Posted on 03/02/2021 4:34:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
BOSTON - Six Dr. Seuss books — including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” — will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday.
“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement that coincided with the late author and illustrator’s birthday.
“Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ catalog represents and supports all communities and families,” it said.
The other books affected are “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!,” and “The Cat’s Quizzer.”
The decision to cease publication and sales of the books was made last year after months of discussion, the company told AP.
“Dr. Seuss Enterprises listened and took feedback from our audiences including teachers, academics and specialists in the field as part of our review process. We then worked with a panel of experts, including educators, to review our catalog of titles,” it said.
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Tempest in a Teapot. imho
Only part of our commitment and our broader plan.
Got it comrades
That $11,000 book was sold on the ABE books web site two or three years ago.
Has it gone up it value? Possibly....because it was a First edition, First printing, in excellent condition, and maybe because of these cancel culture crazies.
“We must execute not only the guilty. Execution of the innocent will impress the masses even more.”
Nikolai Krylenko, commissar for justice - Russian Revolution
Yup. Led my old hippie "activists" and their Prozac'd and Adderalled kids and grandkids, and cheered on by the media.
BRAVO!
I hear they are going after Babar the elephant next for being too white.
I’m thinking a dose of Thidwick The Big-Hearted Moose would send the No Borders crowd shrieking for a banning.
Keep the Sneeches. That one is perfectly anti-racist, and shows how evil race-baiters profit from both sides.
This is absolutely nuts, first Mr. Potato Head, now Dr. Seuss? Who’s going to be cancelled next, Barney?
This woke stuff has really jumped the shark.
they’re **
The left is nothing but whiners.
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they are more than whiners they are destroyers of everything they control and destructors of all society for over 150 years. See COMMUNISM.
They want to replace Dr Seuss with what? Some half literate black “poet” that blabbers about evil whitey?
Is that more tolerate to these f**gots on the left? All white elites who are pushing this btw
They really just want to erase all western culture in every venue. Period.
Yup. Led my old hippie “activists” and their Prozac’d and Adderalled kids and grandkids, and cheered on by the media.
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Boy did you hit the nail on the head with that comment.
Sad state of affairs.
You are right, and it’s very sick indeed. I pray for our youth and young families today. Things are hard enough.
Apparently in either the Thanksgiving or Christmas show the cartoonists had several characters on one side of the dinner table and Franklin by himself on the other side (which happened to be left). So Franklin was "isolated and segregated"; a white supremacy conspiracy in the minds of the addled.
Atticus - "I hear they are going after Babar the elephant next for being too white."
They're going after Babar for having a colonist agenda, going back to "civilize" the other animals back in his homeland. Seriously.
These idiots who don't have real problems have even bitched about the Muppets. Darn shame we can't harvest a sense of humor (and whimsy) from those who've passed like we do organs. The snowflakes desperately need it.
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