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.
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.