Since there is now a concentration camp on US soil, I felt that it was time for me to read Maus by Art Spiegelman. #booksky #bannedbooks #reading #socialjustice #literature #books
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For the people who said I was being dramatic with my wording: www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/a...
jul 8, 2025, 7:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Wow lots of ppl coming to hang out on my little book post. Cool! A few notes: (1) Yes, I know I said "now" which is misleading about the existence of other US camps throughout history. Poor wording. Thanks to everyone giving me book recs on the Japanese Internet Camps and other such instances.
jul 7, 2025, 1:38 pm • 20 0 • view
*internment 🤦🏻
jul 7, 2025, 3:13 pm • 2 0 • view
(2) Some folks seem to want to fight about the definition of "concentration camp." I'll offer this: if you're trying to tell me I'm wrong on a technicality, that feels like a bad faith argument. Also, I encourage you to really interrogate the purpose of the camp.
jul 7, 2025, 1:38 pm • 23 3 • view
“A concentration camp is a facility where large numbers of people, such as political prisoners or members of ethnic or religious minorities, are detained under armed guard, often without legal due process and in harsh conditions.” If the shoe fits……..
jul 7, 2025, 7:29 pm • 2 1 • view
(3) Some of y'all (luckily not most!) seem to want to find reasons to be mad, and that can't be good for you. Seems exhausting. But I know I can't convince you to not argue with strangers on the internet. 🤷🏻
jul 7, 2025, 1:38 pm • 17 1 • view
Also there was one random person who is mad that my book is in French? Sorry??
jul 7, 2025, 1:39 pm • 16 0 • view
I thought seeing it in French was interesting so thank u! Just offering support. I actually just came here to say the version I had as a kid came with a cd rom making it a hyperlinked text—you could click on various sections to hear the tapes he made of his father speaking or read relevant articles.
jul 7, 2025, 1:46 pm • 2 0 • view
It made it even more heartbreaking and real in many ways. I wonder how future generations will look back at this moment, with the thousands of videos of elderly people, pregnant women and children already being aggressively grabbed or beaten when they’re kidnapped.
jul 7, 2025, 1:49 pm • 2 1 • view
Anyone pretending it’s not real is doing harm—you’ve got to stop and start fighting back or helping/supporting people who are. The time for waiting to see what’s going to happen is over.
jul 7, 2025, 1:49 pm • 4 1 • view
You should be. Fix it.
jul 7, 2025, 1:47 pm • 2 0 • view
jul 7, 2025, 1:51 pm • 14 0 • view
You are the best part of today. Thank you! Can’t wait for your next book recommendation.
jul 7, 2025, 5:14 pm • 2 0 • view
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jul 7, 2025, 2:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Keep in mind who tried to take over Europe before Germany claimed that hobby
jul 8, 2025, 12:53 am • 0 0 • view
Disagreeing with the use of names like Dachau and Auschwitz is not a "technicality". It's a recognition of the fact that those imprisoned in those camps were starved to death, worked to death, beaten to death and murdered. /1
jul 7, 2025, 1:55 pm • 0 0 • view
If you're going to suggest that the same thing is happening in Florida, you're going to need some evidence. But so far, what I see is a very substandard prison that probably violates every regulation and standard for a US prison. It's wrong in every way - but will everyone there be killed? Really?
jul 7, 2025, 1:57 pm • 0 0 • view
I suspect that if you told a family member of an Auschwitz victim that the "Alligator Camp" is the same thing, they'd be tempted to smack you in the head.
jul 7, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
If you find yourself arguing something is not "technically" a concentration camp, focus first on finding the script because you definitely lost it.
jul 7, 2025, 9:36 pm • 0 0 • view
I think concentration camp is a place where you concentrate people. What you do to them there …. In Germany parts of Poland it was industrial slaughter
jul 7, 2025, 2:57 pm • 2 0 • view
I wrote recently a note, my 1940 family story, to help people understand better "how to recognize a concentration camp". You are free to use it in any way. The (except the last paragraph due to the 2000 char limit) text version is in the "Alt" description.
jul 7, 2025, 4:44 pm • 3 1 • view
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jul 7, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I was struck by a conversation btwn 2 characters that felt relatable today: "You've heard what they say about Auschwitz. Horrible, incredible things." "That can't be true!" Words that I even said a few days ago. Words that many more people continue to say about things going on here & overseas.
jul 7, 2025, 12:02 am • 103 11 • view
Yeah, what's it gonna take for anybody to do anything besides post on social media?Somebody's baby getting thrown in the air and shot?
jul 7, 2025, 2:24 pm • 5 0 • view
Getting involved in my community has made me feel a lot more hopeful and determined because while a lot of things feel outside of our control, there are and always have been a ton of people on the ground working to make things better.
jul 7, 2025, 3:42 pm • 10 1 • view
I recommend reading Be A Revolution by Ijeoma Oluo if you want to see examples and ideas for how to make real change. She literally has bullet points at the end of each chapter for what you can do. share.google/ZMLRN5dvU36X...
jul 7, 2025, 3:42 pm • 8 3 • view
Thanks, just put a hold on it at my local library.
jul 7, 2025, 3:59 pm • 3 0 • view
If anyone’s interested, I would highly recommend people also check out these channels. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1oM... m.youtube.com/watch?v=brgP...
jul 8, 2025, 4:34 am • 1 0 • view
Actually, that Joris guy might be a tankie, or tankie adjacent, so proceed with caution..
jul 19, 2025, 6:59 pm • 0 0 • view
It's an incredible book.
jul 7, 2025, 5:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Agreed
jul 7, 2025, 11:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Adding that to my TBR. Here's another couple great books on activism/organizing that I read recently.
jul 8, 2025, 8:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Thanks!
jul 8, 2025, 10:46 pm • 1 0 • view
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jul 7, 2025, 9:34 pm • 0 0 • view
i am also reading this right now. My daughter bought it at Dachau when we were in Germany (2018)
jul 7, 2025, 5:27 pm • 1 0 • view
jul 7, 2025, 3:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Do you yell at everyone who speaks a language you don’t understand?
jul 7, 2025, 4:20 pm • 2 0 • view
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jul 7, 2025, 4:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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jul 7, 2025, 10:43 pm • 0 0 • view
I read it a few months back. I heard horrible things about this book, and NONE of it was true. An excellent story about a Jewish couple trying to survive the holocaust.
jul 7, 2025, 1:36 pm • 2 0 • view
It is truly immoral and inaccurate,but yet expected that hysterical liars would compare a detention center for illegal migrants who broke the law, to nazi concentration camps that incinerated people. Shameful and dangerous.
jul 7, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Without due process, they're not criminals.
jul 7, 2025, 4:53 pm • 0 0 • view
They are here illegally. By definition they have broken the law.
jul 7, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
I was watching a documentary about Nazi Germany last night, and one just can't help but see the parallels between Hitler exterminating 6 million Jews and Trump deporting illegal immigrants back to their home countries.
jul 7, 2025, 3:33 pm • 7 0 • view
Another book you should all read is Miné Okubo's "Citizen 13660." She published this book immediately after WWII, chronicling her experiences in the concentration camps here in the U.S. While the subject is similar to Takei's book, there's an immediacy to Okubo's drawings and prose. Worth reading.
jul 7, 2025, 5:19 am • 120 30 • view
One thing to add to all the comments here: what most don't know is that Canada also rounded up their Japanese residents/citizens, and put them in camp. This tragic story in both countries hasn't been talked about enough, compared with the horrors of Europe. All these stories are important to know.
jul 7, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks for the recommendation.
jul 7, 2025, 7:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Thanks for the rec!
jul 7, 2025, 5:22 am • 6 0 • view
Thanks for the heads up about this - somehow I'd managed to never hear of it before.
jul 7, 2025, 4:42 pm • 1 0 • view
What I'd like to know is what happened to all those who had everything seized, no money, no place to go when they were released. Where did they sleep, eat, and how did they go to school, work? By the late 60s and 70s most were doing well in L.A. HOW did they accomplish that?
jul 7, 2025, 6:42 am • 11 1 • view
Like their European peers, they either went back home or started over elsewhere. Some never fully recovered. Some were able to stay temporarily with friends or neighbors. My family knew Miné's brother, Benji. He returned to Los Angeles and had to start over again.
jul 7, 2025, 3:21 pm • 5 1 • view
There are so many stories! What did the people with no friends or relatives do? They had no resources for even a place to sleep since I imagine they had little money and might be turned away from lodging. What courage they had!
jul 7, 2025, 5:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Good question. Some got jobs as fast as they could. Those who were religious got help through their church. Others went back only to find their homes occupied. Many found hostility from former neighbors/communities. However, not as many memoirs/books on this compared with the Holocaust experience.
jul 7, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
When the camps were closed in Poland many had to walk across entire country to get home.
jul 7, 2025, 6:58 am • 6 1 • view
I remember reading about that, heard of it from Poles I met. But Japanese Americans HAD no homes. They and their businesses, farms were confiscated and sold. Nowhere to walk TO.
jul 7, 2025, 7:02 am • 9 0 • view
The same was true for European camp survivors. Some had nothing to return to at all, and many had no family left. They also had nowhere to go to either. But both groups started over and persevered the best they could.
jul 7, 2025, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Japanese Americans are resilient. While in the camps they worked, saved, and started again. They had their talent, crafts, and family. They didn't walk out of the camps with nothing and no place to go.
jul 7, 2025, 12:06 pm • 2 0 • view
How could they "save" when they weren't paid? I've been to Manzanar. Saw their resilience there. It's afterward when they had no money, weren't welcome, family had also been removed, and to my knowledge got no help from the Red Cross. It's a powerful story not well told. They DID have nothing.
jul 7, 2025, 7:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Most were paid (but not at first!), but those that worked (whether in the camps or outside) were paid far less than before WWII and less than other Americans. They saved what they could. You're correct though; almost no post-internment support, compared with European camp survivors.
jul 7, 2025, 8:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Good to know because at Manzanar that was most definitely NOT told to our group that was Muslim Americans and Japanese Americans combined c. 2005. We learned a lot about how they built self sufficiency within the camp. Nothing about being paid. Doesn't change how at sea they must have been 1945.
jul 7, 2025, 9:14 pm • 1 0 • view
I am not an expert (or a camp survivor), so I can't say for certain. But from my studies/readings, they weren't initially paid for work, and then later they were. Not sure if that was uniform across all camps and all regions, though. I do know they were paid less than they should have been.
jul 7, 2025, 11:33 pm • 2 0 • view
I believe you are correct. As the war continued things did change in the camps. I am no expert either but from what I have read that is the impression that I got.
jul 8, 2025, 12:34 am • 1 0 • view
that is actually my point. Once they got over the shock they got to work and made it a place they could live in. By the end of the war Manzanar was small-town America...with armed guards. that is a resilience they carried with them out the gate and that is far from nothing.
jul 7, 2025, 9:34 pm • 1 0 • view
"Farewell to Manzanar" "They Called Us Enemy" "Snow Falling on Cedars" "Only what We Could Carry" (I beg to differ; the story IS well told.)
jul 7, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view
All good books. But ChurchLady is correct. The Japanese American WWII experience is not as well documented in fiction and literature compared with the European experience. Very few films as well. It's a story that needs to be told more often, especially now that we're repeating this.
jul 7, 2025, 8:59 pm • 2 0 • view
to be fair all non-European experiences are lacking. Unless you can squeeze in a little "white savior" in the story it most likely will not be told. I think that is what made "Roots" so groundbreaking.
jul 7, 2025, 9:27 pm • 2 0 • view
I think a lot of it was cultural reticence, so there wasn't a lot of openness about the Japanese-American experience in WWII. I agree racism/non-European perspectives a huge factor. I remember when Roots came out. It was definitely a big deal and changed the conversation to a degree.
jul 7, 2025, 11:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Excuse me - it's not told in history books which is why I asked the question. Thank you for citing resources in memoires. And no thanks for being snotty to someone asking.
jul 7, 2025, 8:58 pm • 1 0 • view
I apologize if I caused offense. This is a subject close to my heart. The Japanese Americans were victimized but refused to be victims. Public education and textbooks tend to omit or skim over a whole bunch of history.
jul 7, 2025, 9:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Which camps are you talking about? The death camps or the work camps?
jul 7, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Both actually eventually there was Red Cross help. But thousands had no documents, food, or clothing. They were on there own.
jul 7, 2025, 6:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, then, I'll have to correct you. Very few people in Nazi concentration camps went home, and those from the death camps were taken on death marches by the Nazis in hopes they'd die and take their knowledge of the perpetrators with them.
jul 7, 2025, 9:27 pm • 3 1 • view
Even for those rescued, "home" was gone. Family were missing, presumed dead. The reunification process was years in the making for those who had surviving family. Property? Gone. Work? Gone. We cannot fathom the hardships.
jul 7, 2025, 9:42 pm • 1 0 • view
And people who did go home and try to reclaim their property faced the possibility of being turned away at best or murdered at worst.
jul 7, 2025, 9:52 pm • 1 0 • view
The ones that got back to the Netherlands found other people were living in their houses. They were mostly met with hostility. Many of them moved to Israel.
jul 7, 2025, 2:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I am speaking of the Japanese-Americans who, to my knowledge, had no Red Cross intervention to help them get anywhere. Everything they had was also gone. How did they survive FREEDOM from the camps with NOTHING? They did. How?
jul 7, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
What happened to their houses?
jul 7, 2025, 8:01 pm • 0 0 • view
EVERYONE needs to check this out from their library or buy it. Phenomenal book.
jul 7, 2025, 11:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Essential reading, but let's be clear that dehumanising detention centres in the US aren't new. Human rights advocates have rightly called them concentration camps for years, including under Biden and Obama. The outrage is overdue.
jul 7, 2025, 1:02 pm • 3 0 • view
That's a brilliant, heartbreaking book. And to the MAGA slobs who scoffed when we predicted concentration camps, I extend a hearty, "F^ck you all."
jul 7, 2025, 2:09 pm • 6 0 • view
I have this on my night stand. I haven’t started it yet, I guess it’s time!
jul 7, 2025, 11:15 am • 1 0 • view
Man...I remember reading this in high school and everybody said how they wouldn't allow a concentration camp. At that time I couldn't put into words why I didn't believe them...but now here we are...
jul 7, 2025, 6:45 am • 5 0 • view
I was only ever able to get through it once.....it hurt to much. But the lesson remained, believe me.
jul 7, 2025, 4:48 am • 10 0 • view
People should read Lobo. (Or watch "The Boys")
jul 7, 2025, 6:42 am • 1 0 • view
Or read the graphic novels…
jul 7, 2025, 8:10 am • 1 0 • view
IIRC, Maus is available to read for free on the Internet archive, correct?
jul 8, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
i love that book so much
jul 7, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Good advice. I have it at home and I’ll read it when I get back there later in the week.
jul 7, 2025, 10:20 am • 1 0 • view
There have been Kz's on US soil before. Just as @georgetakei.bsky.social
jul 7, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
You might enjoy the Banned Books book club, cc @retired-librarian.bsky.social 👍
jul 7, 2025, 7:34 pm • 1 0 • view
I bought this several years ago. Save our books.
jul 7, 2025, 4:26 am • 1 0 • view
i just read 1 & 2 last week. followed it up with They Call Us Enemy by George Takei. i was struck by a bizarre coincidence: Ex. Order 9066 was signed and issued and the first newspaper report of the Holocaust occurred on the same day: February 19th, 1942. let that sink in for a minute.
jul 7, 2025, 4:02 am • 8 0 • view
We’ve had concentration camps before. That’s bad enough. This is more like a death camp.
jul 7, 2025, 8:27 am • 2 0 • view
Maus is banned in many school libraries.
jul 7, 2025, 12:13 pm • 2 0 • view
A great reason to read it!
jul 7, 2025, 5:29 pm • 1 0 • view
I’ve owned that book for years now. Just reread it.
jul 8, 2025, 4:39 am • 0 0 • view
Well, at least someone's doing their homework on the American tradition of concentration camps. Progress?
jul 7, 2025, 4:44 am • 0 0 • view
Not the first 忘れな。
jul 7, 2025, 1:36 am • 1 0 • view
thats banned as woke
jul 7, 2025, 3:22 am • 2 0 • view
Here you go- Incredible movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnLT...
jul 8, 2025, 5:31 am • 0 0 • view
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
jul 8, 2025, 5:31 am • 0 0 • view
There was “plausible deniability” in sending people to El Salvador and other detention centers. Not the case in Florida. This one is all Trump.
jul 7, 2025, 7:55 am • 2 0 • view
This is GENOCIDE. Where are the international human rights orgs when WE need them?
jul 7, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
We just read them at our house, too. Both books one and two. From the library.
jul 7, 2025, 1:35 am • 4 0 • view
there is NOW a concentration camp on our soil? did you forget the border "facilities" we've had since the obama administration?
jul 7, 2025, 4:05 am • 0 0 • view
Fair critique of my wording. It's just the newest, most obvious one that people are still in denial about.
jul 7, 2025, 4:11 am • 3 0 • view
Obama also didn’t send immigrants to foreign torture prisons without due process, disappear people coming the “right way” from immigration hearings nor did he deport children with cancer.
jul 7, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
my bad, stuffing kids in cages was ok because he didn't do a bunch of unrelated stuff
jul 9, 2025, 11:01 pm • 0 0 • view
www.yahoo.com/news/stephen...
jul 9, 2025, 11:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Obama did not intentionally separate children from parents. He held unaccompanied minors for 72 hours. So your false equivalence only works on the uninformed and gullible www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
jul 9, 2025, 11:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Obama didn’t go to court to deny those held in detention including children basic necessities. He also didn’t separate children including babies frm parents w/no intention of returning them. That was all Nazi ghoul Stephen miller who went on Sunday shows to take credit. www.gq.com/story/stephe...
jul 7, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
oh they got to share a cage thank god
jul 9, 2025, 11:03 pm • 0 0 • view
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...
jul 9, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
When you brag that you were the one to convince Trump the moron to implement zero tolerance separating children & babies from parents w/no intention of returning them while going to court to deny these same children basic necessities you are following the Nazi playbook. Pro children my ass.
jul 9, 2025, 11:13 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ll have to dig my copy out again
jul 7, 2025, 3:02 am • 3 0 • view
What a wonderful horrible beautiful choice!
jul 8, 2025, 12:42 am • 0 0 • view
You've inspired me to do the same. And re-read The Diary of Anne Frank.
jul 7, 2025, 3:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Maus II also
jul 7, 2025, 1:07 pm • 1 0 • view
I had to watch “De Nuremberg a Nuremberg” in middle school. Had nightmares about it for a long time. m.imdb.com/title/tt0271...
jul 7, 2025, 7:04 am • 2 0 • view
Yes, because putting illegal gang members who have raped and murdered people in jail, is the same and executing millions of innocent people. Looks good to me, what’s your problem
jul 7, 2025, 5:50 pm • 0 0 • view
😭 such an important book. So sad to read, so important to remember. This all happen not so long ago, this is happening again :(
jul 7, 2025, 5:44 pm • 1 0 • view
That it's become banned in schools is a very difficult to reconcile, if only because the venn diagram of people who say "it's too adult for kids to read that" and those who purport "it's fake" overlap a disturbing amount.
jul 7, 2025, 12:48 am • 14 2 • view
It got banned? That was a popular book to take out from the library when I was in school. I read it because there was a cool kid reading it and the cover looked scary.
jul 7, 2025, 4:19 am • 4 0 • view
Yeah I think this was the first instance in 2022: Holocaust novel ‘Maus’ banned in Tennessee school district | PBS News share.google/l6QlT6d0zdve...
jul 7, 2025, 4:22 am • 11 3 • view
The few pages where he jumps to his other book (where his mom is dead in the bathtub) was the cause of the ban...and not for showing suicide, but because she was naked. Yup it really was that dumb of a reason for the ban.
jul 7, 2025, 10:59 am • 1 0 • view
The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill. The LEMA Master Plan is very similar to Project 2025, but with giant semitrucks taking over.
jul 7, 2025, 10:57 pm • 1 0 • view
I read this in high school.. it changed my life.
jul 7, 2025, 4:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Such a great book. If it's not presumptuous of me to do so, I also really recommend the biographical novels of Christopher Isherwood 'Mr Norris Changes Trains' & 'Goodbye To Berlin'. A really brilliant account of how these awful things take hold of society. Chillingly close to home atm
jul 7, 2025, 3:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Thanks for the rec!
jul 7, 2025, 3:43 pm • 1 0 • view
These are the novels that inspired 'Cabaret'
jul 7, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
That is such a good book.
jul 7, 2025, 2:19 pm • 1 0 • view
I think you might possibly be a little late. The time to read and understand Maus was before any of this happened. Now that it has happened (is happening), it's quite possibly too late to do anything about it.
jul 7, 2025, 1:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Not my first time reading about the Holocaust. Just my first time reading this particular book.
jul 7, 2025, 3:54 pm • 2 0 • view
Apols.
jul 7, 2025, 4:19 pm • 1 0 • view
As a foreign friend: There has always been camps like that in US soil or in partners abroad. I just read "They Called Us Enemy" from George Takei. It is a good follow up on MAUS if you're in the mood.
jul 7, 2025, 3:23 am • 22 1 • view
Good point. Just the newest, most obvious one that people are still in denial about.
jul 7, 2025, 4:10 am • 10 0 • view
I gave the Maus set to my grandkids. Start 'em out early.
jul 7, 2025, 3:02 pm • 5 0 • view
Read it this year as well
jul 7, 2025, 2:42 am • 1 0 • view
My collection of graphic novels and the issues of justice, genocide, historic events: (1)
jul 7, 2025, 8:19 am • 7 0 • view
Palestine…. Might be controversial but should be required reading (3)
jul 7, 2025, 8:26 am • 6 0 • view
Maus…. Also required reading, this is my third or fourth copy… (4)
jul 7, 2025, 8:28 am • 6 0 • view
Welcome to the New World…. Immigrant & Refugee experience of 1st Trump administration (5)
jul 7, 2025, 8:31 am • 6 0 • view
They Called Us Enemy…. George Takei’s life narrative especially for the US should be required reading (6)
jul 7, 2025, 8:35 am • 6 0 • view
New Kid…. Trauma of middle school and personal development when you are the new kid…. Worth reading…. These personal narratives are often a catalyst for helping people to open up to the horrors of wider oppression, trauma of war, human inhumanity (7)
jul 7, 2025, 8:42 am • 3 0 • view
Persepolis…. Autobiographical way to tell the story of Iran… again should be required (8)
jul 7, 2025, 8:46 am • 6 0 • view
Thanks for sharing all of these! I'm new to graphic novels.
jul 7, 2025, 1:18 pm • 1 0 • view
They should create one for the torture that is normalized on animals every day. Instead of calling them "Slaughterhouses" now they call them "Meat Packing Plants" ugh.
jul 7, 2025, 12:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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jul 7, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Any that have not read, should make priority.
jul 7, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
This was required reading for my kid in high school just a few years ago.
jul 7, 2025, 2:09 pm • 4 0 • view
Given the level of blood lust by the children of holocaust survivors in Gaza, there should be a Maus Redux .Its going on here but its worse in Israel.It seems the is no lesson to be learned
jul 8, 2025, 12:10 am • 1 0 • view
[in my best Gandalf voice] “Vote you fools!”
jul 7, 2025, 11:42 am • 1 0 • view
Traitor tRUmp is a crook, too. And he lies, obviously.
jul 7, 2025, 9:06 am • 1 0 • view
That book they banned in schools ?
jul 7, 2025, 9:42 pm • 0 0 • view
the strangest thing is that book was banned because people thought it was pro nazi due to the fact it had a swastika on the cover (as in that was their arguement)
jul 7, 2025, 12:31 pm • 1 0 • view
i've read the first book, and it was very heart-wrenching.
jul 7, 2025, 4:59 am • 5 0 • view
A great book (s)
jul 7, 2025, 3:16 pm • 2 0 • view
Ain't the first time we've had 'em. Ask @georgetakei.bsky.social .
jul 7, 2025, 7:31 am • 2 0 • view
that wont solve anything I fear this part of some kind of cycle
jul 7, 2025, 10:03 am • 0 0 • view
HELL YES. read it in 'heavy metal' mag, back in the day!
jul 7, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Picked them both up in the last several months at our local bookstore.
jul 7, 2025, 2:51 am • 1 0 • view
I should pull out my copies, too.
jul 7, 2025, 1:25 pm • 1 0 • view
It's really good
jul 7, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Same!!!
jul 8, 2025, 5:35 am • 0 0 • view
Sadly there have long been concentration camps in North Amerika. Jails are almost exclusively populated with the poor folk, people of colour, indigenous folks . We tend to keep rich white folk, when they get caught, and on rare occasions prosecuted for breaking the law in minimum security jails,.
jul 7, 2025, 11:55 am • 1 0 • view
Hate to be pedantic, but there are some very important differences between jails and concentration camps. Jails operate within the boundaries of the law (however imperfectly). Whereas the essence of concentration camps is that they operate entirely outside the law.
jul 7, 2025, 1:27 pm • 5 0 • view
Do you think Alligator Auschwitz is legal? If so, is it moral? I'm today's US legal climate, anything goes.
jul 7, 2025, 2:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Of course it's not moral. In today's legal climate, whether it's legal is a quesion worth asking. I don't know if it's 'legal'; but, of course, anything Trump does as president is now, by definition, and thanks to the supreme court, not illegal.
jul 7, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Is your point that Auschwitz and the American camps for Japanese people during WW2 were in fact illegal under nazi and American law, respectively? Or that they weren't concentration camps either under your definition?
jul 7, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Nazi concentration camps weren't illegal - but they did exist in a legal vacuum. And Auschwitz was definitely a concentration camp. Don't know anything about Japanese internment camps.
jul 8, 2025, 5:37 am • 0 0 • view
I now feel both a Societal and Spiritual Obligation to read this.
jul 7, 2025, 5:34 am • 2 0 • view
Great book! Reread this and vol 2 earlier this year.
jul 8, 2025, 1:44 am • 0 0 • view
I order this when they first banned it.
jul 7, 2025, 1:46 pm • 1 0 • view
No wonder why they wanted to ban that book.
jul 7, 2025, 2:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Read Sinclair Lewis “It Can’t Happen Here.” (1935)
jul 7, 2025, 5:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Yup, I have.
jul 7, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
heartwrenchingly bold and uncompromising art. should be required reading in schools, but is banned in many schools
jul 7, 2025, 2:45 pm • 1 0 • view
I re read it a couple months ago.
jul 7, 2025, 2:49 pm • 1 0 • view
An excellent graphic novel.
jul 7, 2025, 11:57 am • 2 0 • view
It’s really good. Very powerful
jul 7, 2025, 8:55 am • 1 0 • view
It’s so intense and beautiful and horrifying and funny and epic. Enjoy, but not too much.
jul 7, 2025, 2:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Should be on everyone's reading list, no matter which country. A fantastic piece of work.
jul 7, 2025, 6:58 am • 4 0 • view
If you get a chance I highly recommend finding the CD of when he interviews his dad for the story. Hearing him panting on a exercise bike (idea was to get him back in adrenaline/stress mode) is fascinating and horrifying in context.
jul 7, 2025, 11:01 am • 7 0 • view
Whoa I can't believe they published that. That's amazing. I'll go look for it.
jul 7, 2025, 1:17 pm • 6 0 • view
Yeah the CD was in the METAMAUS book, which is the story of how MAUS was made. Amazing stuff.
jul 7, 2025, 1:36 pm • 7 0 • view
📌
jul 7, 2025, 10:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Just finished 50% of book 2. It's worth pushing through.
jul 7, 2025, 12:45 am • 4 0 • view
I have this too and treasure it
jul 7, 2025, 5:56 am • 1 0 • view
There is now, once again, a concentration camp on US soil. Remember our internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.
jul 7, 2025, 5:38 am • 4 0 • view
Just a reminder that Spiegelman is working on a graphic novel on the genocide in Palestine
jul 7, 2025, 1:14 pm • 15 0 • view
Great historical fiction
jul 7, 2025, 11:20 pm • 1 0 • view
We've had them for years, toots.
jul 7, 2025, 12:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I read that about 5 years ago for the first time. I might do the same.
jul 7, 2025, 1:07 am • 4 0 • view
I read that earlier this year and it was ROUGH!
jul 7, 2025, 1:31 am • 3 0 • view
Democrats did the same crap, just had the shame to try and hide it
jul 7, 2025, 7:29 pm • 0 0 • view
An incredible piece of work – probably the single most important ‘comic book’ ever made. A tutor showed my class a copy 30 years ago, and ‘the story’ never left me.
jul 7, 2025, 5:46 am • 4 0 • view
This is the bravery I needed to see today. Thank you for this.
jul 7, 2025, 2:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Funny to see that, I just ordered that book last week at my local libray. Can't wait for it to arrive and go pick it up
jul 7, 2025, 1:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Who needs an El Salvadoran camp to send US citizens too. US has there own. I guess that's OK, Right? Always wondered how, in WW2, German citizens did nothing about the death camps in thier back yards! I now see the US citizens looking the other way, cause if you don't look, then it's ok, right?
jul 7, 2025, 6:29 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m so glad I still have a copy! #bannedbooks #booksky
jul 7, 2025, 9:47 pm • 1 0 • view
jul 7, 2025, 10:16 am • 0 0 • view
I read that and I wept.
jul 7, 2025, 2:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Gotta break out my copy now too.
jul 7, 2025, 1:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Excellent book
jul 7, 2025, 2:16 pm • 2 0 • view
Read Palestine by Joe Sacco while you are at it. Two classics, both haunting.
jul 7, 2025, 9:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Added to my shopping list.
jul 7, 2025, 1:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Great book! Good choice considering our current situation.
jul 7, 2025, 5:27 am • 1 0 • view
Time for a sequel set in Trumpland. But how to cast it? Hispanics = Copyu? In the original, German Nazis were cats and the local antisemitic Poles were pigs. In Trumpland MAGAss would be pigs (esp. the Rapist), but then ICE would be too. Dems would be gophers, hiding in holes until it's all over.
jul 7, 2025, 9:44 am • 0 0 • view
Maus taught me more about WWII than years of history class… I never put a textbook down crying, but Maus made me feel the pain and desperation of the moment and I had to put it down several times because I was crying and was emotionally overwhelmed.
jul 7, 2025, 3:00 pm • 3 0 • view
It really tapped in to the fear of that time
jul 7, 2025, 5:39 pm • 1 0 • view
i remember reading this in high school. its chilling how our current reality is slowly looking more and more like this
jul 7, 2025, 4:37 am • 1 0 • view
Excellent book. 💙✌
jul 7, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 7, 2025, 1:27 am • 0 0 • view
Noem's Kremling cosplay could use some work.
jul 7, 2025, 2:56 am • 0 0 • view
This story breaks my heart. Such an inhuman and heartless slaughter of millions of innocent people. 😞
jul 7, 2025, 12:56 am • 2 0 • view
Great book!!
jul 7, 2025, 2:55 pm • 1 0 • view
People should read it earlier to avoid Trump
jul 7, 2025, 6:46 am • 2 0 • view
It’s an amazing book.
jul 7, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Meowdolf Kitler
jul 7, 2025, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I think a huge difference is they weren't selling merch celebrating the concentration camps back in the 30's & 40's, which frankly horrifies me about what is realistically possible with this government.
jul 7, 2025, 3:25 am • 9 0 • view
It's a powerful graphic novel. I had to go for a walk after.
jul 7, 2025, 5:25 am • 3 0 • view
To be fair, it's not the first.
jul 7, 2025, 2:58 pm • 1 0 • view
A classic.
jul 7, 2025, 6:51 am • 2 0 • view
I have been wanting to purchase this after I finish books by Anne Applebaum and Timothy Snyder and the many banned books I have already purchased.
jul 7, 2025, 11:28 am • 3 0 • view
I have my copy from back in the day. Just an incredible book. My favorite book as a kid has been banned. Harriet the Spy
jul 7, 2025, 5:24 pm • 2 0 • view
What?! I WAS Harriet the Spy. I walked my neighborhood after school with a notebook. Still have my well-loved, tattered copy. p.s. My favorite genres: espionage and detective novels (hmmnn, or are they non-fiction).
jul 7, 2025, 7:34 pm • 1 0 • view
It promotes children questioning and lying to adults, according to the person with a problem with it. It also promotes self-reliance, original, thinking, and problem-solving skills . It's weird to me that they wanna ban Harriet the spy but Fifty Shades of Grey is fine with everyone.
jul 7, 2025, 7:40 pm • 1 0 • view
I will check it out. Thanks
jul 7, 2025, 5:56 pm • 1 0 • view
My pleasure, enjoy!
jul 7, 2025, 5:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Its an important work, very strong
jul 7, 2025, 7:12 am • 2 0 • view
Alligator Alcatraz is more like the American concentration camps for Japanese Americans in WW2. ie, no mass murder.
jul 7, 2025, 2:58 am • 0 0 • view
Sure, no gas chambers. But most German concentration camps didn't have the chambers either. A lot of people died from lack of care, starvation, dehydration, poor hygiene, typhoid, etc. From what we know about AA, these facilities also don't look suitable for human life and dignity.
jul 7, 2025, 3:07 am • 8 1 • view
no mass murder YET how will we know
jul 7, 2025, 3:39 am • 1 0 • view
The Alligator Alcatraz guards would be gleefully sharing their sadism on social media.
jul 7, 2025, 4:51 am • 1 0 • view
Wait til the first hurricane
jul 7, 2025, 4:59 pm • 1 0 • view
it didn't start with the gas chambers
jul 7, 2025, 4:11 am • 5 0 • view
And America has yet to reach the point of gas chambers.
jul 7, 2025, 4:50 am • 0 0 • view
it took Nazis Germany 9 years to get to gas chambers in the first 6 months of this Regime we are already in year 6
jul 7, 2025, 6:17 am • 4 0 • view
Anne Frank didn’t die in the gas chambers. She died from the filth, neglect and malnutrition in the camps that led to typhus.
jul 7, 2025, 4:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Ah, good point.
jul 8, 2025, 3:12 am • 0 0 • view
I purchased a copy of this specifically to protect it for the coming events. I'm going full Gordon Deitrich.
jul 7, 2025, 1:47 pm • 3 0 • view
This is book is on book ban list here in Texas along with The Diary of Anne Frank. This book is educational.
jul 7, 2025, 9:05 pm • 2 0 • view
So terribly sad. But don't forget we the US interred Japanese Americans during WWII.
jul 7, 2025, 12:52 pm • 2 0 • view
My 10 yr old grandson and I just finished the second volume. Glad you are reading it, too.
jul 8, 2025, 2:21 am • 0 0 • view
That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time
jul 7, 2025, 3:31 am • 2 0 • view
I've been suggesting it for the last year.
jul 7, 2025, 1:31 am • 2 0 • view
It’s excruciating.
jul 7, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Not the first time that’s happened on American soil. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internm...
jul 7, 2025, 9:48 pm • 0 0 • view
A horrible sentence ,to write, let alone....know that.
jul 7, 2025, 1:45 pm • 0 0 • view
I recommend Timothy Snyder's, On Tyranny, as well. A booklet, essentially giving 20 ways to deal with this current situation. It also comes in a graphic novel style
jul 7, 2025, 12:40 pm • 9 0 • view
Thanks for the rec! I saw that one the other day. Definitely adding to the TBR now.
jul 7, 2025, 1:15 pm • 4 0 • view
You can follow him on BSKY: @timothysnyder.bsky.social
jul 7, 2025, 1:21 pm • 5 0 • view
They have an honored place in our bookshelf.
jul 7, 2025, 12:16 pm • 2 0 • view
Good reading choice
jul 7, 2025, 8:29 am • 1 0 • view
Yes it’s a concentration camp but it’s not even close to anything that happened during the Holocaust.
jul 7, 2025, 1:05 pm • 0 0 • view
And let’s hope it doesn’t get there.
jul 7, 2025, 1:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Part 1 and Part 2 tell the whole story
jul 7, 2025, 11:27 am • 3 0 • view
I need to read that one again. Remember reading it in the library of my middle school and it was a really interesting read
jul 7, 2025, 2:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh but is isn’t like the ones Biden and Obama had where they were put in cramped cages! This one clean and each person has a bed and stay for about 30 days, then processed out.
jul 7, 2025, 12:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Certainly been thinking about it a lot lately...
jul 7, 2025, 11:20 am • 1 0 • view
Brilliant book. Brilliant idea. Bet it’s banned in Florida.
jul 7, 2025, 5:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Great book.
jul 7, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Congrats! It's tops. And horrible.
jul 7, 2025, 6:29 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s one of the hardest and most striking comic book series I’ve ever read. Highly recommended.
jul 7, 2025, 5:07 am • 6 0 • view
It's hardly the first one.
jul 7, 2025, 3:36 am • 1 0 • view
And with ICE now having a larger budget than the Russian military it certainly won’t be the last.
jul 7, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Great idea! I'm gonna go pull mine off the shelf now!
jul 7, 2025, 1:08 pm • 1 0 • view
you're a conversationalist. Let's talk about alternatives to migration. Is it really the most humane approach to a country treating its citizens so badly? Maybe the US would be better suited to help fix the corrupt Mexican government, allowing it's citizens to remain in their native homeland.
jul 7, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Donating copies to high school libraries gives important results: 1) if they leave it on the shelf, the kids might read it and learn, and 2) if, as is true where we are, it is seized and banned, you know the kids are being denied appropriate education.
jul 7, 2025, 11:46 am • 7 1 • view
We teach it in 9th grade - every 9th grade English class at my school
jul 7, 2025, 11:59 am • 5 0 • view
I am pleased to hear it!
jul 7, 2025, 1:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Want kid to read Maus ? Just tell them they are forbidden to read Maus.
jul 7, 2025, 12:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Also try They called us Enemy by George Takei.
jul 7, 2025, 4:45 pm • 2 0 • view
This one appreciates that book and its social commentary. Enjoy your educational read. It’s truly a deep thinker.
jul 7, 2025, 12:39 pm • 0 0 • view
I need to get a copy of this
jul 7, 2025, 3:33 am • 1 0 • view
Oh dear, I remember reading this.. kind of scared to reread it
jul 7, 2025, 3:42 am • 2 0 • view
You can also watch FOX... Malheureusement on n'apprend rien, jamais...
jul 7, 2025, 1:00 pm • 1 0 • view
These books are so interesting to read! I remember during my first year at Whitman College, my classmates and I all had to read these books and discuss it in class. ❤️📚
jul 7, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
It should really be in high school English class curriculum. But that’s never going to happen while fascists are running our schools…
jul 8, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
it's ALWAYS time to read Maus
jul 7, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view
If you are completly honest, there were concentration camps in the US before. Think of all the southern plantations. Concentration camps and gulags for PoC.
jul 7, 2025, 12:23 pm • 3 0 • view
You got to read maus 2 after you read maus. You just got too
jul 7, 2025, 3:50 am • 3 1 • view
My copy has both inside!
jul 7, 2025, 4:02 am • 1 1 • view
Amazing
jul 7, 2025, 1:34 pm • 1 0 • view
I have read the mouse book when it first appeared..😢
jul 7, 2025, 6:30 pm • 0 0 • view
did u hear this : bsky.app/profile/toet...
jul 7, 2025, 6:29 pm • 0 0 • view
And off to thrift books I go!
jul 7, 2025, 7:27 am • 2 0 • view
I bought the book also in light of what's been going on. Haven't started it yet.
jul 7, 2025, 7:58 am • 2 0 • view
I just got this book for Christmas this past year and haven't read it yet. Share your thoughts!
jul 7, 2025, 3:29 pm • 1 0 • view
There are ways to fight back. eugenevdebsghost.substack.com/p/fighting-g...
jul 7, 2025, 3:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Would also recommend Night by Elie Wiesel
jul 7, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Also, it’s good to remember that we invented concentration camps, and held Native Americans there in the 1830s. (We called them “emigration depots.”)
jul 7, 2025, 7:31 am • 11 1 • view
Excellent book!
jul 7, 2025, 3:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I feel like its a slap in the face when people today who have never experienced the horrors of TRUE concentration camps and the TRUE horrors of naziism, abuse the words by associating freedoms or laws today, with those things. It's an insult to those who actually DID experience them.
jul 8, 2025, 12:44 am • 0 0 • view
I think I have bought 20 copies of that book and given them away to people to read since it came out . Maybe 25
jul 7, 2025, 10:44 am • 2 0 • view
My husband & I both had our own personal copies. There are two volumes. I bought and read mine last century. They are very disturbing comics.
jul 7, 2025, 6:50 pm • 2 0 • view
It's still under construction. We can still sabotage and stop this. But we need a collection of individuals to achieve this
jul 7, 2025, 11:12 am • 0 0 • view
I read it in high school, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. I never expected it to happen here.
jul 7, 2025, 12:38 pm • 3 0 • view
jul 7, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Gitmo under USA control...
jul 7, 2025, 10:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe it's more like a gulag.
jul 7, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
There were concentration camps on US soil throughout WWII. They held US citizens and permanent residents whose only “crime” was being of Japanese descent!
jul 7, 2025, 1:27 am • 9 2 • view
Absolutely. Also, something ppl don't know is that practices in Texas of fumigating Mexicans crossing the border was inspiration for the German gas chambers. share.google/KK8bF8kT7mpU...
jul 7, 2025, 1:35 am • 10 3 • view
Hitler also took inspiration from Jim Crow laws. America has never lived up to its many promises.
jul 7, 2025, 2:25 am • 10 3 • view
I’m going to be visiting one of those camps this week, Manzanar. I’ve been several times before, but I know this time will hit different.
jul 7, 2025, 3:18 am • 4 1 • view
Remember Manzanar, Minidoka and other www.archives.gov/education/le...
jul 7, 2025, 3:09 pm • 2 0 • view
I read the first book in February. I have the second one queued up in my reading list. What intrigued me about Spiegelman’s writing is how well he captured the cultural shifts of a country as it descended into fascism.
jul 7, 2025, 12:59 pm • 4 0 • view
And the feat that was endemic to that period
jul 7, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Great book. I read it when it was new.
jul 7, 2025, 2:35 pm • 3 0 • view
Gonna check this out...
jul 7, 2025, 2:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Looks like powerful stuff
jul 7, 2025, 9:52 am • 1 0 • view
Great book. Depressing, but well-done, nonetheless. I loaned mine to my niece.
jul 7, 2025, 6:55 am • 1 0 • view