TN school board bans Maus...

[phrodeau]

Do you think it’s ok to ask high school kids if they’re suicidal?

Vetteman is a parody account.

 

[jomar]

Vetteman is a parody account.

Ah, sheds some light on a bunch of those histrionic right wing posters then

 

[RobDownSouth]

Good essay on the book banning mindset on Salon today:

Money Quote

People are trying to get books like Maus banned because they are afraid that if their children read them, they will have different values than the values their parents want them to have. That’s really what this is about. People are looking at books as dangerous knowledge. In the library field, we say we never know how any individual person will react to a book. But people who ban and challenge books collectivize everybody. They say, “Well, I read this book and it disturbs me.” Or “My child will read this book and they will be disturbed. Therefore, everybody will have this feeling about the book.

The author of Maus, Art Spiegelman, suggests i"t’s actually an attempt to whitewash Holocaust history".

 

[pecksniff]

People are trying to get books like Maus banned because they are afraid that if their children read them, they will have different values than the values their parents want them to have.

Who wants their children to be antisemitic Nazi sympathizers?!

 

[Sean Renaud]

First Rob, I do have a Facebook account. I know what happens when time travelers piss on a rope. Donald Trump dies and Lois Anderson is on his second term as President. Where is Vette! Where is RightGuide. Shouldn't Goth be in here talking about you guys's fee fees!

I'm occasionally neutral around these parts but I'm only allowed to be the bad guy when I'm playing! This sucks. I'ma take a few parting shots cus momma didn't raise a bitch but I'ma take this L.

I’m not even a fan of the book and it pisses me off. Since when have we banned books for teaching kids about history. Roots next?

I've never read the book but one thing that does genuinely bug me here. Has anyone figured out how they got in? I mean I never ran a school library but I assume there is some sort of council. I mean its not just random right?

Who wants their children to be antisemitic Nazi sympathizers?!

I dunno.

I wanna be one of the good guys again!

 

[Pad_Foot]

Do you think it’s ok to ask high school kids if they’re suicidal?

Ummm!??

Ever read “Romeo and Juliette” ?

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Ummm!??

Ever read “Romeo and Juliette” ?

R&J isn't bad on that front. Sure, they die in the end, but they don't go through the play suicidal. Now, Hamlet...

 

[phrodeau]

Maus clearly shows the negative effects on people when someone near to them commits suicide.

The author’s mother isn’t the only suicide in the book. An aunt commits suicide to avoid the Nazi camps, and poisons the author’s brother as well.

 

[jomar]

You must be one sick fuck if you think it's OK for high school kids to read about suicide.

Do you think it’s ok to ask high school kids if they’re suicidal?

Ummm!??

Ever read “Romeo and Juliette” ?

Sure.

But you should ask vetteman, not me.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

https://i.redd.it/cevsnpwz4bf81.png

 

[pecksniff]

Do you think it’s ok to ask high school kids if they’re suicidal?

I'm not convinced teenage suicide should be discouraged.

Hail Thanos!

 

[butters]

Maus was introduced as 8th-grade reading material... 13-14 years old. They are not too young to be exposed to this work.

(Elsewhere in Tennessee, the Nirvana Comics Knoxville shop launched a GoFundMe campaign to supply students with copies of “Maus”; it has raised more than $93,000.)

Art Spiegelman sees the new ban of his book ‘Maus’ as a ‘red alert’
Political cartoonists are trained to find the irony, and Bennett asked himself: “What’s next for the McMinn County School Board: burning the book ‘Fahrenheit 451’?”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/c...us-firestorm/ar-AATn4Jv?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/c...ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&fullscreen=true#image=4

 

[phrodeau]

Maus was introduced as 8th-grade reading material... 13-14 years old. They are not too young to be exposed to this work.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/c...us-firestorm/ar-AATn4Jv?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/c...ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&fullscreen=true#image=4

That’s marrying age in Tennessee.