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Can we talk about how Maus got banned in Tennessee?
I used to think book bans were just about protecting kids from hard stuff. But Maus is a Holocaust graphic novel that won a Pulitzer, and a school board in McMinn County pulled it for a few curse words and a naked mouse. That changed my mind because it's clearly about controlling what ideas kids can see, not protecting them. Has anyone else had a book they thought was safe turn out to be banned somewhere?
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riverg752mo agoMost Upvoted
Holy crap, wait. They banned it over a naked mouse? I honestly thought the nudity concerns were just people being dramatic online. But they actually looked at a Pulitzer-winning book and decided the problem was a cartoon mouse being drawn without clothes. That is such a weird line to draw. I get language concerns, but a naked mouse in a serious historical book about genocide? Feels like they were actively looking for a reason to get rid of it.
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hugo2361mo ago
Right? @riverg75 It's like they couldn't find anything actually wrong with the book so they had to get creative with the reasons. That's always how these bans go, isn't it?
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