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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How can you tell they're Nazis? WHEN THEY BAN BOOKS ABOUT NAZIS!

Some school board in Tennessee - McMinn County (home of Athens TN, which one of my white ancestors founded 200 years ago, before he got the hell out) has banned one of the greatest graphic novels and best books about the Holocaust - [u]Maus[/u]. The vote was 10-0. Not one of those f'in hillbillies got it.

They banned Maus! I can't believe it.[/quote]

And it was Holocaust Remembrance Day. [/quote]

I can tell everyone gets their news from twitter rather than actual facts on the ground. People should read up on the Maus in McMinn County "banning." It's much more different than you might expect. I don't agree with the board as I read Maus when I was in middle school but at the same time the board is not what people are accusing them of.

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Since you think book banning is acceptable (it’s fascism), what was the argument against Maus that you found compelling? Why was it worthy of banning? On Holocaust Remembrance Day, of all days.[/quote]

This is such a weak argument.  Schools decide not to include/teach all manner of things because they have judged them to be obscene, inaccurate, etc.

Also, banning books is not "fascism," groups all over the political spectrum have banned books and/or argued against the inclusion of certain books on various grounds.

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Answer the question I posed: what was the argument against Maus that you found so compelling in favor of its banning. [/quote]

I actually don't agree with its "banning," but it doesn't particularly concern me either.  This is just another manufactured controversy for people to rant on twitter about.

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In light of the GOP’s march to fascism, it should concern you. [/quote]

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