Posted on 09/30/2017 6:19:33 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Tonight I made a rare Friday appearance with Tucker Carlson on Fox News. The subject was a Massachusetts school librarian's decision to reject a gift of children's books from Melania Trump because Dr Seuss is "racist propaganda":
According to Steyn, the letter that Massachusetts librarian Phipps Soeiro wrote was "incredibly moronic" and "part of the dumbing down of American society." After disputing one of Serio's complaints, Steyn lamented that "we are making ourselves a society too stupid to survive."
Steyn specifically took issue with Soeiro's complaint that the main character in "The Cat in the Hat" had a bowtie intended to evoke imagery from racist, minstrel shows. In response, Steyn ran through a list of cartoon characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Porky Pig, who wore bowties. "Cartoon characters wear bowties. That's nothing to do with minstrel shows," Steyn argued.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Let’s apply Rules 5 and 13
Rule 5 “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
Rule 13 Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
I’m happy to play by Alinksy’s rules.
Too late I went it looked it up. There are some sick folks out there.
Re: “Theodore Geisel, the author of the Dr. Seuss books, was a leftist, . .”
I’m not so sure. Would a leftist write, “a person’s a person no matter how small” (from Horton Hears a Who)?
Re: “Theodore Geisel, the author of the Dr. Seuss books, was a leftist, . .”
I’m not so sure. Would a leftist write, “a person’s a person no matter how small” (from Horton Hears a Who)?
Sorry for the double post
Sexy ginger?! Is that British slang?
The reality is that Suess was a liberal Democrat and spoke out against racism in the forties...
Ginger = Redhead. On both sides of the pond, or so I thought.
Wow! That gender queer is one confused mental health case!
Geisel was a liberal Democrat and a supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. His early political cartoons show a passionate opposition to fascism, and he urged action against it both before and after the United States entered World War II. His cartoons portrayed the fear of communism as overstated, finding greater threats in the House Un-American Activities Committee and those who threatened to cut the US “life line” to Stalin and the USSR, whom he once depicted as a porter carrying “our war load”.
Geisel supported the Japanese American internment during World War II. His treatment of the Japanese and of Japanese Americans (between whom he often failed to differentiate) has struck many readers as a moral blind spot.
He worked on transmissions? I thought you said he was a doc.
I think the famous Donna Brazile once attacked Tucker on the air as “a white boy in a bow tie” - of course she wasn’t removed from her job immediately because of the racist slur - it happened on CNN....
Don’t worry, if it’s worth posting, it’s worth posting twice.
“Would a leftist write, “a person’s a person no matter how small” (from Horton Hears a Who)?”
If he were propagandizing for “children’s rights,” he would.
Oh, so that’s why they called her Ginger on Gilligan’s Island!
I bet it’s because of the story (can’t remember the name) where the people who didn’t have stars on them felt inferior to the ones that did, so a machine was invented to put stars on them, and eventually they came to realize that the star meant bupkis. Can’t have the poor little prisoners taught that we are all equal and free no matter what our skin looks like, can we? The whole victimhood industry would go poof overnight.
Why is he referring to himself in third person?
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