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Dr. Seuss Is Canceled

Post by Riddick » 03-02-2021 11:46 PM

The cancel culture bells have tolled for Dr. Seuss, the beloved author of children's books like Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Oh, the Places You'll Go.

President Biden declined to mention Dr. Seuss, the pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel, in his kickoff speech for Read Across America Day, a national event that promotes literacy and is historically connected with Dr. Seuss. (It even takes place on the author's birthday.)

While the Biden administration got the #DrSeussIsOverParty started, it's Seuss' own publisher who's really taking things to the next level. Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced that it would cease printing six books that contain vaguely racist imagery: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, McElligot's Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, If I Ran the Zoo, Scrambled Eggs Super!, and The Cat's Quizzer.

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Re: Dr. Seuss Is Canceled

Post by Doka » 03-03-2021 03:19 AM

What kind of Utopic government uses "Race" to control the masses? .......The Most Evil Racist government. "Utopia" it's not, Communist it is.

Race, Gender Change, Dead Babies their "Obsessions" are certainly not living in My head. But, some how seems to be totally acceptable by others.
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Christianity Is Canceled (?)

Post by Riddick » 03-03-2021 01:55 PM

Doka wrote: 03-03-2021 03:19 AM Race, Gender Change, Dead Babies their "Obsessions" are certainly not living in My head. But, some how seems to be totally acceptable by others.
Dead babies, yeah, that's ok. Even got a president who's fine with that though he's ostensibly a Catholic. Plus he's on board with the mulitple genders crowd. But hey, who needs Scriptures as a guide when you have a State creating Heaven on Earth -

The Bible? Despite its reputation, now THERE's a book that's up to no good! Wait & see - Start small, work up to the big time banning, that's the plan. Stay tuned...
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Re: Dr. Seuss Is Canceled

Post by Malaria_Kidd II » 03-03-2021 07:02 PM

Gracious sakes! This news appears just as we hoped strange things would disappear under a new executive branch! :oops:

Stay tuned for more cancelations!



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Why The Cancellation of Dr Seuss Matters

Post by Riddick » 03-04-2021 12:26 AM

This is not some confected culture-war spat. Woke zealots want to purge culture, and they’re succeeding. FULL STORY

This excerpt is particularly interesting:
As it happens, until recently Dr Seuss books have had a reputation for encouraging tolerance. The Sneetches and Other Stories, in particular, has been praised for its messages about overcoming differences. But today’s ‘anti-racist’ campaigners find even the Sneetches ‘problematic’.

‘The solution to the story’s conflict is that Plain-Belly Sneetches and Star-Bellied Sneetches simply get confused as to who is oppressed’, writes Learning for Justice, an education advisory group:
  • ‘As a result, they accept one another. This message of “acceptance” does not acknowledge structural power imbalances. It doesn’t address the idea that historical narratives impact present-day power structures. And instead of encouraging young readers to recognise and take action against injustice, the story promotes a race-neutral approach.’
You read that right. The Sneetches are apparently racist because they look at the world in a race-neutral way, and because they learn to accept one another. They obviously have not read Ibram X Kendi or absorbed critical race theory.
Also Of Related Interest:
Amazon Removes Only Black Supreme Court Justice

Clarence Thomas is currently our only black Supreme Court Justice. And as such, one would think Black History Month would celebrate his accomplishments. Instead, Amazon removed the documentary chronicling Thomas’ journey from their Prime platform.

Didn’t Amazon boast about “building an inclusive platform?” Some say Amazon spontaneously removes various documentaries with little or no warning. But considering the timing, this just smells a little fishy. Thomas is the only black conservative on the court. Meanwhile, plenty of liberal voices have been maintained on the streaming service, even if they are far less popular.

Thus, it’s hard to deny the reasoning that Amazon has decided black people can be honored, as long as they aren’t conservatives.

As Thomas once pointed out “that if a black man were barred from entering a library because of the color of his skin, that would universally and rightly be regarded as racist. But the left is fine with telling that same black man he can enter that library but he can never be allowed to agree with the content of certain books because of the color of his skin.”

As usual, leftism defies logic. And Amazon promotes their ignorance.
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Post by Riddick » 03-04-2021 11:57 PM

We may not have reached Peak Insanity yet, but we’re getting closer every day:

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Re: Dr. Seuss Is Canceled

Post by Doka » 03-05-2021 12:00 PM

Basically, any thing that teaches "Tolerance" is a Big Danger to the CommunistCrats. Interferes with their "Divide and Conquer" plan. They would lose control and the battle, if we all got along. :)
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Post by Malaria_Kidd II » 03-05-2021 12:25 PM

Doka wrote: 03-05-2021 12:00 PM Basically, any thing that teaches "Tolerance" is a Big Danger to the CommunistCrats. Interferes with their "Divide and Conquer" plan. They would lose control and the battle, if we all got along. :)
Yes!

Guess what you two? When the Civil War began the northern Democrats blamed the Dixiecrats! :twoconfus

Heard this week on the Mike Ghalleger Show. :shock: :shock:

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Re: Dr. Seuss Is Canceled

Post by Raggedyann » 03-06-2021 12:40 AM

Hey guess what you idiots? The Democrats had nothing to do with Dr. Seuss. The decision was made by the people who administer the Dr. Seuss estate. So there! Go look it up. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
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Re: Dr. Seuss Is Canceled

Post by Doka » 03-06-2021 10:55 AM

Oh Please! And the White House isn't white!

On Tuesday, the entity that oversees the estate of Theodor Seuss Geisel announced it would no longer publish six of Geisel’s books because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.”


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Post by Doka » 03-06-2021 11:29 AM

Geisel did cartoons, during WW2.

Here is Geisels, "Sin" shush! He was Pro American, Can't have that now, can we!

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hist32/Histor ... 0Seuss.htm
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Post by Raggedyann » 03-06-2021 01:00 PM

Doka wrote: 03-06-2021 10:55 AM Oh Please! And the White House isn't white!

On Tuesday, the entity that oversees the estate of Theodor Seuss Geisel announced it would no longer publish six of Geisel’s books because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.”


"Enitity"" is a loyal Democrap, "Enitity" is a good name for them.
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Re: Dr. Seuss Is Canceled

Post by Doka » 03-07-2021 02:19 PM

DUH?!
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Why Dr. Seuss Is Worth Defending

Post by Riddick » 03-09-2021 09:22 PM

Edited & Excepted from Robby Soave's Reason article:

Oh, the extreme places they'll go. After Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced it would no longer publish six Seuss books said to contain racially offensive imagery, those same books are now being pulled from some public libraries shelves in the US as well as Canada.

"We are part of the broader community who have identified these books as being harmful," Manny Figueiredo, director of education for an Ontario school board said in a statement. "The delivery of education must ensure that no child experiences harm from the resources that are shared."

Chicago's Public Library system agreed to remove the books in question pending an investigation. A Toronto Star journalist has issued an impassioned plea for even more libraries to take action—and for Dr. Seuss Enterprises to make amends for its historical failures.

What's happening to Dr. Seuss is the result of a very specific kind of prioritization: One decided upon not by readers or the public at large, but by activist educators peddling a false narrative about the beloved child author's books and characters.

This narrative is the result of a highly misleading 2019 report cited by Learning for Justice, an outgrowth of the Southern Poverty Law Center, as evidence it had misjudged The Sneetches, Seuss' story about a group of birds—some with stars on their bellies, some without—who eventually come to realize superficial physical differences don't matter at all.

They actually had it right the first time but the story's nonracism—the idea skin color should be overlooked—has lost popularity among progressive activists, and anti-racism—the idea skin color matters a great deal—is in vogue. The former is an egalitarian message at the heart of many Dr. Seuss books; the latter is a smokescreen for all sorts of policies that have very little to do with combating racism like abolishing standardized tests, or spending more time renaming schools than reopening them.

There is certainly no obligation to read or teach Dr. Seuss, nor should Seuss defenders feel some moral or practical imperative to gloss over his imperfections. He was a flawed genius—but a genius nonetheless, and a towering figure in the world of children's literature.

There is a disturbing trend among modern liberalism to seek to cast out all such flawed figures, which has the rest of us reasonably worried that no art or artist more than a few years old can possibly stand the test of time. (For another example of this, New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow recently accused Pepe Le Pew, the lovesick skunk from Looney Tunes, of perpetuating rape culture.)

There's not really a law or policy that could fix this problem, but there's good reason to regard the slippery slope in this case with suspicion. The report that led to the cancellation of the six books also stipulates that The Cat in the Hat embodies a "racist tradition" and that Horton Hears a Who! "reinforces themes of white supremacy."

I would not be surprised to find the entire Seuss canon under attack a few years from now. To quote the last lines of The Butter Battle Book, "Who's gonna drop it? Will you or will he?" (To which the narrator's grandpa replies: "Be patient. We'll see. We will see.")
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