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A US county removes the acclaimed graphic novel about the Holocaust ‘Maus’ from its schools for “vulgar and inappropriate”


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The conservative states of the USA are experiencing a school war over content on social division, such as racism or gender identity

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The graphic novel about the Holocaust ‘Maus’.Etienne LaurentEFE

School officials in a county in southern U.S have banned the acclaimed graphic novel mouse about him Holocaust, considering it “inappropriate” content, another episode of the current school war in conservative states of the country.

In this book, Art Spiegelman recounts memories of his surviving father of the Holocaust, in which the Jews are represented with mice and the Nazis with cats.

Winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, the first for a comic, mouse It has been translated into more than 20 languages.

However, its content is considered “vulgar and inappropriate” for 13-year-old high school students, the school board of mcminn county, in Tennessee, who voted on January 10 to remove it from the curriculum until another book is found on the Holocaust.

“This book uses foul and unpleasant language”, explained the director of the Council, Lee Parkisonaccording to the minutes of the meeting. It consists of eight vulgar words and an image of a naked woman.

The book “shows people being hanged, people killing children. Why does the education system promote these things? It’s not that wise or that healthy,” alleged one of the participants. “We are not against teaching the Holocaust,” he added. “I do not deny that it was horrible, brutal and cruel.”

Other board members defended the book. “It was a good way to portray a terrible period of history”, difficult to teach to children who “don’t even know about 9/11”, said a former history teacher.

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Spiegelman: “Una confusin total”

Interviewed by CNN on Thursday, Spiegelman said he was thrown into “total confusion” before “trying to be tolerant of these people who might not be Nazis” but “focused on some profanity.”

Thursday marks the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, thats why he Holocaust Museum in Washington has emphasized in his account Twitter that mouse has played “a vital role” for education about the Holocaust “by sharing detailed and personal information about the experiences of victims and survivors.”

The decision comes in a context of questioning school curricula in conservative states, which attack books on social division such as racism or gender identity.

another classic, Beloved, del afroestadounidense Toni Morrison, has been the subject of controversy recently. A Virginia mother claimed her high school son had nightmares after reading the book, which tells the story of a former slave who chooses to kill her daughter to save her from the atrocities of slavery.

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