John Deering for January 31, 2022

They accuse the Dems of cancel culture while they whitewash and erase the things that make them uncomfortable.

Very accurate

I read Maus back in the 1980’s, and I did feel that it was an unfair depiction of cats.

Very apropos Deering. :)

Remember the old painting of dogs sitting around a table playing poker? Here’s a drawing of sly cats lounging around a table playing politics.

Now they will go back and erase all evidence that the book ever existed, and that they ever discussed it.

It was NOT “banned”. The book was removed from a required reading list for 8th-graders.

‘Maus’ is an Amazon bestseller after Tennessee school ban – author Art Spiegelman compares board to Putin – (cnbc.com)

The same state is giving public money to an adoption agency that’s refusing to serve Jews.

Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.

That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well. — Heinrich Heine (1797-1856). Almansor 1821.

Do the cats have Sharpies so they can change and react things they don’t like and either cannot or simply refuse to understand?

The same cats want to also ban George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy, written about his childhood days in an enternment camp.

They might have been happy if there was a plucky little mouse that one-upped the Nazis. But that didn’t happen. Even though there were resistance groups who fought literally impossible odds the Axis powers crushed whole civilizations. That’s happened before in history. Not teaching it, not teaching the horror and misery it caused is not just saying it didn’t happen, it’s saying it could happen again but that if it does, we’ll then it’s OK as long as it doesn’t happen to reThuglicans and “conservatives” (they are not true Republicans or true Conservatives), and they’ll have no problem with it happening to others.

Meanwhile, the supremacists, rumpists, and nazi Qs are rushing the gun shops whenever the alarm is sounded with their rallying cry, “they’re gonna take our guns away”…

We can’t erase truths just because they are uncomfortable. Teaching them is the only way to prevent evils from being perpetuated again.

This is the best cartoon I’ve seen in a long time.

People hope that if they scream loudly enough about “values” then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming?

Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.

Marshall Mcluhan

I purchased both of the ‘Maus’ books.

All that is necessary for evil to triumph quotes.

https://tartarus.org/martin/essays/burkequote2.html#:~:text=All%20that%20is%20needed%20for%20the%20forces%20of,happen%20is%20for%20%E2%80%98good%E2%80%99%20people%20to%20do%20nothing.

Great image of scaredy-cats.

Ten cats agreeing on anything? Unnatural.

It would be really great if politicians focused their attention on protecting children from guns instead of trying to protect them from books

Great book. Very worthy of the Pulitzer.

Is it possible that at least one member of that school board thought that “graphic novel” meant that there were strong words of language and (shudder) nudity? Far from unlikely. . . .

And even if in jest there are those who reduce this to it making cats look bad. Deflection and distraction and if ever there was a better example of that kind of Nazi propaganda so many decades later, that’s it.

I like the cat coughing up a furball

Read Maus years ago. It was eye opening and it is criminal that they took it out of the school curriculum. I don’t think children are as naive as adults think they are. They are exposed to so much more at much younger ages than I was.

Republicans don’t want people seeing their plans for the USA.

You draw as if you are cat-owned. Their nature is perfectly captured.

Yep. Minnie andZiggy, both over20 yrs. old are myfaithful studiocompadres.

It can be a challenge. Some days I have to shine the laser pointer AND chase it for them.; )