Posted on 03/02/2019 5:38:31 AM PST by TigerClaws
As Dr. Seuss’ birthday approaches on March 2, a new study argues that many of the author’s classic children’s books are racist and problematic — and only two percent of his characters represent people of color.
“[This study reveals] how racism spans across the entire Seuss collection, while debunking myths about how books like Horton Hears a Who! and The Sneetches can be used to promote tolerance, anti-bias, or anti-racism,” Katie Ishizuka and Ramón Stephens write in their February 2019 report, “The Cat is Out of the Bag: Orientalism, AntiBlackness, and White Supremacy in Dr. Seuss’ s Children’s Books,” as part of St. Catherine University’s Research on Diversity in Youth Literature.
They continue: “Findings from this study promote awareness of the racist narratives and images in Dr. Seuss’ children’s books and implications to the formation and reinforcement of racial biases in children.”
(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...
Socialism says that green and blue are not colors, and only a racist wearing a hood and carrying a noose would say those were colors.
Every left-winger has become the child-catcher from chittychittybangbang, smelling racism in everything, under the floorboards, in the woodwork. These are hysterical times.
“Findings from this study promote awareness of the racist narratives and images’
you want to know how how the culture evolves going forward, just pay attention to television commercials; complete dominance of females and minority males (homosexual and otherwise)...the endgame is blatantly unfolding in clear sight...
My daughter’s enjoyed my phonetic reading of the classic, Little Black Sambo. I’m not sure that each of them will encourage me to do the same with their children.
_________ is racist and problematic.
Fill in that blank with any old damn thing and you’ll get vigorous nods of agreement from the PC crowd. Ford trucks, the number five, the moon. It doesn’t matter.
But wait. I guess there are a few exceptions. You wouldn’t be allowed to put “The Koran” in that blank, for example.
PUH-LEEZE!!
Every trend goes too far, eventually. and every “normal” person I know is totally FED UP with this endlessly evolving super-hyper-sensitivity to racism — especially where none is apparent, UNLESS one relentlessly picks the scab.
Ultimate burn-out is the unavoidable ultimate point.
The Public WAS tolerant and listening open-mindedly up toa point; but we’re all thoroughly WORN OUT on this BullKrappe now, and it is now worse than useless to “their” cause.
Nothing can be extrapolated endlessly: all “curves” eventually break and take another direction, and this B.K. is as boring and over-stretched now as pet rocks and CB radio.
Like, so YESterday, Man...
Rule of life 101: when everything is racist, NOTHING is racist.
His books hardly represent people at all.
Jesus needs to come back ASAP!!!!!
The world deserves to be left to it’s own devices and take the consequences.
you want to know how how the culture evolves going forward, just pay attention to television commercials; complete dominance of females and minority males (homosexual and otherwise)...the endgame is blatantly unfolding in clear sight...”
Funny, your post was something I was just contemplating yesterday. Was wondering whether “commercials” were one of the driving forces or simply a reflection of the changing cultural morality.
But as you stated, it most definitely obvious and blatant.
One aside, see how many mixed race couples are popping up, then notice how many are white women and black men as opposed to the other way around. It’s 10-1 and the reason being is that blacks.....especially black men are vehemently oppugnant to the notion one of their sisters shacking up with a white man.
Hint: if one must obtain a Ph.D. in the art of reading racism into everything in order to reveal how the classic Dr. Seuss books are racist... then the books are not racist.
Notice how liberal trash web sites like People do not have comment sections.
“Katie Ishizuka and Ramón Stephens” -— They are expressing anti-White bigotry in labeling the books “racist.”
Little black sambo was an Indian
I have a very early edition
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I never liked those books. They were weird and stupid.
Oh for crying out loud! Will these fascists leave nothing untouched? They have far too much time on their hands.
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