Zero days without goyishe nonsense

So today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and I have two things to point out:

1. here are still fewer of us now than there were in 1938


2. If you extrapolate demographics from the Roman Empire forward, there *should* be 150 million of us. There's around 16 million

But this post is prompted by news that the McMinn County, Tennessee school board voted unanimously to remove Maus from the curriculum.

If you've never read it, Maus is about the Shoah and about the author's relationship with his father. It's raw, it's brutal, and it's violent. So was the Shoah. The board's complaints come down to "it has nudity" (because the prisoners were stripped before being put in the camps) and "it has swear words," based on the minutes of the meeting. In the board's response, they talk about the "unnecessary use of profanity and nudity and its depiction of violence and suicide." So...they want a bloodless, deathless depiction of the Shoah>

After reading the minutes of the meeting, [the author] Mr. Spiegelman said he got the impression that the board members were asking, "Why can’t they teach a nicer Holocaust?"

The impression I get, reading parts of the minutes and the statement from the board, is that they don't see Jews as people. We're don't really exist to them. We're a part of history, sure, but we're not a living people with wants and desires and, yes, flaws. The victims of the Shoah serve as a great illustration of man's inhumanity to man (as long as they don't have any inconveniences like disliking their father:

"I thought the end was stupid to be honest with you. A lot of the cussing had to do with the son cussing out the father, so I don’t really know how that teaches our kids any kind of ethical stuff. It’s just the opposite, instead of treating his father with some kind of respect, he treated his father like he was the victim."
-Mike Cochran, school board member

How dare the child of someone who went through horrific trauma, who was affected by the trauma because there was no way he could not be, have complicated feelings. We're not real to them. I mean:

"I love the Holocaust I have taught the Holocaust almost every year in the classroom, but this is not a book I would teach my students."
-person identified as Teacher from McMinn High School

It's all just words to them. They don't actually care.

Which is how this sort of things happens again, of course.