Posted on 08/26/2022 11:04:50 AM PDT by artichokegrower
The Keller Independent School District returned the 2019 graphic adaptation to schools on Monday after an uproar from heated Jewish groups Simon Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League, among other Jewish leaders criticized the board for removing the graphic novel The book was removed after parents complained about 'unwanted sexual references and mention of homosexuality' Some parents threatened to send enough copies of the novel to fill every district library
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Perhaps there are genuine Jews, and there are also Jews In Name Only (JINO's)?
I have yet to see a graphic novel of any sort that is suitable for a school of any age category.
If they want kids to learn about Anne Frank they need to tell them to read the book. PERIOD.
Have you ever seen the Classics Illustrated versions of literature? Some are pretty good and none were vile.
This one is good: Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
What sexual references?
There are none in the play.
I performed the part of Mrs. Von Damme in the play (Community Theater.)
...several decades ago.
There was only a sweet “first love” romance going on.
These trashy graphic novels destroy everything. They should be banned from school libraries.
Oh, those things were great-—friend of mine in town is selling a big comic book collection from the 60s and I;ve seen them all and he’s got a dozen of those Classics Illustrated.I was first exposed to them when a kid who came to our grade school who’d been living in Cuba with his Businessman father and mother, left and came to live in Chicagoland area in 1959-60. He had dozens of them.
Oh, those things were great-—friend of mine in town is selling a big comic book collection from the 60s and I;ve seen them all and he’s got a dozen of those Classics Illustrated.I was first exposed to them when a kid who came to our grade school who’d been living in Cuba with his Businessman father and mother, left and came to live in Chicagoland area in 1959-60. He had dozens of them.
I’m still waiting for Hollywood to remake The Diary of Ann Frank and cast a black lesbian as Ann.
I've not seen this particular edition nor am I likely to. Illustrations are fine, the foundation has put out it's own illustrated edition, and I suspect they might have approved of this one as they're protective of the name.
I'd note that there are 2/3 versions of the diary.
version A, her original diary.
version B, the edited version. By Anne herself. She's said to have heard a broadcast in 1944 by, I think the Netherlands government in exile but perhaps another, asking that all diaries, written records also, be preserved for post war historical value. Having literary ambitions, and likely a concern for privacy, she edited her own diary. She treated her mother more kindly in the edited version. She mad sure all entries were addressed to Kitty. She edited much of her first 6 months of writing, probably having an actual vision might survive publicly rather than a girl's diary. And yes, she edited out entries pertaining to her thoughts on sex, love, and two (I think) boys she had a crush on and one girl, though much in the nature of friendship. I think the only omitted sexual entries related to one boy. Musings, not actual contact.
version C, a version edited by her father combining A and B, also making his own omissions.
This isn't the first school district to ban the diary but there haven't been many. IMO it's a school district's prerogative. But given the fact that the foundation hasn't weighed in I'd guess there's nothing fabricated. That said, there is an age appropriate issue here, not just for the illustrated version.
Classics Illustrated were marvelous books!
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The overwhelming majority of them are leftist.
I think the bigger problem is the censorship aspect of this whole thing. Yes I agree children should not be reading books unsuitable for their age. However to ban everything a group might disagree with is pushing the envelope.
What if a group decides the Bible should be not be displayed anywhere? Or maybe the Bill of Rights is judged to radical for some other group?
Where and how do we draw a line that is reasonable but is not censorship...which I will not support in any form.
two issues here, at least
1. yes, some American Jews are stupid when it comes to politics (supporting every hard leftist “cause” that comes down the pike — without any sigificant thought or even regard for Biblical/Jewish moral teachings) .... these are mostly the so-called “reform” Jews... just like how the hard core leftists/xommunists/Nazis/IslamoNazis have infiltrated and seized control of churches like PCUSA and dozens more, alas. This is the larger and more general problem we face in USA society,
and
2. the particular “graphic novel” -— while it is about Ann Frank (a story that all people, adults and children, should know and know well....) this “graphic” novel is, well, quite a talent piece or work but still it is rather “graphic” -— and it is not at all unreasonable for an educator or school board to decide it belongs in high school, say, and not in the second grade.
There are other books and other ways to teach the Ann Frank part of history to smaller children, just fine thank you.
THUS, it would be unfair (or at least premature) to suppose that the school board acted out of antisemitic bias.
Unless someone knows facts that I just happpen not to have seen in the media, that is.
Just my 2 cents.
Very reasonable assessment, I say. No knee-jerking as has become too prevalent everywhere.
I’m glad that it was reinstated. It should never have been removed in the first place.
A passage from Saul Bellow’s masterful Mr. Sammler’s Planet:
The pickpocket had tried to brace himself on his elbows. His body now rested on his doubled arms. He bled thickly on the asphalt.
“I am horrified!” Sammler said.
Eisen, still handsome, curly, still with the smile, though now panting, and the peculiar set of the toeless feet, seemed amused at Sammler’s ludicrous inconsistency.
He said, “You can’t hit a man like this just once. When you hit him you must really hit him. Otherwise he’ll kill you. You know. We both fought in the war. You were a Partisan. You had a gun. So don’t you know?”
His laughter, his logic, laughing and reasoning at Sammler’s absurdities, made him repeat until he stuttered. “If in — in. No? If out- out. Yes? No? So answer.”
Christians are not all perfect.
Jews are not all perfect.
I don’t want to telegraph the wrong message here, because
I obviously no do not see Ann Frank as anywhere near
Biblical, but the anti-Christ seeks to destroy all that
is wholesome.
The Left has long sought to make Christ a homosexual
figure. Should we be shocked that they do the same
thing to Ann Frank? I mean, it’s almost a badge of
honor that they seek to denigrate her.
She’s in good company there.
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