mr. spiegelman put it to the new york times, he got the impression that what the board members were askingholocaust? this is a disturbing imagery. well, it is disturbing history. the mass example is just one example in an ongoing nationwide campaign to prevent u.s. students from learning history that parents think is discomforting. this week, a georgia south -- house committee allowed a bill that would allow parents to protest any books or online material that they think might be harmful to their kids. the fearmongering that over critical race theory has reached library bookshelves. and late last year, a texas republican compiled a list of 850 books he thought would, quote, make students feel discomfort, guilt, anguish because of race or sex. he sent the list to local superintendents -- often if they were on the library shelves. in texas, outside of austin, apparent complained about a book by jason reynolds -- called stamps, racism, anti-racism and you. now, the book is a history of racist ideas here in the united states. and the school district escalated that complaint and debated whether

mr. spiegelman, your book, and i have a copy of it here, is a brilliant way to discuss and let young people confront and understand the holocaust in a format that is popular with young people. graphic novel format. what do you make of these criticisms of the banning of your book based on it depicting nudity. we're talking about nude mice. mice being nude. please tell us. >> i think the thing that's so confusing about this is that the school board is stupid, but i don't know that they're nazis. i just know that they're stupid, the people that banned this. the reason they were banning the mouse picture that was upsetting to them, is a small panel of my mother who had just committed suicide by slashing her wrists in the bathtub and so there's a -- when the guests at the shiva, when the people come by for this thing to happen, the thoughts that are going through my head are, post menstrual depression, hitler did it, mommy with a picture of me very small in a concentration, cuddled up with her in bed as a little kid, and her cutting her wrists and the words "bitch" underneath. that was one of th