2. I would encourage reading the actual transcripts because it's very explicit board members think grade 8 students should read about "It shows people hanging, it shows them killing kids" -- i.e. it's about the Holocaust.pic.twitter.com/Et1PTakiSQ
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2. I would encourage reading the actual transcripts because it's very explicit board members think grade 8 students should read about "It shows people hanging, it shows them killing kids" -- i.e. it's about the Holocaust.pic.twitter.com/Et1PTakiSQ
3. The other area of objection is Maus shows how fraught Art Spiegelman's relationship is with father -- which is part of what makes the book great. It's about how suffering doesn't ennoble but causes trauma that ripples through generations.pic.twitter.com/6rlScqyZK2
4. Also the board members constantly talk about the "nudity" in Maus as if its salacious and sexual (this Spiegleman fellow worked for Playboy) when, as @janecoaston noted the nudity is of death camp prisoners being stripped naked, which actually happenedhttps://twitter.com/janecoaston/status/1486472862655516678 …
5. So the position of the school board is they are ok with kids learning about Holocaust so long as there are no hangings, no kids being killed, no intergenerational trauma & no scenes of naked prisoners. Which is the same as saying they don't want kids to learn about Holocaust
6. I would encourage people to read the school board minutes because beyond the decision to remove Maus it reveals a fundamental desire to avoid confronting the reality of the Holocaust. That's not Holocaust denial but it is a deeply anti-intellectual & harmful
7. The aversion to teaching the darker details about the Holocaust is very similar to the freakout over 1619 & history of slavery in general. It's about much more than swear words or nudity. More here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/maus-in-tennessee?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=emai …
It’s nude mice for goodness sakes.
Completely agree that one picture of nude mice is not triggering for them
And again, not human nudity, but nudity of anthropomorphic mice rendered in marginal detail
With their crotches mostly covered too, it's not like there's --- *flails* nevermind, the whole thing is in such bad faith.
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