1. The removal of Maus from a Tennessee school board curriculum has to be seen as part of larger trends: the current energized right wing bullying of educators, the wave of challenges to allegedly offensive texts especially graphic novels & the longstanding scandal of comics
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This all goes back to Bill Gaines using amphetamines when he was questioned before Congress. His appearance did not advance his case, and he ended up not publishing comic books anymore. That’s how we got Mad Magazine.
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I have never read Maus, but I remember when it came out in the early 1990s. I would wager that a subtext of why the book was offensive in Tennessee is "the Americanization of the Holocaust". The tendency of some on the social left NOT to preface talk that it didn't happen here.
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I'm pretty sure they said it was about swear words and '"nudity".
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