cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16956532
Conservative activists, led by a local pastor and outspoken Israel advocate, pushed the district, Mission CISD, to excise books mostly about gender, sexuality and race. Their demands represented an extreme version of a nationwide culture war over books that has played out in recent years — and ensnared a number of books with Jewish themes.
In Mission, the long list of books on the chopping block includes a recent illustrated adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary; both volumes of Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust graphic memoir “Maus”; “The Fixer,” Bernard Malamud’s novel about a historical instance of antisemitic blood libel; and “Kasher in the Rye,” a ribald memoir by Jewish comedian Moshe Kasher.
This is really hard to believe. I don’t doubt that it happened. I just don’t get the thought process behind that action.
It’s easy if you don’t give a shit.
Republicans are usually some combo of ignorant fucking morons, straight up evil, financially motivated, or fascist. Get these people together and it’s basically a poker table of grifters conspiring for whatever their awful agenda may be. Add the leveraging of children’s education, fear, ignorance on the books themselves… you’ve got it.
There are no more rules once Republicans take over.
Quite the opposite. Lots and lots of rules for everyone except them.
1 - I am a perfect being who can do no wrong.
2 - Someone says I do something bad, or that something I do isn’t perfect
3 - since I am perfect, they must be lying.
4 - there is no reason to lie other than pure evil.
5 - therefore everyone and anything that disagrees with me is the devil and must be destroyed.
They want holocaust 2.
Already happening under a different regime.