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6 Dr. Seuss books won’t be published for racist images
The Associated Press ^ | March 2, 2021 | By MARK PRATT

Posted on 03/02/2021 4:34:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: NobleFree

I think the critics may have a problem...


41 posted on 03/02/2021 6:05:17 AM PST by Irenic
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To: HighSierra5

Geisel would have been the first to support this.


42 posted on 03/02/2021 6:08:04 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

One book, two books, banned book, burned book.


43 posted on 03/02/2021 6:16:10 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: ConservaTexan
Ironically, though the charges of racism in his books are silly, this is inexcusable:

He's German. How is this any more sensible than interning Germans?

44 posted on 03/02/2021 6:18:54 AM PST by dangus
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To: ConservaTexan
At the same time, this is what he thought of America First, a group supported by JFK, Gerald Ford, any several patriotic senators:
(This was published in July, 1941 and has no relation to a tiny party from 1944 which was probably a black-flag op against Republicans. The group he attacks here supported WWII after Pearl Harbor.)
45 posted on 03/02/2021 6:23:40 AM PST by dangus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Looking for experts amongst educators is not very broadminded.

They’ll be coming for Peanuts soon too. Charles Schultz had a character in there named Franklin. I don’t remember much about Franklin, but I am sure the idiots on the left will find something to condemn there.


46 posted on 03/02/2021 6:25:19 AM PST by Gumdrop
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To: dangus
You can see here where Dr. Seuss' true loyalties were during the war, he loved him some Uncle Joe


47 posted on 03/02/2021 6:29:21 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I take that cartoon as being critical of US Aid to Russia.


48 posted on 03/02/2021 6:39:42 AM PST by dangus
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To: dangus

I take it as being critical of fighting Bolshevism.


49 posted on 03/02/2021 6:41:57 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: HighSierra5
I never liked Dr Seuss books when I was a kid. Their weird.

No wonder you couldn't get past Seuss.

50 posted on 03/02/2021 6:51:12 AM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: gdc61

It was a subtle dig on the poster saying “he never liked Dr. Seuss as a kid”, then proceeding to commit a grammatical error in using “their weird” instead of “they’re weird”, which says perhaps he *should* have read more Dr. Seuss as a kid.


51 posted on 03/02/2021 7:00:28 AM PST by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: NobleFree

Because they have been conditioned to think this way, whenever Leftists/Communists/Democrats hear the word “monkey” used in the same sentence with “Africa” or “black” or the name of any “black” person they think it’s racist when drawing any correlation between those words is itself the height of racist thinking.


52 posted on 03/02/2021 7:05:44 AM PST by glennaro ("Until it's safe" means "never" (Dennis Prager))
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
When I started school it was the "Dick, Jane and Sally" readers.

My mother was an elementary school teacher and had a collection of those books, which I inherited. She said plenty of kids learned to read from those books just fine - the modern "readers" didn't do the job.

Maybe I should put them in a bank vault, along with my vintage Dr. Suess books that I had as a child - before the Kommissars come after them for being racist and sexist (no trans characters).

53 posted on 03/02/2021 7:19:14 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: The Chid

The book burners will come for Kipling eventually.


54 posted on 03/02/2021 7:23:09 AM PST by katie didit
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To: Flick Lives

Long night leading to a rough morning. I see irony their. LOL

As a child I never looked at Dr. S as educational, which most probably was the desired outcome. A direct effect for me was introduction to poetry ....some day my kids will find my stash and I’ll be famous. hopefully no one will point out the bad spelling. LOL


55 posted on 03/02/2021 7:24:16 AM PST by gdc61 (LOL not.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Uh Oh!


56 posted on 03/02/2021 7:25:38 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Flick Lives

...also...“he never liked Dr. Seuss as a kid”... that’s just not normal!


57 posted on 03/02/2021 7:26:35 AM PST by gdc61 (LOL not.)
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To: dangus

Totally inexcusable, dishonabru, even...

:P

But yeah, perhaps we should have enlisted them all and sent them to Europe instead.


58 posted on 03/02/2021 7:27:07 AM PST by Kommodor (Solzhenitsyn was an optimist...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
>>In 2017, a school librarian in Cambridge, Massachusetts, criticized a gift of 10 Seuss books from first lady Melania Trump, saying many of his works were “steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes.”

Trump Derangement Syndrome

59 posted on 03/02/2021 7:29:02 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They should ban THE LORAX. Too ‘woke’ for me. All about mankind destroying the environment.


60 posted on 03/02/2021 7:29:52 AM PST by calico_thompson (Vanity sarcasm)
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