The school unanimously voted to ban it due to the use of curse words like “goddamn” and brief appearances of nude women.
Kinda thought that their decision would have had something to do with the intentionally upsetting depictions of mass murder, but evidently mild cursing and cartoon nipples take precedent.
lbr, the the mild swears and brief nudity were almost certain just a smokescreen for the fact that the subject of the book makes them uncomfortable
Almost certainly. The book itself does draw parallels between the narrator’s family’s persecution by the Nazis and the racism aimed towards African American people for example (there’ s a scene where the narrator even points out to his dad, a concentration camp survivor, how it’s kind of hypocritical for him to be racist towards black people considering his own history, only for his dad to get angry at the comparison), so chances are there were at least some folks on the school board who didn’t want any of the kids to see the comparisons on display in the text itself.
As the comedian Dave Anthony puts it, the whole “critical race theory“ thing in the States at the moment is basically parents who are openly racist at home not wanting their kids to learn about how, say, the language that their parents use at home is bad due to the historical context. So urge to ban kids from learning about historical racism is done out of a fear that their kids would realise that their parents are BAD PEOPLE.