How can this Dr. Seuss drawing be "racist," when it looks exactly like real life Africans? If progressives want "diversity," how can they be against this drawing?
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Twitter ^
| December 28, 2023 | Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH
How can this Dr. Seuss drawing be "racist," when it looks exactly like real life Africans? If progressives want "diversity," how can they be against this drawing?
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Dr. Seuss’ ‘How the Grinch stole Christmas!’ gets a sequel
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The Associated Press ^
| February 23, 2023 | By MARK PRATT
BOSTON (AP) — Dr. Seuss fans might find their hearts growing three sizes this coming holiday season with the release of a sequel to the 1957 classic children’s book “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” The new book picks up one year after the original, and like the first, teaches a valuable lesson
about the true spirit of the holiday. In the sequel, the Grinch wants to show how much he loves the holiday by winning Who-ville’s Christmas Crown with the most spectacular Christmas tree ever seen, according to Dr. Seuss Enterprises. But when his plan goes awry, the Grinch turns...
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Olentangy students, parents protest recent halting of Dr. Seuss reading on NPR podcast
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Columbus Dispatch ^
| January 13, 2023 | Meghan Henry
Seventh grader Thomas Bornman read Dr. Seuss’ “The Sneetches” to roughly a dozen students and parents Monday in front of Olentangy Local School’s administrative building — more than a week after a podcast aired where a communications official stopped a teacher from finishing the book in class. “It’s
important to send the school district a message that it’s OK for students to ask questions and talk about race,” said the 14-year-old Olentangy Hyatts Middle School student. The read-in was part of a peaceful protest by a group of concerned parents that was organized Monday in response to Amanda Beeman, the...
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‘Seuss-Picious’ Arizona Driver Cited for Carpooling With Inflatable Grinch
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New York Post ^
| December 14, 2022 | Patrick Reilly
SNIP An officer from the Arizona Department of Public Safety noticed a driver speeding in the high occupancy vehicle lane on Interstate 10 Tuesday with a “Seusspicious-looking” green rider in the passenger seat, the department said. Sure
enough, when the driver was stopped, the state trooper determined that “the grumpy green guy was, in fact, an inflatable Grinch,” Arizona DPS tweeted. SNIP The department shared a photo of the blow-up Grinch, waving with his right arm with a white and red scarf around his neck beside the blurred-out driver.
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Teacher Mocks Christians with Dr. Seuss Parody at School Board Meeting for Opposing Pornographic, CRT Books
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Christian News ^
| 12/24/21 | editor
Parents in the Austin, Texas, area expressed outrage after a technology teacher read a Dr. Seuss-style poem mocking “evangelicals” and parents who have expressed concerns about books they call pornographic. Krista
Tyler, instructional technology specialist at Grisham Middle School in the Round Rock Independent School District (ISD) read the poem at the Leander ISD school board meeting Dec. 16. “Everyone in Leander liked reading a lot/ but some evangelicals in Leader did not,” Tyler begins. “These kooks hated reading, the whole reading season./ Please don’t ask why, no one quite knows the reason./ It could be perhaps critical thinking causes...
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Parents outraged after teacher mocks 'bigots,' 'evangelicals' in Dr. Seuss-style poem at school board meeting
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Fox News ^
| 12/24/21 | Tyler O’Neil
Parents in the Austin, Texas, area expressed outrage after a technology teacher read a Dr. Seuss-style poem mocking "evangelicals" and parents who have expressed concerns about books they call pornographic. Krista
Tyler, instructional technology specialist at Grisham Middle School in the Round Rock Independent School District (ISD) read the poem at the Leander ISD school board meeting Dec. 16. "Everyone in Leander liked reading a lot/ but some evangelicals in Leader did not," Tyler begins. "These kooks hated reading, the whole reading season./ Please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason./ It could be perhaps critical thinking causes...
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Dr. Seuss and the Culture Wars
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The Wall Street Journal ^
| 3/20/2021 | N/A
Five of the top ten Hard cover fiction books for the week ended March 13th were by Dr. Seuss
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In Our House, Dr. Seuss Was Contraband: My mother went to enormous lengths to protect her family from negative stereotypes of Black people.
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The Atlantic ^
| 3/6/2021 | Michael Harriot
My mother had a ban on pork, and I thought she was mad that I broke it. One
afternoon four decades ago, when I was about 8, I walked into my family’s house after playing outside and saw my mother sitting in the yellow recliner with a book in her lap. She had found the copy of Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham. I knew that I was in trouble, because normally no one sat in the canary-colored La-Z-Boy, a throne reserved for my grandmother. Another member of the family occupying it automatically meant that something very serious had happened....
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Don’t get trapped arguing whether Dr. Seuss is racist.
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https://karenkataline.com ^
| March 14, 2021 | Karen Kataline
A poem defending Dr. Seuss was posted on Facebook recently. I
expect it to be banned soon, so I’ll re-post it here: ======================================== Alas they’ve come for Dr. SEUSS, they wish to hang him with a noose. They claim his tales were racist bent, they judged him fast, missed what he meant. But if we look inside his tales, you’ll find the balance of the scales. Remember when Horton heard a Who, and we heard the wisdom of the Lorax too. The lesson behind Green Eggs and Ham, that changed the mind of Sam I am. Remember too the rotten...
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Bill Maher says the people who actually live in China don’t care about Dr. Seuss’s “racist” cartoon of a Chinese man holding chopsticks, because they’re too busy learning math and building skyscrapers [includes some profanity]
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wordpress ^
| March 14, 2021 | Dan from Squirrel Hill
Bill Maher says the people who actually live in China don’t care about Dr. Seuss’s “racist” cartoon of a Chinese man holding chopsticks, because they’re too busy learning math and building skyscrapershttps://www.youtube.com/watch
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Ted Cruz has been selling signed copies of the Dr. Seuss book 'Green Eggs and Ham,' and raised $125,000 in 24 hours
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Business Insider via msn ^
| 13 Mar 2021 | kshalvey@businessinsider.com (Kevin Shalvey)
A donation site run by Ted Cruz was raising money by selling copies of "Green Eggs and Ham," which were signed by the senator. "Lefties
are losing their minds that I'm signing & sending copies of Green Eggs and Ham to anyone who donates $60 or more," the Texas senator said on Twitter late Friday. "We've raised $125k in just 24 hours!"
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Why canceling Dr. Seuss is a threat to all Evangelical Christians
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Christian Post ^
| 03/10/2021 | Jim Denison
Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–'91) wrote and illustrated more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. By the time of his death, his books had sold more than 600 million copies and had been translated into more than 20 languages. Geisel
was a graduate of Dartmouth with graduate studies at Oxford. His work received two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. For decades, Read Across America Day has celebrated his birthday while encouraging children to read. Like millions of others, I read Dr. Seuss’ books as a child and then read them to...
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Why Dr. Seuss Had to Go
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Townhall.com ^
| March 10, 2021 | Ben Shapiro
This week, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced it would stop the sale and distribution of six classic volumes from the great children's author. Those
volumes, said the company, violate its commitment to "messages of hope, inspiration, inclusion, and friendship." The books include portrayals of people "in ways that are hurtful and wrong." Society has long held that activity that damages others ought to be curbed. John Stuart Mill posited the so-called harm principle -- the belief that activity that harms someone ought to be condemned or even barred -- in the mid-19th century. But Mill refused to conflate harm and offense:...
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In New Dr. Seuss Book, Cat In The Hat Gives Kids Puberty Blockers While Their Mother Isn’t Home
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The Babylon Bee ^
| March 5, 2021 | The Babylon Bee
NEW YORK, NY—Things have changed quite a bit in the world of Dr. Seuss, as six of his works have been pulled from publication, banned from sale on eBay, and eliminated from people’s minds using lobotomies to help fight the threat of racism. To
get with the times, though, a new Dr. Seuss book has been released, called The Cat in the Hat (He/Him). “In this new book, using reworked art from Dr. Seuss,” said a letter from Dr. Seuss’s estate, “the Cat in the Hat once again finds the two children home alone and bored. This time he diagnoses...
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‘Anti-Racist’ Organization Says It Can No Longer Use Dr. Seuss Books To Teach Tolerance Because They Don’t Address Structural Racism
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Daily Wire ^
| 3/7/21 | Emily Zanotti
The “anti-racist” organization, Learning for Justice (formerly known as Teaching Tolerance), says it can no longer use a Dr. Seuss book, that was a key part of their “anti-racism” curriculum to teach acceptance to children after last week’s Dr. Seuss “cancellation” drama. Learning
for Justice used to use the Dr. Seuss book, “The Sneetches,” to teach children how to overcome visible differences to forge lasting friendships. In the book, there are two types of “Sneetches” — giant, yellow, bird-like creatures with barrel bellies — one with plain bellies and one with star-shaped marks on their bellies. The two groups begin...
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EBay Scraps Dr. Seuss—But Proudly Markets Che Guevara
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Townhall.com ^
| March 6, 2021 | Humberto Fontova,
“EBay scraps ‘canceled’ Dr. Seuss books from site—eBay is barring users from reselling the six Dr. Seuss books that will no longer be printed due to their “racist” imagery…eBay is currently sweeping our marketplace to remove these items,” an eBay spokeswoman told the WSJ,” the New York Post reported this week.The Dr.
Seuss books violate eBay’s "offensive material policy," you see. "Listings that promote or glorify hatred, violence, or discrimination aren't allowed," eBay’s automated email explains.Now feast your eyes on these eBay products, a total of 5400 items promoting Che Guevara, whose lifelong obsession was the destruction of the nation...
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EBay Won't Let You Sell Canceled Dr. Seuss Books, But Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Is Okay
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PJ Media ^
| 03/05/2021 | Matt Margolis
While sales of most Dr. Seuss books have gone through the roof, if you want a copy of one of the six Suess books that have, after all these years, been deemed racist, you won’t be able to buy them cheap. While
you can still get a “collectible” edition of the recently canceled Dr. Seuss book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, you’ll have to shell out at least $300 for it through a third-party vendor on Amazon.But if you happen to have copies of any of the six Seuss books that have been given the...
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The Left’s New Moral Framework Includes Zero Forgiveness, Even For Dr. Seuss
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The Federalist ^
| March 5, 2021 | Nathanial Blake
Instead of a populace with a developed understanding of sin, and a prudent sense of what to punish and what to tolerate, we now have personal and social moral instability.Canceling Dr. Seuss is what a moral panic looks like. Unlike
the stereotypical moral panic, in which ill-educated yokels whip themselves up into a frenzy of denunciation, today those with power and influence — journalists, educators, and suchlike — lead the way. At moral panics finding more and more evil to frantically purge, backwoods Baptists have nothing on The New York Times newsroom and students at elite universities. Canceling Harry Potter...
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L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti on Dr. Seuss: ‘There Is No Place for Racist Imagery
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Breitbart ^
| 03/04/2021 | Joel B Pollak
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said that “there is no place for racist imagery” when asked to respond to the ongoing controversy about Dr. Seuss, whom the city has honored in the past. The
company that handles Dr. Seuss’s books withdrew six of his books from publication this week over concerns about early caricatures, and the left has been critical of Dr. Seuss for preaching racial tolerance without concern for “structural power imbalances.”
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Triggered by Dr. Seuss and 'The Muppet Show'
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Townhall.com ^
| March 5, 2021 | Tim Graham
The hottest theme in liberal punditry is mocking conservatives for their objections to Woke Culture's long march through American entertainment conglomerates. It's
not "real news." NBC late-night "comedian" Seth Meyers denounced the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, claiming, "(T)he only truly unifying thing at CPAC, the beating heart of modern conservatism, were the dumb, invented culture-war grievances, as evidenced by their complaints about total nonsense, like the Muppets and Mr. Potato Head." First, let's not accept Seth Meyers as a champion of nuance. Last May, he compared then-President Donald Trump and former President George W. Bush to serial killers...
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