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.
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.