1. This is a good thread but saying there's no anti-Semitism & Holocaust denialism misses the point since it's very clear from the minutes that the swear words & nudity are pretextual for larger discomfort about a story about the Holocaust.https://twitter.com/CoreyRobin/status/1486726479723393034 …
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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 …
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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
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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
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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 …
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"Children obey and respect parents, period, no exceptions" is a fundamental tenet of conservatism and Maus violates that.
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