Dear Og. We are all aware, I hope, that when we start burning/banning books, we’ll end up burning/banning people? (paraphrasing Heinrich Heine). Maus is one of my absolute favorite graphic novels (we’ve got both parts First Edition, I’ve read them multiple times) . As far as I’m concerned, this is really the Dark Ages taking over. I wish you guys luck, you’re gonna need it. Heck, I’m gonna read them again just because.
I can’t find the video of it anymore, but a student at one of these school meetings reminded their school board that in every instance that books were banned, history has not judged those responsible kindly.
Which I suspect they’d know if they weren’t busy literally banning the history that would teach them that.
Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said last year that not receiving an offer to teach at Duke University upon leaving the governorship was “blacklisting” and comparable to the refusal to serve Black Americans at lunch counters in the 1960s during segregation…