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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    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.