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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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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The prudish people think nudity itself is the problem; context is irrelevant.
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They're mice.
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Or, in a different scene, Art's mother being found naked in a bathtub, having slit her own wrists. Also not salacious or sexual
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Wait - this is it? This is the nudity complained about? SMH they all need to visit the Holocaust Museum and read some damn history books.
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Not only did it happen, but it was a tactic designed to humiliate people, dehumanize them, and exercise raw power over them. So Maus is conveying a part of the story.
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