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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.

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[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 234 points 4 months ago

Are conservatives activists so concerned with information related to living under Nazism because they don't want young people to be able to recognize the steps if those steps occur to young people today?

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 79 points 4 months ago

No no, that would require “reason”.

No this is all somehow related to Jeezus.

[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 75 points 4 months ago

Not it's 100% tied to the resurgence of white supremacy. These conservatives groups are backed by humongous PACs that fund groups that push their agenda. Just like with turningpointusa and groups like that. Don't mistake careful planning masked by racist zealots as idiocy.

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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 194 points 4 months ago

local pastor and outspoken Israel advocate

Anne Frank’s diary

Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust graphic memoir

Israel advocate

Anne Frank’s diary

Israel advocate

Anne Frank’s diary

You fucking disgrace

Get out of my country

For some reason this made me way more irrationally angry than just killing Palestinians. It’s killing Palestinians and running cover for the people who killed Anne Frank and Spiegelman’s brother, and doing it all at the exact same time with no sense of shame or embarrassment but, I’m sure, a smug sense of superiority like everyone else is the monster in this

This guy better really hope that there isn’t a hell

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 102 points 4 months ago

Hey man. If it looks like a Nazi, walks like a Nazi and quacks like a Nazi, it's probably a Nazi

[-] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

Idk, if it quacks it might be an undercover nazi-duck

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 23 points 4 months ago
[-] samothtiger@pawb.social 17 points 4 months ago

Nazi ducks Nazi ducks Nazi ducks

DUCK OFF!!

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[-] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 19 points 4 months ago

It's not really surprising - historically, the creation Israel state was helped massively by antisemitists, who wanted to get rid of jews in their own country and having them a place to immigrate to would be the easiest option (the phenomena is often referred to as Zionist antisemitism).

So yeah, it does make sense - they can hate the jews, but also support Israel at the same time.

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[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 months ago

But an Israel advocate would try to hide the holocaust least someone relate it to what Israel is doing to Palestine.

Maybe you’re thinking of a Jewish advocate and not an Israel advocate?

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 16 points 4 months ago

In-Israel Israel advocacy, and American Judaism, are absolutely chock full of people who are disgusted with Netanyahu’s government and his “war,” in part because of how much he is doing to destroy Israel on the world stage and get Israelis killed for more or less no purpose, as well as the unfolding horror of the apartheid state and genocide he’s enacting in their name.

Zionist advocates and Israel advocates and Jewish advocates and human rights advocates are four sometimes overlapping but distinct categories.

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[-] ImADifferentBird 17 points 4 months ago

From what I understand, a lot of Israelis are rather unkind towards Holocaust survivors. Which is fucking wild to me.

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[-] ben_dover@lemmy.ml 85 points 4 months ago

the nazis also banned books they didn't agree with

[-] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 53 points 4 months ago

Which you can learn about....in Maus. Ffs.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 79 points 4 months ago
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[-] didntbuyasquirrel@lemmy.world 70 points 4 months ago

"Jewish themes"...like in the Bible?

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago

i cannot believe how openly anti-nazi some books are! we should burn these intolerant books!

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[-] hexabs@lemmy.world 68 points 4 months ago

I simply cannot wrap my head around this. How is this defensible? What possible justification could they provide for banning Maus?? Anne's Diary?? How could you even link these to any contemporary agenda?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 37 points 4 months ago

Because they're fucking Nazis, how many ways do they need to prove it to you?

[-] hexabs@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Nah I get that they're Nazis. But the article failed to mention the official justification to ban these. I want to know what's the sugarcoated, duplicitous rationale they provided.

[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Wise person: "Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them."

Actual Nazis: Great idea. Let's burn some books.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

See, us Jews control Hollywood, so all of that is just PR messaging about our Holocaust lie. And we also control the banks, so we're the ones buying these books and bribing school librarians to put them on the shelves. Whereupon, I guess, something about the trans agenda happens? I'm a cishet Jew, so I'm only up on our side of the conspiracy.

[-] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

It's amazing that Republicans are both pro-Israel and anti-Jew at the same time.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

There's a reason for that, which I mentioned in a post elsewhere in the thread:

“Outspoken Israel advocates” who are evangelical Christians don’t love Jews. Quite the opposite. They need Israel to exist so all Jews in the world can be forcibly deported to it, and then made to rebuild the Great Temple, so Jesus can come back and throw them all into Hell.

And a red cow comes into the picture as well.

None of that is sarcasm. That is really what they think.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

They can link them to their own goals. They want to avoid that people might notice the signs and recognize them as a warning. Let me guess, "The Wave" has been banned there, too?

[-] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 65 points 4 months ago

The conservative groups are led by Pastor Luis Cabrera, who is active in Latino conservative circles in the state and whose Instagram profile picture is currently an upraised fist outlined with the Israeli flag. Originally from Guatemala, Cabrera is a member of several right-wing Christian activist organizations and has also posted numerous pieces of pro-Israel social media content.

The thing about Uncle Tom's are they come in all shapes, races, ethnicities, and backgrounds. Ironically the things they all hate and fight against

[-] IHeartBadCode@kbin.run 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Another thing is that Uncle Tom was eventually flogged to death by the people whose admiration he so desperately sought to win.

Fundamentalist only see things in measures of what helps them obtain what they want. Once the utility of someone is over, they have zero compunction with turning on the person that helped them and riving them to nothingness as demonstration.

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[-] UpperBroccoli 49 points 4 months ago

'Never again' is now.

[-] exanime@lemmy.world 49 points 4 months ago

well the USA was circling the drain after Trump's first win... they are now at the toilet gargling stage

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[-] Juigi@lemm.ee 46 points 4 months ago

Texas full of whiny bitches seems like

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[-] 108@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago

Didn't need to read past the word "Texas" and I know not only would the next words be really stupid but also I would believe it 100%

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 40 points 4 months ago

As a Jew, I think I won't be going to Texas any time soon.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

I'd prefer not to given this situation, and I hope you are and stay safe.

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago

I gotta work on getting my kids passports. If the traitor fucktard wins, i could see us all forced onto cattle cars.

[-] massacre@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

If you are a cis-het white who at least publicly proclaims belief in Jesus, you should be fine. For eveyone else, they'll start with those who have the least power and keep coming for the next out-group on the ladder.... and they'll use anyone they can convince along the ladder to kick off those on a lower rung.

Let's see, illegal immigrants, homeless, drug addicts, trans, gay, muslim, atheist, brown, jewish - appologies if sure if I left anyone out. You may disagree with the order, but I might not be far off.

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

Add liberals, scientists, teachers to the end of the list.

[-] NotAnonymousAtAll@feddit.org 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

An "outspoken Israel advocate" wants to get rid of books about the Holocaust and antisemitism in general? I am very confused. Usually right wing extremist demands make some kind of sense from within their twisted world view, but how does that fit together at all, in any world view?

[-] buttfarts@lemy.lol 21 points 4 months ago

Hard right folks don't like teaching the history of the consequences of hard right political movements. Those histories never end with a country full of happy economically secure people just living their lives because the only thing fascists can do is destroy everything.

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[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 31 points 4 months ago

My partner is an educator in Texas and I showed this to them. So thanks for posting, OP, getting the word out and such.

[-] mista_wick@lemm.ee 29 points 4 months ago

I'm still proud of the copy of "Maus" that I donated to the library of my shitty little Texas town before I moved out of that hell-hole a few years back. I still check the online catalog from time to time to make sure it's still in circulation.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

As someone else who got out of a shitty little Texas town, I salute you.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 16 points 4 months ago

i did nazi that coming

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Land of the free and freedom of speech are such hollow terms when Americans say them.
Fascism has a very strong foothold in half of USA.

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