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Texas school district agrees to remove ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus’ and 670 other books after right-wing group’s complaint

forward.com Texas school district agrees to remove ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus’ and 670 other books after right-wing group’s complaint

The district in the Rio Grande Valley immediately agreed with activists who said the books were “filthy and evil.”

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.

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They already deal with the fact that someone can just go in and shoot them the middle the middle of class. Those books are nothing compared to that
- Two different discussions.
  
  Not really. Kids have active shooter drills, but you get your panties in a bunch because they might read Anne Frank?
  You don't really care about kids, you are just an hypocrite.
  
  Prove they are trying to remove Anne Frank from the libraries, it might be true, but I think that sounds like propaganda.
  And yes they are two different things. The big problem here is that people like you dont realize how to stop school shootings, and even if you did, you are unwilling to take the actual steps to do so.
  
  Prove they are trying to remove Anne Frank from libraries.
  Do you even read the titles before you come here saying dumb shit?
  It might be true, but I think that sounds like propaganda.
  Yeah obviously you have problems distinguishing truth from propaganda, we're all aware.
  
  Maybe you should read beyond the titles... A quick google tells me they are not removing anne frank, they are removing a book with anne frank in it because "it contained a 'graphic scene' in which Anne Frank asks a friend to expose themselves to each other." If accurate, why do you want books about minors exposing themselves to one another to be available to minors?
  
  On the odd chance you aren't completely trolling. Anne Frank was a girl going through puberty. She had a crush on her friend and like any normal young person had to deal with scary, unknown, but very normal human feelings and desires of intimacy and love. It's her own fucking diary, she didn't self censor herself for prudes in 2024. She had a war and death hanging over her head at any moment.
  And if you actually go look at the book, there is nothing graphic about it. To these prudes having these normal feelings and describing them in a diary is what they consider to be graphic. Here's a Dutch talkshow host absolutely clowning on these people just by showing the passage the controversy is actually about (with English subtitles)
  
  "Anne Frank's Diary, too sexual? That sounds like 'Tucker Carlson, too athletic'" I lol'd.
  
  You can not agree with it, but do you understand how they are objecting to sexual material in the book not that it has to due with history?
  
  There is no such sexual material in the book. An innocent teenage girl asked a raunchy question to a friend she had a crush on because that's the kind of behavior teens display while they grow up and develop themselves. And she got shut down. Nothing graphical was ever shown. It's showing only what was written by that same normal girl disconnected and hidden from the world as they hide from murderous tyrannical nazi's. Raw and unfiltered thoughts and feelings of a normal developing teen, as the girl wrote it for herself, not us. As the Anne Frank Foundation said in the video "A book written by a 12 year old can be read by 12 year olds."
  
  Great, we can agree to disagree, and I support both sides of the issue with having their voices heard. Why not remove that book when a half to a third of parents dont think it should be in public school?
  
  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
  No it seems to be the Diary of Anne Frank and 600+ other books.
  why do you want books about minors exposing themselves to one another to be available to minors?
  Have you read the book because that definitely "sounds like propaganda" and we've already established you have problems discerning the difference between that and reality.
  But hey, why do YOU mindlessly parrot talking points put out by far right Latino zionists like Luis Cabrera? Jk we all know the answer, dumb little tankie parroting a fucking evangelical, fuck off.
  https://www.au.org/the-latest/articles/texas-pastor-book-bans24
  
  No, the Diary of Anne Frank is not the same as Anne Franks Diary. I have read the one that they dont object to, it was a good book.
  Why do YOU mindlessly parrot talking points put out by far left?
  
  Literally the article.
  
  Literally misleading.
  
  The article states first that a Texas district banned Anne Frank's diary. Don't play dumb.
  Every fucking other countries don't have mass shootings pretty much everyday. Only in the US. In Australia, when they banned gun ownership after a mass shooting in 1996, the shootings dropped drastically.
  The school shootings are a multi-faceted problem which requires many changes, one of which is the gun culture.
  There is a toddler every two weeks that shoot someone in the USA, how are guns not the problem?
  You know where this doesn't happen? Everywhere else in the world.
  Ban guns for pretty much anything that is not hunting. Fund social services to provide quality mental health treatments to anyone that needs it. That should get you started in the right direction.
  
  Yes exactly, they want to band "Anne Franks diary", which is a distinct book that is not "The Diary of Anne Frank". Do you understand how they used propaganda and it works?
  
  I'm not sure why you keep referring to that dumb argument. There is two distinct book, I know that, but the second book is called the secret annex and is rewritten and more tame.
  Otherwise, diary of a young girl is referred to as Anne Frank's diary and all the other similar name. So shut the fuck up with your propaganda.
  Neither book should be banned and for a right winger, you seem to be more about big government than personal responsibility that your ilk like to spout.
  There is nothing offensive in the book and parents can decide for their child without being a bunch of christo-fascists cunts trying to ban anything they don't like.
  Walk the talk for once in your life and stop being an hypocrite. If you don't mind toddlers shooting people and the mass shootings but you get your feelings hurt by a young girl describing what she is going through at puberty, there is no mental gymnastics that can justify that.
  So go live in the wood with all your troglodytes so that you can live your christo-fascist life like you want. You can bring your bible with you, we don't need it.
  
  What year do you think the rewrite of the anne frank book was took place?
  
  It doesn't matter. You are trying to steer the conversation away from the subject.
  
  The point is that you were wrong again, and still dont know what is going on. The book that they want banned was written in like 2018, its a graphic novel, not the one we all read as kids. You need to actually do some research instead of being aggressively ignorant.
  
  I don't know how you can eat your cereals without choking with that mental prowess.
  What do you think the book is adapting? The original Anne Frank's diary. This is the same fucking story but with pictures. This is not the gotcha you think it is.
  I won't respond anymore because you are clearly just being a dumbass to make your argument look credible.

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