ICYMI: What Barbra Streisand Has to Do With Banning Maus

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🗓️ 5 February 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Last month, a Tennessee school board voted to ban Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel about the Holocaust, Maus, from their eighth grade curriculum. This caused Maus to experience the the Streisand effect. On the show today, Rachelle and Madison explain the origins of the Streisand effect as an online phenomenon, how it helped Maus’ recent sales skyrocket, and why this short-term publicity isn’t really the solution to bans like these. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This morning, we're learning about a story that gives reason to worry about kids' futures.
0:09.2	What message are we sending?
0:11.2	Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and I'm Madison Malone-Curture.
0:16.3	You're listening to ICYMI.
0:18.4	In case you missed it.
0:19.8	Slates podcast about internet culture.
0:22.6	And in some non-news, Joyce Carolotes is wilding on Twitter again.
0:27.3	Oh, Lord, her tweets.
0:30.2	I think that of all the people who should no longer be on Twitter, Joyce Carolotes is one of them.
0:35.4	Because on Wednesday, she got Twitter just a hop in, a skip in again, because she decided to tweet.
0:43.6	And I quote,
0:44.6	When I was first married to my Jewish Jewishes and parentheses, my Jewish husband,
0:49.9	two Jewish women, friends of mine, took me aside and said, with rice miles, welcome to the club.
0:57.4	Soon, I knew what they meant.
1:04.6	What did they mean?
1:06.7	I am not being like performatively obtuse in the, uh, sometimes I play a little dumb,
1:13.2	so you can answer a question way as, as podcasts do.
1:16.0	I have no idea what this means.
1:17.8	Is this antisemitic?
1:19.7	Madison, I literally sent this to my roommate who is Jewish.
1:23.1	Mostly just to be like, Joyce Carolotes is wilding again.
1:26.0	But mostly just to be like, what, what's happening here?
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