Tennessee School Board Pulls Holocaust Graphic Novel ‘Maus’ Over Offensive Themes, Language

A Tennessee school board voted to remove “Maus,” a graphic novel about the Holocaust, from its eighth-grade curriculum because of concerns over themes and language it deemed offensive, according to“Maus,” Art Spiegelman’s 300-page graphic

novel in which Nazis are depicted as cats and Jews as mice, received a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Published in two volumes in 1986 and 1991, it recounts the experiences of Mr. Spiegelman’s parents in Nazi-occupied Poland and later at Auschwitz.

What's offensive language, violence and sex? Those things don't exist in any society. Never have. Kids don't want to learn about all that shit. Not if it's only fiction. Never happens?😎

What I recall of reading Maus as a kid was how it dealt with the aftermath for survivors, the shadows cast over every aspect of normal life, and how very real and present that made it. I assume that’s what scares these people, that kids will understand that it’s a current event.

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Censoring a work that was inspired by the writer's father's experience during the Holocaust seems strange, however, it's not a children's book to begin with.

We all know where the state of Tennessee lies in education standards, pretty low. If they want to produce a generation of misinformed youth, unaware of history, societal and geopolitical issues, more’s the pity. How will they face existential threats facing humanity. Not well.

Yes, let’s have a fun book about the holocaust

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