Why would conservatives want that removed? It’s a classic, true story. I don’t get this at all if true.
The freezer here is too cold to respond.
Freezers?
I need a copy.
It’s a graphic adaption of the diary...not the diary as a whole.
This sounds like an LGBT activist being spiteful.
“If we can’t have ‘Richard has 17 Daddies’ or Transgender Kindergarten!” in our library, then you can have your Bible or the story of Anne Frank.
So there!!”
Not the diary - a comic book adaptation that contains graphic images of a sexual nature
Sick bastards. The Cauliphonya extreme far lefties are here to dumb down the kids in Texas.
I saw it in another article. It’s “The Diary of Anne Frank Graphic Novel” that is being removed for review.
Another article says a particular illustrated version of The Diary of Anne Frank was removed:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4086246/posts
What did the illustrations depict? That’s the question.
Clickbait title. The diary isn’t being removed. Got us to look, though.
The article is deceptive. They are not telling you that the particular adaptation is fairly recent and has added elements that, in the past were not part of the officially published final version. specifically parts about sexuality. While there are 3 versions and one of the originals included such elements keep in mind this newer “adapted” version was likely chosen specifically because it addressed sexual elements.
So you see there is a subtext to this that the book was banned because it was likely adapted to included current LGBT+ themes and not for the inherent literary value. In fact one could argue they have instead detracted from the literary value to promote more contempered ideologies in the adaptation in question.
Thus a somewhat different reason for the banning. I do not support banning books at all but I do support banning subversion of literary works.
The school district has a new board that has updated the guidelines for responding for books that are challenged. All books challenged will be removed, then reinstated if they meet the guidelines. This is about an illustrated version of the diary. From a previous administrator, “ … 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.” There you go.
Anne Frank’s diary was published in a “family friendly” form back in the late 1950’s.
This current “version” is something else entirely although I don’t claim to know all details.
What I do know is that in recent years some unpublished parts of Anne Frank’s writings about sex and prostitution have emerged in the public domain.
She even wrote down some “dirty jokes” like one about women in the German military being “mattresses”.
She was a victim of the Holocaust and the Holocaust was an ugly thing it was pornographic in its nature naked people having their private parts shaved, the mass murder of people without their clothes on (snuff porn).
Putting that into schools could be disturbing IMHO.
From the article itself : “it’s easy to imagine it replacing the [original] ‘Diary’ in classrooms and among younger readers.” “
And that is most likely exactly what the libs are trying to do... replace the original.
I need a copy of the ORIGINAL, not the porn version. I read it as a preteen.
The complaint was that the book shouldn’t be read without parent supervision. It was suspected that the parent who made the complaint 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. The Keller Independent School District is a K-12 public school district and I believe that an age appropriate problem within the libraries that can access this book might be a problem.
Don’t we have rating systems for our movies and magazines like Playboy, Hustler, or Penthouse to keep them age appropriate? And at the same time shouldn’t we consider that the availability of a training aid in a library, these are school libraries, which can’t be controlled and has been questioned for many years may not be appropriate for younger children? And when you have 41 schools and 31K students, how do you control it? I somehow can’t see an adult reading section in a primary education level school library.
And I also can’t see the reasoning of funding books that are not consistent within the best interests of the younger kids who aren’t ready to decipher sexual content based upon the wishes of the parents. All it turns into at that point the availability of sexual instruction without the decision of the parents. When the schools have health (?) instruction for the kids it is normally done with a special class and is cleared by the parents. By making a foggy version of the class available in a library with no proper guidance, it becomes pornography and not a learning tool.
Wy69
If based on the other comments here the real issue is that this was a degeneratively imaginative pornographic work and not simply Anne’s literary work, this stands as a good example of how the media lies and twists things dramatically to suit their sick purposes.