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Conservative activists, led by a local pastor and outspoken Israel advocate, pushed the district, Mission CISD, to excise books mostly about gender, sexuality and race. Their demands represented an extreme version of a nationwide culture war over books that has played out in recent years — and ensnared a number of books with Jewish themes.

In Mission, the long list of books on the chopping block includes a recent illustrated adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary; both volumes of Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust graphic memoir “Maus”; “The Fixer,” Bernard Malamud’s novel about a historical instance of antisemitic blood libel; and “Kasher in the Rye,” a ribald memoir by Jewish comedian Moshe Kasher.

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[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

It's very difficult to avoid comparing right wing America to fascists when they have this much of a problem with Maus.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Diary of Anne Frank? Really?! Dumb shits

[-] didntbuyasquirrel@lemmy.world 69 points 3 days ago

"Jewish themes"...like in the Bible?

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago

i cannot believe how openly anti-nazi some books are! we should burn these intolerant books!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Yeah, but the New Testament says everyone who doesn't worship Jesus is going to burn in hell forever, so that kind of lessens the whole Jewishness of the first half.

[-] Juigi@lemm.ee 48 points 3 days ago

Texas full of whiny bitches seems like

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[-] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 56 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I just can't understand how someone could think that banking books is a good idea.

edit: sorry banning not banking

[-] Spazz@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 days ago

Fucking conservatives

[-] ben_dover@lemmy.ml 86 points 3 days ago

the nazis also banned books they didn't agree with

[-] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 52 points 3 days ago

Which you can learn about....in Maus. Ffs.

[-] exanime@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago

well the USA was circling the drain after Trump's first win... they are now at the toilet gargling stage

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[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 232 points 4 days ago

Are conservatives activists so concerned with information related to living under Nazism because they don't want young people to be able to recognize the steps if those steps occur to young people today?

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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 195 points 4 days ago

local pastor and outspoken Israel advocate

Anne Frank’s diary

Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust graphic memoir

Israel advocate

Anne Frank’s diary

Israel advocate

Anne Frank’s diary

You fucking disgrace

Get out of my country

For some reason this made me way more irrationally angry than just killing Palestinians. It’s killing Palestinians and running cover for the people who killed Anne Frank and Spiegelman’s brother, and doing it all at the exact same time with no sense of shame or embarrassment but, I’m sure, a smug sense of superiority like everyone else is the monster in this

This guy better really hope that there isn’t a hell

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 103 points 4 days ago

Hey man. If it looks like a Nazi, walks like a Nazi and quacks like a Nazi, it's probably a Nazi

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[-] hexabs@lemmy.world 67 points 3 days ago

I simply cannot wrap my head around this. How is this defensible? What possible justification could they provide for banning Maus?? Anne's Diary?? How could you even link these to any contemporary agenda?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 38 points 3 days ago

Because they're fucking Nazis, how many ways do they need to prove it to you?

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

See, us Jews control Hollywood, so all of that is just PR messaging about our Holocaust lie. And we also control the banks, so we're the ones buying these books and bribing school librarians to put them on the shelves. Whereupon, I guess, something about the trans agenda happens? I'm a cishet Jew, so I'm only up on our side of the conspiracy.

[-] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

It's amazing that Republicans are both pro-Israel and anti-Jew at the same time.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

There's a reason for that, which I mentioned in a post elsewhere in the thread:

“Outspoken Israel advocates” who are evangelical Christians don’t love Jews. Quite the opposite. They need Israel to exist so all Jews in the world can be forcibly deported to it, and then made to rebuild the Great Temple, so Jesus can come back and throw them all into Hell.

And a red cow comes into the picture as well.

None of that is sarcasm. That is really what they think.

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[-] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 3 days ago

'Never again' is now.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 82 points 4 days ago
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