The Mcminn County School board in Tennessee just voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust
The vote was 10-0
tnholler.com/2022/01/mcminn…
Sadly, this is not an isolated incident. There is a wave of book banning across the nation.
More here: popular.info/p/the-war-on-l…
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Tomorrow is International Holocaust Remembrance Day
This is a useful database of book banning and other censorship efforts across the country
ncac.org/youth-censorsh…
MORE: A Mississippi mayor is "withholding $110,000 of funding from the Madison County Library System" until its libraries purge books w/LGBTQ themes
The mayor calls the books, including an essay collection by Elton John & others, "homosexual materials"
mississippifreepress.org/20068/ridgelan…
UPDATE: @Twitter informs me that it received a complaint about the tweet at the beginning of this thread, pursuant to German Law, but it will not be removed
@Twitter UPDATE: The author of Maus, Art Spiegelman, reacts to his book being banned
"It has the breath of autocracy and fascism"
cnn.com/videos/us/2022…
@Twitter UPDATE: @realchrisrufo, who has fueled anti-CRT hysteria, defends the decision to ban Maus from 8th grade classrooms.
Oddly says that banning the book from the classroom is not a ban.
Book banning is part of a larger strategy.
@Twitter @realchrisrufo Let's go over the facts. Rufo claims the book has been "swapped out." It has not. The board does not have a replacement and the result, according to the board, is the entire module on the Holocaust will be skipped because Maus is the "anchor text."
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