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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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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They want kids to think the Holocaust was that time Hitler made everyone get their mumps shots or whatever.
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So true. I think they want to teach WW2/Holocaust as critical step in American greatness. Full stop. Nothing about the precipitating effects or other actors. Complicates narratives (i.e., Soviets good, Nazis learned genocide from us).
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Also, every parent who advocates this took their middle school kids to see "American Sniper" on opening night.
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I’m sorry! Have you read Diary of Ann Frank and Corrie Ten Booms autobiographies? We read those in high school! We understood the horrific autrociyoes of the Holocaust! Maybe...just maybe your younger generations teachers were the ones denying you the REAL impact of the autrocity
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And furthermore....my generation and those to my generation ALSO were close to those affected by it in REAL case senators! So don’t push the problem to the parents my age and older! It’s the kids we raised who apparently were too far removed from the crimes and now
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