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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    This isn’t the USA. It’s one school district in one state. I know you aren’t bright enough to separate the two, but it would be like saying because the far right has made inroads in French election, then all of Europe is in the toilet.

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      If you read the article you’ll find that this is a nation wide movement, they are all copying ban lists from Booklook, a website that used to be a Mom’s for Liberty site. Which is why these clowns keep blindly removing books that make them look like anti-semetic racist idiots. They are those things, but one would guess they’d be a little subtle, also most school districts don’t allow blanket book banning, you have to find the book in their libraries and have a formal meeting about removing it. A lot of these books aren’t even in school libraries.

      But my point is. It’s not one school district in one state it’s happening all over.

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        There are people all over the globe who want to ban books, I’m sure there is plenty of trying. The fact that they haven’t been successful across the country, but won in this one podunk district in a very conservative state, kind of reflects well on the US as a whole, no?

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          It’s not just one place. I feel like you already understand this but you just need to argue a point for dumb reasons. It’s not one place, it’s a clear, obvious, nation wide effort with central organization. Why would you think that isn’t significant OTHER than arguing a point for no reason beyond your ego?

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      Conservatives continue winning elections. Trump, of all people, actually became president. He has a non zero chance of being voted in again. Supreme Court is far right conservative. House of reps is republican controlled. Many Democrat elected officials are arguably, conservative.

      This is the USA. This is who the conservatives are, and they win often.

      Until the people show us by continually electing democrats to take the senate, house, and exec branch over and over and over again (not gonna happen), this type of shit is VERY USA.

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        You propose legitimate criticisms of the us as a whole. I was responding to the claim that this one school district being dumb is what makes the whole us dumb. It’s terrible logic, and I think you understand that, which is why you didn’t attempt to defend their argument, but pulled in tons of other points to justify their conclusion.

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        Texas is, believe it or not, the USA. Since 1845 even.

        No, Texas is part of the USA. It is not the USA. You even responded to the part about how I discussed parts of Europe…and you still fucked this up. Amazing.

        But no, the right wing is no big deal.

        Who said it wasn’t a big deal? I’m all for calling this out, but using this one school district doing something dumb to claim the entirety of the USA is garbage is…well, completely fucking moronic.

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          It’s not one school district is a nationwide effort, you’re minimizing it either through ignorance or malice.

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            I’m sure there is some effort in every corner of the globe to have some books banned. You’re minimizing it either through ignorance or malice.

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              Next time just say ‘‘No U’’, all this is doing is convincing me you don’t know what these words mean.

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        Sorry, meant to say “the EU” which is a political entity.