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UNLOCKED! Bonus Ep16 Maus (from March 2022)

I Don't Speak German

IDSG

Politics, News, Currentaffairs, Society & Culture

3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

We're still working on getting back up and running so in the meantime, here's an old bonus episode. This is our March 2022 discussion of Art Spiegelman's Maus, to go with our public episode from February 2022 about the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee removing the classic graphic novel about the Holocaust from the curriculum. Sadly, this is relevant again because yet another school board - this time in Nixa, Missouri - has targeted the book. It's not alone either. Nor is Maus the only classic Holocaust text being targeted. Ann Frank's diary is in the crosshairs of Mom's For Liberty.

Maus

Our episode about Maus and the McMinn County School Board

Auschwitz in Contemporary Popular Literature by Dr Wanda Witek-Malicka

Of Mice and Memory by Joshua Brown

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Links:

https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/103-maus-vs-mcminn-county-school-board

https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/tennessee-school-book-ban-robbing-students-history-rcna87531

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/185844

https://www.jta.org/2023/06/14/united-states/a-missouri-school-district-could-ban-maus-citing-concerns-about-whether-it-is-explicit-sexual-material

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-746349

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/14/art-spiegelman-maus-book-bans/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/27/maus-removal-old-debate/

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2023/04/07/anne-frank-book-pulled-from-florida-library/11622644002/

https://www.businessinsider.com/moms-for-liberty-get-florida-school-to-ban-anne-franks-diary-adaption-2023-4?r=US&IR=T

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is I Don't Speak German.

0:14.9

I'm Jack Graham, he, him, and in this podcast I talk to my friend Daniel Harper, also he, him,

0:21.0

who spent years tracking the far right in their safe spaces. In this show we talk about them

0:27.2

and about the wider reactionary forces feeding them and feeding off them. Be warned, this is difficult

0:33.2

subject matter, content warnings always apply.

0:36.8

All right. Right, so this is it. This is the episode. This is the episode I'm doing it now.

1:03.7

Yeah. And it's a bonus episode. I think it's 16. I think it's 16. Oh, wow. Yeah. And I just thought

1:15.1

of an awful joke that I'm not going to say. And you can tell me when we're not recording. That's

1:21.2

from the player. Yes. It definitely didn't involve Prince Andrew. And yeah, this one's about

1:27.9

mouse or mouse or however you want to say it. It should be mouse, really, because it's the German

1:35.3

work by Art Spiegelman, who's, it's a graphic novel. We got complaints about previous bonus episodes,

1:44.5

you see, where we didn't explain properly what we were talking about. And so I'm at pain this

1:49.3

time to explain a complaint from a particular person whose name may or may not be David Gerard

1:58.2

for into the podcast. No, I wouldn't call him out of September. He's a dear friend. So it's fine.

2:05.3

We only call out our dear friends on this podcast for complaints about the structure and

2:10.1

anything else. You know, it's like, oh, yeah, David Gerard had something negative to say about us.

2:14.8

Yes, right to brilliant books about cryptocurrency. Be a very famous person doing, you know, yeah,

2:22.7

sure, sure, sure. Also, you know, yeah, he said something vaguely negative about the fact that we

2:28.9

didn't introduce Ellie Confidential properly. Be gone with you, David Gerard. That's, that's my opinion.

2:36.1

But, you know, well, you know, I get the feeling David Gerard's probably quite used to fielding

2:42.4

criticism. Yes, most likely so, because I sometimes end up in his, in his mentions. And I see

2:50.8

the kind of criticism he gets. And given the trust stream having Nazis on me or Cryptopros,

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