‘Maus’ Hysteria Distracts from the Left’s Own Censorship

[Kamaji]

‘Maus’ Hysteria Distracts from the Left’s Own Censorship

  The uproar over Maus is hyperbolic to say the least. Liberals are fixated on it in order to pretend they are still the rebels fighting against the man.

By Paul Bradford
February 2, 2022

Fascism allegedly reared its ugly head in America last month. In an act that may go down as the beginning of America banning literacy, the McMinn County (Tennessee) School Board dropped the Holocaust-themed graphic novel Maus from its 8th-grade reading curriculum.

Yes, this inconsequential act became one of the biggest news stories in the country. Media outlets covered it like the entire South had just forbidden all kids from ever reading Maus. Journalists pulled its author, Art Spiegelman, on primetime television to denounce the powers-that-be in McMinn County. The incident was held up as proof that the real cancel culture comes from the Right. The Left would apparently never ban books.

The outrage is ridiculous. Even though all the coverage centers around how McMinn County “banned” the book, the school board did no such thing. The board merely dropped it from its 8th-grade curriculum. The reason was fairly harmless. The officials thought the book—which features profanity, violence, and some nudity–—wasn’t appropriate for 8th graders. That’s a debatable claim, but it’s not Orwellian. It’s not like the school board wanted to ban the book to prevent their kids from learning about the Holocaust. Nor will the school prevent students from reading the easy-to-find book on their own.

In other words, what McMinn County school trustees did is not a ban at all. It’s just a local school decision.

You would think McMinn County is the epicenter of American cultural life based on the coverage. In reality, McMinn is a rural county where the average income is lower than the national average. A little more than 50,000 people live in the East Tennessee county.

So why was a minor curriculum decision a national crisis for a week? Because liberals want to shift attention away from their own indoctrination model in schools.

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Source:  https://amgreatness.com/2022/02/02/maus-hysteria-distracts-from-the-lefts-own-censorship/

[DefiantMassRINO]

Did they at least replace "Maus" with "The Diary of Anne Frank" on the 8th grade reading curriculum?

That usually shuts people up.

To liberals, removing items from the school curriculum is akin to censorship because it thwarts their efforts to use school curriculum to create the next generation Global Climate Change, Critical Race Theory army of radical social justice warriors.

[mountaineer]

Meanwhile, the snooze media breathlessly report that "To Kill a Mockingbird" has been banned in Washington state, but don't mention it was Democrats, not conservative book-burners, who took that action - on the grounds that the "n-word" appears in the book and it may upset the little darlings.

[Kamaji]

Meanwhile, the snooze media breathlessly report that "To Kill a Mockingbird" has been banned in Washington state, but don't mention it was Democrats, not conservative book-burners, who took that action - on the grounds that the "n-word" appears in the book and it may upset the little darlings.

Of course.