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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Not really. Kids have active shooter drills, but you get your panties in a bunch because they might read Anne Frank?

You don’t really care about kids, you are just an hypocrite.

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Prove they are trying to remove Anne Frank from the libraries, it might be true, but I think that sounds like propaganda.

And yes they are two different things. The big problem here is that people like you dont realize how to stop school shootings, and even if you did, you are unwilling to take the actual steps to do so.

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The article states first that a Texas district banned Anne Frank’s diary. Don’t play dumb.

Every fucking other countries don’t have mass shootings pretty much everyday. Only in the US. In Australia, when they banned gun ownership after a mass shooting in 1996, the shootings dropped drastically.

The school shootings are a multi-faceted problem which requires many changes, one of which is the gun culture.

There is a toddler every two weeks that shoot someone in the USA, how are guns not the problem?

You know where this doesn’t happen? Everywhere else in the world.

Ban guns for pretty much anything that is not hunting. Fund social services to provide quality mental health treatments to anyone that needs it. That should get you started in the right direction.

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Yes exactly, they want to band “Anne Franks diary”, which is a distinct book that is not “The Diary of Anne Frank”. Do you understand how they used propaganda and it works?

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Literally the article.

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Literally misleading.

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Prove they are trying to remove Anne Frank from libraries.

Do you even read the titles before you come here saying dumb shit?

It might be true, but I think that sounds like propaganda.

Yeah obviously you have problems distinguishing truth from propaganda, we’re all aware.

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Maybe you should read beyond the titles… A quick google tells me they are not removing anne frank, they are removing a book with anne frank in it because “it contained a ‘graphic scene’ in which Anne Frank asks a friend to expose themselves to each other.” If accurate, why do you want books about minors exposing themselves to one another to be available to minors?

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