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What caused the outrage that got a Dr Zuess book pulled. Book If I ran the zoo.
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and yet Origin of the Species is still being lifted up as a credible book

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I think that this is a typical case of damned if you do (publish the book), damned if you don't.

Naomi Level 8 Mar 8, 2021

I just keep thinking...this book was published in 1950...so it took 71 years (give or take) for us to realize how "problematic" they were?

I don't recall anyone talking Dr. Seuss during the Watts Riots, or the Civil Rights Movement, the Camden Riots, the Crown Heights Riots, the LA Riots, and so on and so on and so on. Yet now, NOW, we have the "racial awareness" to declare that these books are offensive and are setting us back in our quest for racial equity.

Or maybe, people are just completely full of !@#$.

@Alysandir I read somewhere that Dr. Seuss cleverly incorporated his political views in his children's books, which he apparently knew were daring and controversial.
I'm thinking of Mary Whitehouse. I watched a documentary about her a long time ago. She was a British teacher and also a conservative activist. She strongly criticised TV for liberalising society by generating bad language, showing sex scenes, etc. She was a unique public personality, and apparently in those days (1960s? 1970s?), she wasn't accused of undermining free speech. It was quite opposite - she was regarded as a guardian of morals. In other words, regardless of how times may have changed, ethics, or the business of moral philosophy has always been going on.
Anyway, many people may not realise that Dr Seuss Enterprises, the publisher of his books, was founded by his family. I'm thinking that if I was, say, his granddaughter and some of his books were perceived controversial in the modern social, ethical context, I might choose not to publish those books not because I agree that the books are politically incorrect but because I want to protect my grandfather's good name. But then, I would probably be accused of not publishing the books by those who champion free speech. Hence, damned if I do, damned if I don't.

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I think there was a drawing of some natives boiling up an Englishman in a giant pot over a big campfire. Whites would take offense if it had been a bunch of cartoon white guys boiling or lynching some African guy in a children's book.

I'm fairly sure it was whites who got upset about every single thing that these six books were "canceled" over. After all, this whole thing started in Loudon County, Virginia, which just so happens to be the richest county in the entire country, by per capita income.

No, I don't think it was poverty-level black people up in arms over this...

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The message has been sent - "If I can cancel the great Dr Suess, then who do you think you are to stand against the woke?" The content had nothing to do with the canceling.

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I don't see anything wrong with it. It's an imaginary bird in an imaginary island.

@Rosary_Trace And yet these Leftists want non-Whites to be proud of their culture (which would include their traditional garb, etc.). Leftists are contradicting themselves.

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