‘Orwellian’ doesn’t begin to describe it…
“Orwellian” was one of the choice words Art Spiegelman had to describe a Tennessee school board’s unanimous decision to ban his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus. “I’m kind of baffled by this,” Spiegelman told CNBC, and “It’s leaving me with my jaw open, like, ‘What?’”
He’s not the only one. The banning went viral on Wednesday for damn good reason. McMinn County school board members repeatedly cited specific “vulgar and inappropriate” words—like “bitch,” which I’m so sure no Tennessee eighth grader ever heard—in the book, which is used as the centerpiece of a Holocaust module for eighth graders in their district. But their own wordsmade clear that their discomfort sprang in significant part from the teaching of difficult subject matter.
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/01/tennessee-school-board-bans-maus-art