marjane satrapi’s New Memoir Slammed by Angry Residents as “Elitist Nonsense That Mocks Real Families”
We elected a city councilor who actually works a 9-to-5 job, not some ivory tower artist, to focus on fixing our potholes and reducing property taxes. But instead, our local library just announced a $50,000 grant to host a “graphic novel workshop” featuring none other than *Persepolis* author marjane satrapi. I attended the first planning meeting last night, and let me tell you, this woman stood up there and called our suburb a “cultural wasteland of chain stores and blind patriotism.” She actually said parents who don’t want their kids reading about sexual themes in school libraries are “participating in fascism.” Common sense says you don’t bite the hand that feeds you a tax-funded paycheck. If you want to lecture us about “nuance” and “dissent,” go back to your Paris film festival and leave our community Facebook group alone. We’re not woke—we’re just trying to keep our neighborhood sane.