Posted on 03/29/2021 11:51:24 AM PDT by EdnaMode
A children's graphic novel from the immensely popular "Captain Underpants" series will no longer be found in library and book store shelves after the publisher deemed it to contain "passive racism."
The book in question is 2010's "The Adventures of Ook and Gluk" by Dav Pilkey, who has apologized for the work saying it "contains harmful racial stereotypes" and is "wrong and harmful to my Asian readers."
The book follows a pair of friends who travel from 500,001 B.C. to 2222, where they meet a martial arts instructor who teaches them kung fu and they learn principles found in Chinese philosophy. However, its publisher Scholastic has decided to remove the book from its websites, stop processing orders for it and is seeking a return on all inventory.
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everything is racist so screw-em...
never write anything wi anyone but White people in it ever again
then it’s back to under-representation bs... feh
We have a winner. Well played.
Yeah, my son loved those books when he was younger. They were pretty entertaining and summed up a young boy’s active imagination. However, Dave Pilkey is a woke libtard who had this coming.
Being white.
Huh? I've never heard that before. Everything I've seen said that Confucius came after Lao Tzu.
Jaysus make this stop. Next it will be “Everybody Poops”
Better “Captain Underpants” than “The Rainbow Fish”, don’t get me started on that one.
I remember my Mom reading Little Black Sambo to me as a kid. Butter good, always craved pancakes with butter and syrup after.
I guess Little Black Sambo is no longer acceptable. I loved that book, guess I’m rasis!
I don’t know “The Rainbow Fish” but can only assume it is a homo fish. Yes?
what idiot just apologizes for nothing?
/eyeroll
As a teacher, I despised the series on the basis of its stupidity and dumbing down of my students..... So, don’t care.
“The whole Tao thing, the teachings of Lao Tsu, who is also called Confucius by the actively racist British, are very interesting and important.”
Lao Tsu (老子）and Confucious （孔子） are not the same person. I don’t know where you got that idea.
“Huh? I’ve never heard that before. Everything I’ve seen said that Confucius came after Lao Tzu.”
Yeah. It was a weird and wrong comment.
I guess removing the first “G” from the title didn’t help.
The mod is usually 2 people pretending to be a mob of angry people.
I always say there are way more people out there every day protesting at abortion clinics across the country than there are in these leftist mobs.
I don’t see any fat chicks with weird glasses.
They just like throwing books in the fire.
White underpants bad.
Brown, streaked underpants good.
Scratch that. Clothes bad.
Naked savages good.
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