The GOP is still morally corrupt, even if Discourse breaks

[Thrag]

Suspiciously specific indeed.

[John_Reynolds]

I just read I Timothy 2:12 out loud to my wife and told her I kind of like it.

[Alstein]

Looks like the NC Nazi doesn’t want to pay taxes.

[Papageno]

@Gordon_Cameron

@Timex

but I’d think that they could read other books along side this Pulitzer prize winning classic.

Well, there are a lot of books, and only so much time in English class. The reason any canon is formed is in large part because there is limited time available to read everything.

This is why I’m glad that in my high school English class in 1979 or so, we read Invisible Man and not To Kill a Mockingbird, based on the experiences of a black author (albeit at a suburban private Jesuit HS with literally one black student in our Senior class). We also read Huckleberry Finn a couple of years earlier because c’mon, Twain tells a hell of a yarn. And of course we also read forgettable elitist BS like A Separate Peace which I hope they’re not making kids read anymore.

[Gordon_Cameron]

I read Mockingbird in 9th grade, Native Son and Huck Finn in 10th. Different schools though. Also a Jesuit school in 10th.

[ShivaX]

I mean, Jesuits are generally awesome.

[Telefrog]

Back to Maus. Here is the statement from the McMinn County Board of Education:

[Scuzz]

Damn, that sounds morally corrupt all right.

[scottagibson]

Gonna be a bit tricky to teach anyone about the atrocities of the Holocaust, which were shameful beyond description, while being careful not to mention any violence.

[RichVR]

Cartoon titties are much worse than gassing people and burning them in ovens. I totally respect their point.

[John_Reynolds]

What a pack of f’n snowflakes, amirite?

[Timex]

@RichVR

Cartoon titties are much worse than gassing people and burning them in ovens. I totally respect their point.

Pretty sure there weren’t actually any cartoon titties in Maus.

I think the nudity was just like, jews lined up naked going into the concentration camps. Pretty sure they didn’t actually expose any real nudity, but maybe I just didn’t notice.

[Telefrog]

There is a panel or two of a topless woman in the side-story that’s reprinted in Maus.

But I believe the copy the school district was using didn’t have that story.

[inactive_user]

Thank goodness none of these middle schoolers will see any wangs or titties until their wedding night now.

[Matt_W]

OTOH, it’s not weird for a middle school library to curate their content so as to satisfy parents who want to continue to be the arbiters of the content their 11 year olds consume. As the parent of an 11 year old, I sympathize. I might make different choices than these parents, but I do make some effort to curate the content he’s exposed to. It’s not like Maus is the only source for information or narratives about the Holocaust. Nor, if the middle schoolers choose, is it difficult to find at any public library. This is much ado about nothing.

[easytarget]

@Matt_W

Nor, if the middle schoolers choose, is it difficult to find at any public library.

I’m just encouraged to learn they still go to libraries.

[Houngan]

In all ways, we must protect our outrage against the violent assault of common sense and reasonable norms.

[ShivaX]

The Mister

[Freezer-TPF]

It looks like Maus is not available in a digital edition? That’s a shame. Looks like it’s backordered for a few months. I had never heard of it before now, as far as I can remember.

[Scuzz]

So none of them have internet?