly, but I think even the newer version of “The Diary of Anne Frank” is still allowed. I think the version that is being removed is illustrated in a graphic manner that some found unsuitable for teenagers.
Again, I could be wrong. The article is a little lacking in details.
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