Posted on 02/27/2021 6:18:58 AM PST by MtnClimber
In Virginia, Dr. Seuss is in trouble, not for having once drawn naked ladies, but because his ridiculous characters are – wait for it -- racist.
Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, might be one of the most-read authors in the English (or, more accurately, the sort-of English) language. Since The Cat In The Hat was published in 1957, generations of American children have sounded out simple words while reading about the eponymous cat and the havoc he wreaked with Thing One and Thing Two on a boring, rainy day. However, the wokerati have now come for him, claiming that his weird, mostly zoomorphic creations are, in fact, racist.
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Loudoun County Schools, one of Virginia’s largest and most affluent school districts, is firing the man who helped generations of children learn how to read because, the district claims, his books have “racial undertones.” This decision comes about thanks to input from Learning for Justice, a national educators group with a decidedly left-wing orientation:
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What drugs are these idiots taking?
I have always thought that animals are smarter than humans since they do not care about color. Unless it is a bird using it for attracting mates... Dogs and Cats love us no matter what we look like! Thank goodness! BTW I am happy that GaGa got her dogs back. Those a$$turdz shot that man in the chest, he COULD HAVE DIED!
‘Forced negrophilia at the end of a gun is going to have some very unfortunate, unforeseen consequences for those promoting it.’
such as...?
It never ends.
I'm sure those books will come under fire from the rage mob soon.
White with black stripes...(mostly white face, white belly)
I would say the speech patterns are Caucasian...
I don’t know about feline genetics but I’m guessing that if you cross a black cat with a white cat you don’t get a pattern like that.
Seuss was a liberal...by 1960’s standards anyway.
The woke might want to read “The Sneetches.”
He’s blacker than Obama
https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Seven-Lady-Godivas-True-Facts-Concerning-Historys-Barest-Family-Dr-Seuss/184678901282?epid=155146&hash=item2affb86622:g:WaMAAOSwfwlgHe6K $17 -$20 bucks on ebay
What’s wrong with these bastards that they think EVERYTHING IN AMERICA SHOULD BE BLACK? Mental retardism from Covid?
To me, it looks like a black cat in “white face.” Maybe it is racist. ROTFL.
If Dr. Seuss is to be replaced can they point me to the oh so better works that were authored and illustrated 60 years ago?
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