Bowing to pressure from conservatives, the superintendent of a Texas school district agreed earlier this month to remove 676 books from its libraries, including seminal texts on the Holocaust and antisemitism, according to a report by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
That superintendent, Carol Perez, is now facing her own removal by a board of trustees that recently voted to initiate a separation process on the grounds that her 10-year contract is illegal, clearly violating a Texas law that limits such contracts to five years.
Though the censorship has not been cited as a cause for removal, the decision by the trustees came just weeks after she provoked backlash by immediately surrendering to a demand from right-wing activists to purge “very sexually explicit” and "filthy and
People have successfully had Maus removed from school libraries? WTF?
I still have my copy from years ago sitting on my bookshelf. I specifically kept it for my kids. Soon they’ll be old enough to understand it, and we’ll have a good conversation about history while they read it.
A third of America has lost its mind. They’re also more concentrated in southern states and I don’t know how we bring them back.