Comic-Book Villains

Notwithstanding its intimate linkage with long-standing Christian tradition, the Holocaust did have its disadvantages, some of which persist unto this day. The God-fearing state of Texas has done its part against the moral rot by sacking a teacher who showed thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds a comic-book adaptation of Anne Frank's diary, which includes details of her sexual curiosity that her father excised from the original 1947 publication. The adaptation has previously fallen foul of moral guardians in the God-fearing state of Florida, where a charmingly misnamed gaggle of harridans called Moms for Liberty preached that the accurate representation of what Anne Frank originally wrote constitutes a distortion of history. It is one thing to teach that some Jews were killed (the gays and the gipsies, let alone the commies, are generally considered unworthy of mention even outside the God-fearing state of Texas), but to imply that the Holocaust failed to prevent sexual self-exploration in teenagers is clearly a little too harsh.