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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 27

      Jeet Heer Retweeted corey robin

      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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      corey robinVerified account @CoreyRobin
      3. As others have pointed out, there is no anti-Semitism or Holocaust denialism here. And not because the book's opponents are being shy or careful about expressing their views. They really just hate the curse words and sexual suggestiveness of anything nude, which is
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 27

      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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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 27

      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

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 27

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Jane Coaston

      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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      Jane CoastonVerified account @janecoaston
      I'd like to note here that this is what the "nudity" in "Maus" looks like. pic.twitter.com/JrJfDKEpxx
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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 27

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 27

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 27

      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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        1. Mike Hess‏ @chalknet Jan 27
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          What do you expect from some Snope Monkey trial in-breds?

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        2. Raven Onthill mstdn @ravenonthill@mastodon.social.‏ @RavenOnthill Jan 27
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          Why did anybody take Cory Robin seriously after he told us Trump wouldn’t be so bad?

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        3. Raven Onthill mstdn @ravenonthill@mastodon.social.‏ @RavenOnthill Jan 29
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          Raven Onthill mstdn @ravenonthill@mastodon.social. Retweeted Raven Onthill mstdn @ravenonthill@mastodon.social.

          https://twitter.com/RavenOnthill/status/1487436283202834434?s=20&t=V6zQBLZabUEhBRJB9IN6Qw …

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          Raven Onthill mstdn @ravenonthill@mastodon.social. @RavenOnthill
          @ CoreyRobin is an accelerationist ass.
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        1. billiecat‏ @billiecat Jan 27
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          When I was in highschool I remember seeing some film from the death camps. It made me physically ill. Possibly not coincidentally, I have never denied the Holocaust or thought it was a joke. Sometimes education requires you to be uncomfortable.

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        1. Evo Morales & The Big Steppers‏ @ElonMusgraves Jan 27
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          is it though? this to me feels much more apiece of the evolution of holocaust historiography since the 1960s. the six day war completely transformed its popular articulation into something of valorisation, opening the door to PG-rating it for mass consumption

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        2. Jeremy Roussel‏ @JeremyRoussel Jan 27
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Small typo in the article. Jane Coasten is miss-named as Joan Coasten.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 27
          Replying to @JeremyRoussel

          Fixed

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        1. E.D.James‏ @EDJames19959020 Jan 27
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Good, but you appear to leave something important unsaid. Don't you attribute these freakouts to a refusal to acknowledge and reconcile with the nation's past, or else just bristling at any reminder of identifying or having identified with sordid or bigoted impulses and beliefs?

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        1. Harry Tuttle - Antifa™ HVAC Dept.‏ @howievermont Jan 27
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          I wonder how they feel about kids reading the Bible???

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