[ConservativeStatement]

"What did you do, go to college to get stupid?" Sonny Corleone.

[SandRat]

How big of a fight will be started when the Bernstein Bears are attacked like this?

[Personal Responsibility]

Racist looks for racism; finds it

When you put a dab of mint under your nose before going into surgery or an autopsy everything smells like mint. The bathroom, your lunch, the stench of the dead...all smells like mint.

Similarly, when a person puts on racist goggles they see everything through the lens of race...all looks racist.

[Deplorable American1776]

The cat in the hat is racist? Who knew a character in a children’s book was...

[jalisco555]

I read somewhere that at least half of all academic papers are read only by the journal editor and peer reviewer. And that half of all academic books have fewer than 10 readers.

[Steven Tyler]

They demonized the Tom Swift series of books for kids as being r@cist

[Wuli]

So if I actually like the wonderful soulful voice in African American gospel songs and I emulate that in music I make, I’m being “racist”.

No. Copying is the greatest form of flattery, not disdain.

Is Dr. Seuss asking the reader to find disdainful humor (as if laughing at, not with) his characters as not just funny, but stupid funny creatures? No.

I’m really no fan of Dr Seuss, but I’d forever be a bigger fan of Dr Seuss than the idiot “professor” that considers Seuss racist, knowingly or not knowingly.

[Kozak]

I love it. Theodor Seuss Geisel was a huge Lefty.
We are at that delicious point where the Revolution eats it’s own.

[Jonah Hex]

“People don’t see the blackface ancestry of the Cat for the same reason that they don’t see the blackface ancestry of Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, or the Scarecrow. These images are so embedded in the culture that their racialized origins have become invisible,” Nel writes in his book “Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books.”

(sigh)

[ConservaTeen]

Are the Who racist? Or is Thing 1 or Thing 2 racist? Maybe the Grinch is racist to the Who? My gosh, is the Red Fish racist towards the Blue Fish. Maybe Dr Seuss was Islamophobic because of ‘Green Eggs and HAM’. I’m confused...