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This is astounding to me, i have to say. i read this book as a child. i was encouraged to read it by both my parents, my siblings as well, who were significantly older than me, and you learn so much about what took place during the holocaust through this, these graphic novels, there s another one called persepolis about the iran-iraq war and i know you have been doing reporting on this specifically coming out of this town. i want to read some of your reporting here. one board member, jonathan pierce, describing himself as probably the biggest sinner and crudest person in this room, but said the book didn t meet his standard, which he described as, can i lay that in front of a child. talk more about this, tim. sure. so, thanks for having me, first of all. the vote was on january 10th at the mcminn county school board that s between chattanooga and knoxville, and it was a
Speaking out after a school board in tennessee unanimously voted to ban his landmark graphic novel about polish jews surviving the holocaust. the pulitzer prize winning novel was removed from an eighth grade language arts curriculum after concerns about profanity and nudity. spiegelman, who only learned about the removal a day before international holocaust remembrance day, slammed the move as orwellian. here s some of his conversation with my colleague, joy reid, earlier this week. i m concerned about the information content that s being withheld. you need to know stuff. that s what you re in school for. there s a good reason that you need to know stuff. it s a survival thing, you know? and i don t know that it s possible, when parents, as jerry just said, interfere with the learning process. joining me now, with his reporting on this, is nbc s tim stello. tim, thanks for joining us on this.