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The ‘Cat in the Hat’ isn’t black – and that’s a problem
American Thinker ^ | 27 Feb, 2021 | Andrea Widburg

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:

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: bookburning; cancelculture; catinthehat; communism; culturalmarxism; drseuss; woke
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To: MtnClimber

What drugs are these idiots taking?


41 posted on 02/27/2021 8:29:46 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: MtnClimber

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!


42 posted on 02/27/2021 8:41:53 AM PST by buffyt (~Tyrelle.YF...Bonquisha.UF~)
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To: SpaceBar

‘Forced negrophilia at the end of a gun is going to have some very unfortunate, unforeseen consequences for those promoting it.’

such as...?


43 posted on 02/27/2021 8:43:03 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: MtnClimber

It never ends.


44 posted on 02/27/2021 9:05:20 AM PST by 1956tbyrd
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To: HighSierra5
Dr. Suess was forced on me as a small child in elementary school. I have always been an advanced reader so I found it a bunch of silly gibberish from day one. By third grade, I was reading books like "Call of The Wild" and "Huckleberry Finn".

I'm sure those books will come under fire from the rage mob soon.

45 posted on 02/27/2021 9:10:16 AM PST by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: bk1000

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.”


46 posted on 02/27/2021 9:46:53 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

He’s blacker than Obama


47 posted on 02/27/2021 10:34:38 AM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (Sarcasm. It's my only natural defense against stupidity)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

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


48 posted on 02/27/2021 10:36:58 AM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (Sarcasm. It's my only natural defense against stupidity)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

49 posted on 02/27/2021 10:38:37 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

What’s wrong with these bastards that they think EVERYTHING IN AMERICA SHOULD BE BLACK? Mental retardism from Covid?


50 posted on 02/27/2021 10:41:59 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

To me, it looks like a black cat in “white face.” Maybe it is racist. ROTFL.


51 posted on 02/27/2021 10:43:43 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: MtnClimber

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?


52 posted on 02/27/2021 11:13:41 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: MtnClimber

53 posted on 02/27/2021 1:40:56 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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