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To: Red Badger
Dr. Seuss was "woke" when woke wasn't cool.


2 posted on 03/15/2021 8:03:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

That was then,
This is now,
If you’re white,
They’ll have a cow,
Social Justice they do cry,
But it’s slavery by and by,
Color blind is not the goal,
Look at skin and not the soul,
If you think this poem stinks,
Just try to come up with a rhyme for Critical Race Theory ...

... I mean, seriously, just try. No wonder these goobers hate Seuss ...


8 posted on 03/15/2021 8:16:02 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: dfwgator

I don’t know how much you or others here know about the early Dr. Suess, but he was in advertising. Possibly the first thing that put him on the national radar (or would have, if radar had been invented yet) was an enormously succesful campaign for the “Flit” gun, which sprayed insecticide. It’s what Uncle Sam is holding in the cartoon.

The tag line was “Quick, Henry, the Flit”.

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/05/dr-seuss-once-created-a-nationally-famous-slogan-quick-henry-the-flit-for-standard-oil/

There was even a Marx Brothers movie where a Flit gun appeared.


10 posted on 03/15/2021 8:29:54 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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