• flossdaily@lemmy.world
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    Of course. How can you raise a new generation of Nazis if you teach them to be horrified by the actions of the last?

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      To be fair, it wasn’t because she wrote about being hunted down by Nazis for being Jewish. It’s because she wrote about growing public pubic hair.

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        I don’t think it would have been any better to write about growing private hair.

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        Oh, the poor children. I’m sure they’re traumatized after learning that - checks notes - humans have body hair. Don’t even get me started on Santa.

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        Nah that’s just their excuse. It’s 100% the nazi thing. It’s hardly the only book that they’re banning on the subject.

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      There’s also people in america who are hypocrites that would commit the same atrocities as the nazi’s if they where allowed too while the same people would denounce the nazis and even call those that they enact their bigotry against nazis

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    I know Texas is backwards and regressive, but this headline is kinda clickbait.

    A Texas middle school teacher has been fired after assigning an unapproved illustrated version of Anne Frank’s Diary to her eighth grade reading class.

    …While district officials claim the adaptation of Anne Frank’s Diary was not approved, it was included on a reading list sent to parents at the start of the school year, KFDM reports. The investigation will determine if the teacher pivoted from the original approved curriculum or if administrators were aware of the book being part of the class.

    She wasn’t fired for reading Anne Frank, but for using a graphic novelization of it.

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      I really wish we could give teachers some semblance of independence back in their classrooms. Firing her just for using an unapproved version of an approved novel is ridiculous.

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      Is that something to get fired over though? There’s still context missing here - assigning a non-approved book alone seems like something you reprimand someone over, not fire them. Was there something particularly egregious about that particular version of the book?

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        I’m not sure if you’ve ever read her diary, or the ORIGINAL diary, but the original non-edited version, she goes into detail about her sexuality and specifically about another girl. Her father basically ripped out/omitted pages out of shame.

        Since the version the school approved was the same version just graphic novellized, you can bet a Texas school did NOT approve the original version.

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        If I’m understanding it correctly, this book was on the suggested reading list they sent parents. So it was unapproved but also suggested…?

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      It’s okay, he wasn’t fired for “being black”, he was fired because his short, thick curly hair and broader nose don’t fit into our dress code! So it’s totally okay!

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      The people responding to you are missing the point you’re trying to make, which is that the title of the article is clickbait.

      Texas teacher fired for reading Diary of Anne Frank to class.

      This headline is false, if not in the exact words then certainly by the implication. Anyone reading this headline would believe that the teacher was fired for reading The Diary of Anne Frank.

      Texas teacher fired for reading Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation to class.

      This headline is true. Notice how it is different.

      Are either of these headlines good? Obviously not. Is it better to be fired for one than the other? Obviously not, and that is beside the point. Misinformation is a cancer and there doesn’t need to be an agenda behind identifying and calling it out.

      edit: and if you (reader) look at the second headline and think to yourself “why are you trying to downplay Texas’ actions by making it sound less bad?” You need to point that question inwards - why do you think the second headline sounds better? And if a more factually correct headline changes your emotional reaction to the story, don’t you think that’s an important reason to advocate for accuracy?

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      Because the kids wont punish themselves to going to the bathroom during work production hours, which school will teach them is always.

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        Exactly. How can we condition the youth to be subservient minimum wage slaves??

        Although….we’ve seen the side effects of the uneducated

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    the teacher was sent home on Wednesday after reading a passage from Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation in which Frank wrote about male and female genitalia.

    I don’t remember reading anything about male and female genitalia in Ann Frank’s diary…😕

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    Has anyone here seen this version? Does graphic novelization mean it’s graphic as in nsfw? The unedited diary does have a lot of sexual content. If it’s just a different version of the book though, that’s way overreacting.

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        She is fairly scientific in her descriptions. Doesn’t seem like a problem to me. Any health class should be covering this anyways.

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        She would have been mortified to know that this was going to be published for all the world to see in the future!

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      Does graphic novelization mean it’s graphic as in nsfw?

      As far as I understand it, no.

    • 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚐@lemmy.world
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      I would assume the accusation and headline would be much different if there was any kind of direct link to support a claim involving Jewry, CSAM, and public grooming.

      Edit: grammar

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            Then I’m further confused as to why it’s listed along-side child porn and child grooming?

            • 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚐@lemmy.world
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              The Diary of Anne Frank was written by a Jewish girl during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

              There are unabridged entries in her diary in which she wrote about going through puberty and made certain specific observations about her maturing body.

              OP made reference to these entries and wondered if they happened to be in this adaption:

              Has anyone here seen this version? Does graphic novelization mean it’s graphic as in nsfw? The unedited diary does have a lot of sexual content.

              Hence my reply.

              If these were included in the adaption, there would be accusations of CSAM (graphical depictions of an underage girl exploring her body), public grooming (teaching kids that this is acceptable), and it would be aimed pointedly at Jewry (the Jewish people).

              Edit: grammar

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        I think this user was misinterpreted (as I misinterpreted it myself, originally). They’re claiming that the outcry, should legitimate issues be present, would have a different wording.