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I hate being so easily astounded by all of this. I think it betrays my age. An East Tennessee school board has banned the Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel Maus. I’m sorry, I’m still figuring blocks out on WordPress but here is the link: https://www.kold.com/2022/01/27/tennessee-school-board-bans-pulitzer-winning-holocaust-book-maus/

Their philosophy seems to be to be, “Pretend we’re just a bunch of Southern hayseeds and we can ban anything we don’t like.” About Maus, School board member Tony Allman said,

It shows people hanging, it shows them killing kids, why does the educational system promote this kind of stuff? It is not wise or healthy.”

There is no way that this yutz is so bloody stupid that he believes author Art Speigeleman and the school administration were promoting genocide. He complained about the cursing in it (less than a dozen words), and about a provocative picture of a woman. The woman was a mouse.

Others said that they believed it was not age appropriate. The fact is, there is no way to teach genocide in a way that does not offend decent people. It was a gigantic, horrible, disturbing indecency. As was the African Diaspora and Enslavement. As was the American Native Genocide. As was the Armenian Genocide. As was the Khymer Rouge genocide in Cambodia. As was the Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda.

There isn’t an inoffensive way to express human cruelty without it appearing cruel. If people are not indignant and offended, it wasn’t taught correctly. One doesn’t have to feel the direct shame of what their culture has done in the past; but denying it happened and denying its effects on the descendants of its victims as well as its perpetrators IS something of which someone should be ashamed. By denying and covering up the crimes of the past, YOU ARE PARTICIPATING IN THEM.

I can only believe that they don’t give a duck’s wet behind about what actually happened, and about who perpetrated it, and for what reasons. I believe what Mr. Allman, et al really want is an opportunity to elevate the so-called Holocaust denial movement to the level of actual scholarship, instead of the naked Jew hating that it clearly is. If you need information on the Holocaust denial Movement, read Debra Lipstadt’s Denying the Holocaust, which is extremely detailed and well-documented. https://www.amazon.com/Denying-Holocaust-Deborah-Lipstadt/dp/0141985518

Oye, gavalt, Out here.