Comic book store owners are offering to ship banned Holocaust novel 'Maus' to Tennessee students for free

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After a Tennessee school board banned a graphic novel about the Holocaust from local middle schools, comic book store owners from near and far have pledged to send students the book for free.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel"Maus" was banned on January 10 after a unanimous vote by the McMinn County, Tennessee, Board of Education.Politicizing the Holocaust dehumanizes us allWritten by Art Spiegelman,"Maus" tells the story of his parents in the 1940's, following the Jewish family's experience with rising anti-Semitism to their internment at the Auschwitz concentration camp. It depicts the Jewish people as mice and Nazis as cats.

In December, he tweeted out a similar offer after a Texas school district banned the novel"V for Vendetta" and the series"Y: The Last Man".Local comic shop turned lending libraryMcMinn students have also received similar offers from comic lovers a little closer to home.In Knoxville, just north of McMinn County, the Nirvana Comics shop announced it would loan copies of"Maus" to local students.

 

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By request of their parents? I doubt it.

That sounds like life to me! ✌️🏻

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If you're old enough to die in the Holocaust, you're old enough to read about the Holocaust.

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It wasn’t banned. CNN knows this but they just try to create division wherever they can.

Maybe we should start a GoFundMe for these Comic Bookstores, because you know that the local Harpies are gonna go after them next.

Yes ! This is how we stop the ignorance

This is wonderful. I really need to read the series myself.

at least banned books ultimately backfires and gets kids interested in reading

Tennessee, home of the Scopes Monkey Trial

Instead educate students on slave trade and atrocities British empire on black people what matters how America bought them with cotton like commodities . Teach students true history for enlightenment not false history be stupid and dumb

I'm gonna buy this for my nephew.

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Good!

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