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Great post, Jeet. Why don’t progressives launch a campaign in TN that has people going on TV talking about cancel culture? We should Steal the term from the right the way Trump stole “fake news” from the left

In 2016.

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There is nothing to be gained stealing terms from the right, such as "cancel culture" or "welfare queen." They don't care about the meaning of words, except insofar as they can use them as weapons against the left.

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The book is not banned or censored. It's still freely available in the school library for any student who wants to read it.

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C'mon man.

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I feel like something's missing in the commentary on this. Jane Coaston, among others, is under the impression that the nudity the board members were referring to is the scenes of the concentration camp, but the minutes clearly mention a naked woman in a bath. It seems that the scene they're referring to is actually the one of Spiegelman's mother in a bath after killing herself.

This doesn't make it better, in any way, but I think it's important to be clear on what's being discussed.

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She's naked in the bath but seen from the back (see here: https://jperrryy.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/prisoner.jpg). I mean technically its a naked woman but, c'mon man.

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That image doesn't show what I was referring to. It's on the next facing page, it shows a top view of her in the bath. Like I said, it doesn't make the discussion better or any less ignorant, but I think it's important that we're clear on what they're discussing

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Okay, I added a postscript showing the two panels from Prisoner of the Hell Planet.

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Thank you, I appreciate you doing that.

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Excellent, thanks, Jeet. It's of course tragically hilarious that the hyterics around "critical race theory" and "wokeness" promulgated by people like Bari Weiss end up inevitably resulting in Shoah education getting banned. On a side note, I'm assuming your school friend David Berman was not the Silver Jew?

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No, another David Berman. Currently working for the Globe and Mail.

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