Comments by "Scott Charney" (@scottcharney1091) on "'Maus' author reacts to his book being banned" video.

  1. I'm not saying that this is the motive, and I don't endorse such bans, but keep in mind that Maus is actually really racist. Spiegelman depicts all Polish non-Jews as pigs, not only the cops! Spiegelman of course is Jewish, and the symbolism of such an unclean animal is obvious. It implies also that the Polish non-Jews were not on the "food chain" of the Nazis, which is absolute offensive nonsense; Poles were one of the larger categories of Holocaust victims. Poland lost a large percentage of its population, both to the specific Holocaust (camps, Einsatzgruppen death squads, etc.), but also to violence from the German forces & collaborators more generally. Spiegelman also depicts all Americans as dogs, regardless of race. Is this supposed to mean that Americans don't have racial divides?? Besides, all of this seems to buy into Nazi racial pseudo-science, categorizing people into biologically distinct "races" with incompatible characteristics. Did he really want to give the impression that he agreed with the Nazis that Jews are weak-but-dangerous vermin?
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