Pulitzer Prize Winning Maus Censored By Tennessee School District 6 6

[LudaToke]

Rick Sanchez was right.........School is not for smart people.

I married into a Jewish family and this is on my shelf for when my kids are ready.

[sfcityduck]

On 1/27/2022 at 1:59 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.

What probably did it was one of six panels (one sixth of a page) from the Prisoner of the Hell Planet sequence which shows Art's thoughts about his mother's suicide in a bath (it has the "nude" and the "bad word").  I think 8th graders should be able to handle it::

 

Edited January 27, 2022 by sfcityduck

[HuddyBee]

I mean I guess I can understand not having the book in an elementary schools, but I don't understand the banning of it in a Jr. or Sr. high school.

[Cobbledclam]

They should change their name to

McMinn County Bored of Education. 

[Cobbledclam]

On 1/27/2022 at 12:50 PM, The Meta said:

Guy Fawkes is so gauche

I'm going to do it with a Toad mask

 

I’ll be the Marxist 

[Readcomix]

There’s got to be some boardies and an LCS or two in the area. Let’s chip in and buy enough copies to give every kid in the school a copy on free comic book day. Or on Independence Day. Hopefully local boardies could work with an LCS for a distribution point.

[NoMan]

would now be a good time to buy copies of Maus for upcoming flipping opportunities?

 

Edited January 28, 2022 by NoMan

[Lord Gemini]

Ah, the irony of banning a book about the Holocaust.

[kav]

On 1/27/2022 at 8:58 AM, sfcityduck said:

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:

 

wow I have those books didnt realize funny aminals was worth anything.

[kav]

On 1/27/2022 at 1:29 PM, Ken Aldred said:

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.

I read maus when I was 13 and just look what happened to me!

[kav]

ps them censors had to really pore over the book to find something to ban it for.  We all know the real reason and it wasnt profanity and a nude woman.

[valiantman]

The reality of the 21st century is that nothing can be banned like in the 20th century.  If your school bans Maus, just Google it. The irony is that Maus would not be in the headlines right now, if not for the banning.  So, instead of keeping children from finding Maus, the school board shoves it into everyone's news feed.  Google answers all the questions immediately.

The best way to bring attention to something is to tell people they can't have it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Edited January 28, 2022 by valiantman

[kav]

On 1/27/2022 at 5:20 PM, valiantman said:

The reality of the 21st century is that nothing can be banned like in the 20th century.  If your school bans Maus, just Google it. The irony is that Maus would not be in the headlines right now, if not for the banning.  So, instead of keeping children from finding Maus, the school board shoves it into everyone's news feed.  Google answers all the questions immediately.

The best way to bring attention to something is to tell people they can't have it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

YES!!!
every mom should know if you forbid your teen daughter from seeing some guy she will cling to that guy like crazy!!  
Forbidden guy" "Thx mom!"

[Ijiwaru Sensei]

Too many people have the authoritarian impulse to ban or otherwise censor words, images, and ideas they don't like.

Free speech now and forever!

[snitzer]

Just like with Seuss on eBay and in Northern Virginia last year. Just plain wrong no matter where or why  

[Jesse-Lee]

Just wait until they learn of Spiegelman's other creation - Garbage Pail Kids. Oh the horror!

[grendelbo]

On 1/27/2022 at 6:44 PM, Ijiwaru Sensei said:

Too many people have the authoritarian impulse to ban or otherwise censor words, images, and ideas they don't like.

Free speech now and forever!

 

[jimjum12]

My Funny Animals 1 is still NOT for sale. GOD BLESS .... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Cat]

This is just not right. I'm highly satisfied that they've made Maus subject to the Streisand Effect though. Well done chaps! 

[valiantman]

On 1/28/2022 at 1:03 AM, jimjum12 said:

My Funny Animals 1 is still NOT for sale. GOD BLESS .... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

I'm pretty sure you forfeit the right to own the book if you can't spell "Aminals".