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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Dr. Seuss was a big lefty, so it’s ironic.
>>“...took feedback from our audiences including teachers, academics and specialists in the field as part of our review process.”
These same “experts” promote children’s books with boys who dress as princesses, heather’s two mommies, and butch men in makeup with sex criminal histories reading “drag queen story hour”.
I do not like these leftist scum
I will not live below their thumb.
I will not call a she a he
I will not sit down when I pee.
They call my president a loon
And kill a baby in the womb.
I find their skulls an empty shell
They’ll spend eternity in Hell.
I do not like these leftist scum
I will not live below their thumb.
The COMMUNISM continues
And Dr. Seuss was a Leftist but he wasn’t far enough Left for them.
Calling Dr. Seuss a racist is a pretty stupid way of preserving his legacy.
“took feedback from our audiences including teachers, academics and specialists in the field as part of our review process.”
And the % of your audience that falls into those categories vs. the % that falls under the category of parents/relatives of children is...?
Just wait till they get to Are you my Mom?
Leftism is a mental disorder.
WOW! Wonder what they would do with the short stories of John Russell who wrote for Collier’s years ago. His book THE LOST GOD and Other Short Stories are GREAT!
Also on the purge list is Claude Brown’s 1965 autobiography Manchild in the Promised Land, a chronicle of the author’s coming-of-age amidst poverty and violence in Harlem during the 40s/50s.
Published at the height of the civil rights movement, it was once celebrated by critics for its realism. but today is denounced for its scathing indictment of Black culture.
I still remember the butchering of movie films shown on TV from the 1950s-1960s to remove “violence” in the anti-gun madness after Bobby Kennedy was murdered.
Even today some of the old films are released with scenes missing I still remember seeing.
Wonder what they would do with the Doctor Doolittle stories and illustrations.
We know what you're up to, pal
You're trying to shatter our morale
You're trying to stir up discontent
And seize the reins of government!
You're trying to throw sand in our eyes
You're trying to kill free enterprise
And raise the cost of figs and dates
And wreck our compound interest rates!
And shut our schools and steal our jewels
And even change our football rules
Take away our garden tools
And lock us up in vestibules!
But fortunately, we're no fools...
Priceless.
The only thing racist about a Dr. Seuss it perhaps the reader.
O.M.G. THAT’S AWESOME!!!!
“It’s called “the cloud” so you can’t see what they are doing....”
I really like your post.
Very good!
One fish, two fish,
Red fish, blue fish.
Hey, that’s political
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