Let a kid say “Jesus Christ!” to a teacher and see how it goes. We need to ban that as well.
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Only if the gift basket includes a chocolate mouse with boobies, so they’ll get offended. 
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This Tony Allman? Staff | McMinn County Schools
Send him a note and let him know how you feel.
Also, I think this quote is interesting: “If I was trying to indoctrinate somebody’s kids, this is how I would do it,” he added. "You put this stuff just enough on the edges, so the parents don’t catch it but the kids, they soak it in."
I wonder how old he is? I wonder if he was a teenager when this came out and just not cool enough to ‘soak it up?’
And here are the minutes, if anyone is interested: https://www.wate.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2022/01/Called_Meeting_Minutes_1-10-22.pdf
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The fact that the banned book is Maus is irrelevant (except that it made for a clicky headline - or we wouldn’t be hearing about this at all). Any book they can get some “concerned parents” indignant about is fine. It’s all about this step:
This is not an isolated incident involving a few dumb hillbillies. This is a nationwide, planned and coordinated effort, coming to your local school board soon. How many mouth breathers in your neighborhood would be totally down with “protecting the children”?
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Just a clarification that Cochran made the “indoctrination” comment. He seems to be the worst of this rotten bunch, and can be contacted through the same page you helpfully provided.
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Honestly when people say this stuff like that I assume they are outing themselves as pedos who groom and rape kids or whom at least fantasize about doing so frequently. Sadly, I’m probably right.
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I often see people here asking “what can I do to help stop the fascist wave in the U.S.?”. I’d suggest that attending one’s local school board meeting is something accessible to everyone that can get results.
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Or city council or county council meetings, too.
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Yes and vote in every single election no matter how minor or how inconvenient. Often school board and city council level elections are determined by a handful of votes.
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And if you have various skills, you can help in other ways. For example,
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Already happening here. The Qnuts have driven the actual concerned school board members out and seized control, and our kids will be far, far worse off for our inaction.
ETA: This guy is now the chairman of the Rockingham County School Board. His goal seems to be to out-stupid any possible stupid out there
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Saint Barbara is never late.
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Also, maybe this incident will remind some Jews who support the “anti-CRT” nonsense pushed by white supremacists that, sooner or later,:
Jews.are.always.in.the.fascist.gunsights. Always.
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As with slavery, where the “dissenting” narrative is that slavery’s evils were overstated, many masters were kind, most White people were innocent, and in any event none of it has anything to do with the present day, the Holocaust too has alternative perspectives, where unflinching presentation of the Holocaust’s horrors now must be “balanced” with narratives emphasizing “good Germans”, the “innocent Wehrmacht”, legitimate German grievances, and Jewish aggression and exploitation (both before and after the event). We would hate for any White people to feel “demonized”, after all.
This was as far as I could get. You know what, though. This was anticipated by Holocaust survivors, and even Eisenhower in the very moment of uncovering the camps, that as the first hand witnesses died off, and the memory was allowed to fade, an increasing number of folks would deny that it happened or that it was really as bad as it was because “people just wouldn’t do that!” Hence the extensive photographic record of the camps, the existence of Yad Vashem, the intensity with which so many survivors would reach out to young people to share their experiences. And yet here we are. The last few eyewitnesses are passing, and the fascists can’t wait to erase, or at least modify, the memory. So they can set the same machine in motion again.
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What’s most disturbing, as the article points out, is that some Jewish leaders – even rabbis – are collaborating in this effort. They cover themselves by saying that denial of the slave trade, like denial of the Holocaust, is unacceptable. But then they agree with the anti-CRT nuts that the former horror of history should be looked at and taught about in a “balanced” way, totally blind to the fact that it also opens the door to giving the latter the same treatment by the very same sado-populists.
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One of the things I found particularly disturbing is the number of people in the Bible who try to buy off mobs by offering them their daughters to rape.
I can think of two off the top of my head and that’s at least two too many.
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I’m sorry if I gave that impression.
Let me try again. I think that the fact that it isn’t predominantly a “religious” issue in the UK shows that the problem is a generalised bigotry that is unrelated to religion, but that this is difficult to recognise if the main cultural manifestation of it is through religion. Which means that tackling it is not necessarily a case of seeing it as a “religious” problem. That’s why I contend that seeing it as a different thing matters - it’s no good solving the wrong problem.
That’s not to say that the ‘bigotry in religion’ problem isn’t a real thing, because it so obviously is, given that the central tenet of most - but not, I stress, all - religions is “we’re the only real one”!
(And, having admitted earlier that I am a Christian, I would also like to note that you’re all damned anyway. {this is a joke})
Maus is currently sold out
I’d tried to buy it through Powell’s, they took the order and then canceled it because they ran out of stock. I then went to bookshop.org and my order went through, only to show up today as backordered. That’s a good sign.
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