Tennessee School Board Banned Book Now Amazon #1 Seller--

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1-29-2022

"Maus," the decades-old graphic novel about the effects of the Holocaust on a family, has become an Amazon bestseller as part of a __
backlash to the news this week that it was banned by a Tennessee school board.

The McMinn County board says it took that step on Jan. 10 because of a handful of curse words and other aspects of "Maus" that it found upsetting, including "its depiction of violence and suicide.

"The board's decision on the 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Art Spiegelman, which had been a key part of McMinn's eighth-grade curriculum, was unanimous.

"The Complete Maus" on Friday held the No. 1 spot among Amazon's bestsellers in the categories of fiction satire, and comics and graphic novels,
and the No. 7 spot overall for all books.

"Maus I," an earlier published book that is the first part of "The Complete Maus," was the No. 5 bestselling book on Amazon. The second part of the story, "Maus II" was the No. 1 bestseller in the European history category.

In addition to leading to a flood of demand for the book on Amazon, the McMinn board's ban spurred other people to make the book more accessible to readers.

One of them, Professor Scott Denham at Davidson College in North Carolina, is offering McMinn County students in the eighth grade and high school an online class on "Maus."

"I have taught Spiegelman's books many times in my courses on the Holocaust over many years," Denham says on his website.

Richard Davis, owner of the Nirvana Comics bookstore in Knoxville, Tenn., is offering loans of
"The Complete Maus" to any student.

Davis, whose store is located within 15 miles of McMinn County, also has set up a GoFundMe campaign to buy more "Maus" copies to be loaned and possibly ultimately donated to students.
That effort had raised more than $30,000 by late Friday, more than three times its original $10,000 target.

"We're getting requests from parents all over the country, even Europe, asking for copies," said Davis.

He believes the surprisingly strong response reflects the view that "That's not what we do in America:
__ 'We don't ban books.'__

"It triggered a very American response," he said.

One donor on the page wrote: "Banned books are the without fail among the most important, and 'Maus,' especially right now, is very, very important."

"We don't ban books... that agree with our narrative"

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2-1-2022

Texas parent demands school district ban Michelle Obama book over 'reverse racism'

A Texas parent is demanding that that a school district near Houston remove copies of a book about former First Lady Michelle Obama because it promotes "reverse racism."

NBC News reported this week that hundreds of books are being banned in schools in "an unprecedented effort by parents and conservative politicians in Texas to ban books dealing with race, sexuality and gender from schools."

An NBC News records request determined that at least one parent in Katy asked to ban a book about the former first lady.

"Another parent in Katy, a Houston suburb, asked
the district to remove a children’s biography of Michelle Obama, arguing that it promotes “reverse racism” against white people, according to the records obtained by NBC News," the report said.

"A parent in the Dallas suburb of Prosper wanted the school district to ban a children’s picture book about the life of Black Olympian Wilma Rudolph, because it mentions racism that Rudolph faced growing up in Tennessee in the 1940s.

In the affluent Eanes Independent School District in Austin, a parent proposed replacing four books about racism, including 'How to Be an Antiracist,' by Ibram X. Kendi, with copies of the Bible."

People need to stop pretending that only republicans can be religious "fundamentalists". Every democrat, especially those in any kind of leadership role, from Biden to Pelosi to just name one regularly invokes "faith", "belief", or whatever as being a major influence and guide in their lives.

Religiosity is as bipartisan as corruption and imperialism, probably because all three share many attitudes goals and methods.

A triumvirate of toxicity, if you will.
(axis of evil has already been used, dammit)

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Here are 50 books Texas parents want banned from school libraries.
Nearly all related to titles dealing with race, racism, sex, gender and sexuality.

__ Read- learn-enlighten yourself__

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-library-books-banned-schools-rcna12986

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