Community upset over McMinn Co. BOE decision to ban Holocaust book from curriculum (update)

[Jilly_in_VA]

The McMinn County Board of Education voted unanimously to remove a book about the Holocaust from the school curriculum.

The vote was held during a called meeting on January 10.

Board members said the graphic novel called "Maus" by Art Spiegelman has inappropriate language and graphic depictions. In a statement on Facebook Thursday evening, the board said it felt the work was "simply too adult-oriented" to be in schools.

Read the board's (IMNSHO ridiculous) statement and the rest of the article here:
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/mcminn-county-school-board-faces-backlash-for-decision-to-ban-famous-maus-from-school-curriculum/51-aaaea576-7a19-47df-bfab-e9ca0fc5fd8b

A librarian at Tennessee Wesleyan University in McMinn County weighed in on the book-banning. Alex Sharp said the concept of banning books is something librarians have been fighting against for years.

"I'm saying if there is one parent who thinks their child should not read this, that is up to them, that is their prerogative. But, is it fair to tell every child and every parent that they're not allowed to read this book? I don't think so," Sharp said.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Better make that BORE

Board of Re-Education

[obamanut2012]

2. Some DUers agree

Saw it on a thread about this yesterday.

Pro bookbanning in DU!

[Johnny2X2X]

3. The Right has struggled with the Holocaust for generations

It's a blight on their ideals that their ideals were followed to their logical conclusion by the Nazis.

The Nazis were far right religious zealots. They targeted liberals, homosexuals, communists, Jews, and many other groups. The fact Hitler rose under the banner of the National Socialist German Workers' Party is the excuse today's Cons use to pretend the Nazis were leftists. The party was a far right party that created and supported Nazism.

Republicans today are desperate to hide what Nazism really was because the similarities between Hitler's far right nationalism and their own far right nationalism are damning. I think the left is unaware of the extent that the Right has redefined the history of the Nazis to their true believers. It's seeped all the way up to Fox News who regularly talks about the Nazis as leftists. There's an entire generation of Cons in the US who think Hitler was a liberal, it's scary. They're now banning books because they're afraid children will learn the truth of what Far Right fanatics could do here in America.