Watching the movie American Beauty, I realized white supremacists can collect artifacts that they must keep secret, except during the Trump years when it was OK to come out of hiding.
The family of Theodor Seuss Geisel, who make a lot of money from publishing his books, decided pull 6 racist titles: “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street”, “If I Ran the Zoo” “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!,” and “The Cat’s Quizzer."
I have read Go Dog Go so many times now my eyes bleed. My mother said she read The Sleep Book more times than she would have cared to. Clearly the non-racist books are still classics. What people are objecting to is the family deciding not to publish 6 books that most people don't read.
I think I read the first one and wondered at one of the photos.
Now I'm imagining white supremacist rushing out to buy the book.
Of course the death cult lying red herrings party has House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy reading Green Eggs and Ham as a faux protest against "cancelation culture". He doesn't read any of the ones that the family has decided to withdraw because of racist images.
Anyone notice? Not those who lap this kind of publicity stunt up.
The family of Mr. Geisel will still make their millions.
Ask Colin Kaepernick about cancel culture, they're using it wrong, no wait, they just flip the script, that is what those lying liars do. OK, so business as usual.
Of course Ross Douthat says, "From the idealistic liberalism of my high school English teachers, I learned that to try to get rid of offensive literature is the great sin of easily triggered rubes. A special horror at banning books, which usually meant removing them from the curriculum in some rural school district, pervaded our libraries and classrooms. And a particular shame seemed to throb in my teachers’ breasts when they admitted that some books were even targeted — “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” say — for misguided progressive reasons."
Once again, nobody banning, the family who owns the books, has decided not to continue to publish 6 racist books. Not the same thing as banning.
It's wonderful that the NY Times gives fair time to Republican lies.
Here is a smart article from Slate
This article from the Guardian is about how many classics have edited out racism.
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