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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16956532

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.

  • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl
    44·
    3 days ago

    This is really hard to believe. I don’t doubt that it happened. I just don’t get the thought process behind that action.

    • paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works
      36·
      3 days ago

      Typically, a school district would require book challengers to go through a formal challenge process in which each individual book would be assessed for merit. Instead, five minutes after receiving the demands, Perez agreed to them.

      It’s easy if you don’t give a shit.

    • motor_spirit@lemmy.world
      22·
      3 days ago

      Republicans are usually some combo of ignorant fucking morons, straight up evil, financially motivated, or fascist. Get these people together and it’s basically a poker table of grifters conspiring for whatever their awful agenda may be. Add the leveraging of children’s education, fear, ignorance on the books themselves… you’ve got it.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      3 days ago

      I just don’t get the thought process behind that action.

      1 - I am a perfect being who can do no wrong.

      2 - Someone says I do something bad, or that something I do isn’t perfect

      3 - since I am perfect, they must be lying.

      4 - there is no reason to lie other than pure evil.

      5 - therefore everyone and anything that disagrees with me is the devil and must be destroyed.