The district in the Rio Grande Valley immediately agreed with activists who said the books were “filthy and evil.”

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.

  • huntrss@feddit.de
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    4 months ago

    I live in one of many streets in Germany named after Anne Frank. Banning an illustrated version of Anne Frank’s Dairy is horryfying to me.

  • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl
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    4 months ago

    This is really hard to believe. I don’t doubt that it happened. I just don’t get the thought process behind that action.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      I just don’t get the thought process behind that action.

      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.

    • motor_spirit@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      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.

    • paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Typically, a school district would require book challengers to go through a formal challenge process in which each individual book would be assessed for merit. Instead, five minutes after receiving the demands, Perez agreed to them.

      It’s easy if you don’t give a shit.

  • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Go ahead Pro Israel activists. Vote Republican.

    Those Nazi antisemites will love you even after you have given them all your money.

    • underisk@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      What do you mean? Clearly it’s people on the left that are antiemetic because they point out Israel does war crimes and genocide. As we all know criticizing the Zionist project is the same exact thing as wanting to murder all Jews because you think they secretly control the world.