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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]ust as an example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird have both been widely banned, despite being classics of American Literature with considerable teaching value.

Maus is not remotely on their level.[/quote]

DP.  It wasn't the "right" that banned those books.
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Depends on when you are talking about.

Certainly both drew heat from racists/segregationists (Democrats) when they were published.

More recently they have been getting banned by people who don't like their use of a specific word and aspects of how they portray African Americans.

...but that was my point.  Book "banning" is not new and is common on both ends of the political spectrum.

Maus is a glorified comic book.  I don't particularly have any objections to it but it isn't remotely in the same tier of books as Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird.  Those two are both easily top 100 all-time American novels and both have absolutely tremendous teaching value as windows into specific places and times in US history.

You could have an interesting discussion in an advanced class centering around how those books could never be written today for multiple reasons and what that says about American society... though even hosting such a discussion would take you close to forbidden territory given that people have been fired/cancelled for simply saying a word that appears in those books during a discussion of the word's odiousness.

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