Checking Dr. Seuss’s bio, I see that he was liberal/left-wing. The kind that is marginalized today.
This stupid librarian doesn’t know the difference between a “cliche” book and a classic. That, from a librarian! The dumbing down continues.
The article I looked at also called Seuss a liberal Democrat. But it mentioned he was anti-fascist and racist as well. Oh, those liberal Democrats.
‘In the ads (from the collection of the library of the University of California, San Diego), black people are presented as savages, living in the tropics, dressed in grass skirts. Arabs are portrayed as camel-riding nomads or sultans.
In his political cartoons (from the collection of the Springfield Library and Museums Association), Seuss inveighed against the Japanese during World War II; he drew them buck-toothed and squint-eyed.
The images are depressing because they reveal that one of America’s most original artist-authors had the same tired views of non-whites that his contemporaries did. During the war,Seuss defended his anti-Japanese view, according to his biographer Richard H. Minear:
“... right now, when the Japs are planting their hatchets in our skulls, it seems like a hell of a time for us to smile and warble: “Brothers!” It is a rather flabby battle cry. If we want to win, we’ve got to kill Japs, whether it depresses John Haynes Holmes or not. We can get palsy-walsy afterward with those that are left.”’
http://www.businessinsider.com/before-dr-seuss-was-famous-he-drew-these-sad-racist-ads-2012-3