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  • 'Captain Underpants' book pulled for 'passive racism,' author apologizes and vows to donate sales

    03/29/2021 11:51:24 AM PDT · by EdnaMode · 50 replies
    Fox News ^ | March 29, 2021 | Tyler McCarthy
    A children's graphic novel from the immensely popular "Captain Underpants" series will no longer be found in library and book store shelves after the publisher deemed it to contain "passive racism." The book in question is 2010's "The Adventures of Ook and Gluk" by Dav Pilkey, who has apologized for the work saying it "contains harmful racial stereotypes" and is "wrong and harmful to my Asian readers." The book follows a pair of friends who travel from 500,001 B.C. to 2222, where they meet a martial arts instructor who teaches them kung fu and they learn principles found in Chinese...