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Pulitzer Prize Winning Maus Censored By Tennessee School District
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sfcityduck

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For context:  My graded copies of the first Maus prototype and the first appearance of any portion of Maus - Prisoner on the Hell Planet - which featured the illustration of Art's dead nude mother (suicide) that is being cited as a reason for the work being unsuitable for an 8th grader:

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FlyingDonut

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A reminder that the characters in Maus who were for banning books are represented by the cats in the graphic novel....and the cats are most definitely not the good guys.

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Anyone I know that has actually read Maus has found it to be a profoundly powerful story using animals as metaphors to examine a very dark period of the 20th century and the fallout afterward.  And I've shared it with plenty of people that don't read comic books and they're reaction was the same.  It is one of the best graphic novels ever made.  Period.

The ignorance and hysteria that some are allowing to run their decision making is getting out of control.  For the first time, I'm concerned about the rewriting of history.  I never was before because it always the lunatic fringe pushing this lunacy.

My plan for dealing with this?  I'm going to find an abandoned set of subway tunnels and stash all the cultural and historical artifacts these people want to burn.  Then I will carefully and meticulously plan their downfall as I don a Guy Fawkes mask.

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On 1/27/2022 at 1:37 PM, Randall Dowling said:

Anyone I know that has actually read Maus has found it to be a profoundly powerful story using animals as metaphors to examine a very dark period of the 20th century and the fallout afterward.  And I've shared it with plenty of people that don't read comic books and they're reaction was the same.  It is one of the best graphic novels ever made.  Period.

The ignorance and hysteria that some are allowing to run their decision making is getting out of control.  For the first time, I'm concerned about the rewriting of history.  I never was before because it always the lunatic fringe pushing this lunacy.

My plan for dealing with this?  I'm going to find an abandoned set of subway tunnels and stash all the cultural and historical artifacts these people want to burn.  Then I will carefully and meticulously plan their downfall as I don a Guy Fawkes mask.

Guy Fawkes is so gauche

I'm going to do it with a Toad mask

 

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It’s important to teach younger generations about the atrocities, especially now that the people that lived it are dying off, and it’s easy to see repetition once the population has no direct physical or psychological connection to such events. Question is, at what age is it appropriate to expose kids to explicit details of the Holocaust?  Maus is a brilliant and powerful work, but still a little sanitised compared to what is seen and discussed in TV and film documentaries.

At the same age in Church of England primary school I was allowed to read fairy tale books that were the original versions with extremely gory illustrations, far worse than Maus, and it calls into question censorship of a work such as this, which, despite the occasional dark scene, is still a less extreme introduction to a reality that shouldn’t be forgotten.

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https://www.annuityexpertadvice.com/states-that-dont-tax-retirement-income/

Well, I guess there goes Tennessee from my list...  :( 

Decision Time - T Minus 3,076 Days

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On 1/27/2022 at 2:59 PM, manetteska said:

Per the article, the book was banned "after officials objected to eight instances of profanity and an image of a nude woman".

Take from that what you will.

Censorship is Censorship 

Sex ed, is, well, education 

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