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skermac
03/02/21 5:22:38 PM
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Biden erases Dr. Seuss from 'Read Across America' proclamation as progressives seek to cancel beloved author

totally ridiculous imo

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viewmaster_pi
03/02/21 5:31:45 PM
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dr. sus

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RaulJenkins
03/02/21 5:32:29 PM
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i'd look up the context of the situation but i'm just so tired of trying to keep up

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Cuticrusader09
03/02/21 5:46:35 PM
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Its not like he was a great guy, he cheated on his wife that was sick. She committed suicide.
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RadiantJoyrock
03/02/21 5:47:49 PM
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RaulJenkins posted...
i'd look up the context of the situation but i'm just so tired of trying to keep up
Offensive books have been removed from publication as they weren't big sellers anyways, all of his top sellers remain. People try and act like Seuss wasn't a piece of shit.
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AlisLandale
03/02/21 5:48:51 PM
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Couldnt give less of a shit tbh.

You can walk into any bookstore or library and see those books everywhere. Not gonna shed tears because they were dropped from whatever the hell read across America is.

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Funkydog
03/02/21 5:51:27 PM
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It's not being cancelled though?

The publisher is simply not releasing certain books that contain offensive material anymore.

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Stalolin
03/02/21 5:51:58 PM
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Im so tired.

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AmericaTheBrave
03/02/21 5:52:59 PM
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Funkydog posted...
The publisher is simply not releasing certain books that contain offensive material anymore.

Certain books that were never that popular or widely read in the first place*

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g980
03/02/21 5:54:35 PM
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I think its fine to say we shouldnt be reading the racist books to kids

But he's written a lot of things that were great and theres no real reason to ignore them
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CommonGrackle
03/02/21 5:54:42 PM
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we normally call that censorship
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Smackems
03/02/21 5:55:03 PM
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Everything is stupid

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RadiantJoyrock
03/02/21 5:55:13 PM
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CommonGrackle posted...
we normally call that censorship
No we don't.
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Hexenherz
03/02/21 5:55:43 PM
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I don't see a reason to advertise a kids book that glorifies ownership of Black people but idk could just be me.

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ZeroX91
03/02/21 6:01:30 PM
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Seuss's non Seuss stuff is pretty cool.
https://youtu.be/3WSk86uIx2E
Really wanted a print of Firebird and the other bird can only get the prints through his familys site and a print of either runs you 2000 USD. Shits insane.

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skermac
03/02/21 7:19:40 PM
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g980 posted...
I think its fine to say we shouldnt be reading the racist books to kids

But he's written a lot of things that were great and theres no real reason to ignore them

ive never seen a racist dr seuss book, not saying they dont exist just that ive never seen one

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DDirtyDastard
03/02/21 7:22:59 PM
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I think people need to chill the fuck out.
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hockeybub89
03/02/21 7:24:01 PM
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I can't say it bothers me that dead people are criticized

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Lairen
03/02/21 7:24:29 PM
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We can dig up shit on anyone. Everyone sucks if you look hard enough.

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Dark_SilverX
03/02/21 7:25:05 PM
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Cancel that shit.

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RadiantJoyrock
03/02/21 7:25:17 PM
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Lairen posted...
We can dig up shit on anyone. Everyone sucks if you look hard enough.
No, and doesn't excuse him.
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hockeybub89
03/02/21 7:28:50 PM
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Lairen posted...
We can dig up shit on anyone. Everyone sucks if you look hard enough.
Sounds like we should stop idolizing human beings.

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Lairen
03/02/21 7:30:29 PM
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RadiantJoyrock posted...
No, and doesn't excuse him.

No ones excused and everyone sucks. Lets cancel everyone.

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kage_53
03/02/21 7:34:37 PM
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I dont get whats the point of erasing people out of history. Literally, you could do that to everyone who was born before 2010. Biden himself has said stuff that would cause him to have the same fate.
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ImmatureContent
03/02/21 7:43:36 PM
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No one is being erased from history. We teach about some really terrible people in history. Adolf Hitler is certainly a big part of history class. The point is to stop propping up the shitty people in a place of reverence.

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RadiantJoyrock
03/02/21 7:45:06 PM
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Lairen posted...
No ones excused and everyone sucks. Lets cancel everyone.
But everyone doesn't suck.

There's a big difference between holding questionable views from your time, and supporting slavery in some of your books.
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g980
03/02/21 7:48:17 PM
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skermac posted...


ive never seen a racist dr seuss book, not saying they dont exist just that ive never seen one


Yea i dont think they were the populars

And it wasnt like subtley racist, it was "oh yeah it was normal to portray some cultures as subhuman back then"

So yea just skip those and read green eggs and ham again imo
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Frizzurd
03/02/21 7:49:29 PM
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Better not touch The Sneetches, or the Butter Battle Book.

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CouldBeAnAlt
03/02/21 7:50:56 PM
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Hop on pop!

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Master_Bass
03/02/21 7:51:29 PM
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Don't care. The publishers decided not to print books that they think aren't appropriate anymore, and it's not like they were the super popular ones anyway.

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Duncanwii
03/02/21 8:43:06 PM
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ImmatureContent posted...
No one is being erased from history. We teach about some really terrible people in history. Adolf Hitler is certainly a big part of history class. The point is to stop propping up the shitty people in a place of reverence.

Are you really comparing Dr Seuss to Hitler? Really?
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ImmatureContent
03/02/21 9:00:28 PM
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Duncanwii posted...
Are you really comparing Dr Seuss to Hitler? Really?
No. I am using an extreme example of someone in history that has not been erased to clarify that we do not simply erase undesirable people from history.

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Heavy_D_Forever
03/02/21 9:03:46 PM
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I promise you no one gives a shit about Bidens "Read Across America" proclamation lol

Dr Seuss will always be famous for things like Cat In The Hat and Green Eggs & Ham. Those books won't just disappear from existence.

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joe40001
03/02/21 9:38:52 PM
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DDirtyDastard posted...
I think people need to chill the fuck out.


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LightHawKnight
03/02/21 9:44:42 PM
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I mean all they are doing is banning the books that are racist. Whats the problem?

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joe40001
03/02/21 9:46:37 PM
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LightHawKnight posted...
I mean all they are doing is banning books... Whats the problem?


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LightHawKnight
03/02/21 9:47:15 PM
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Sure leave out the racist part.

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RadiantJoyrock
03/02/21 10:22:16 PM
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LightHawKnight posted...
I mean all they are doing is banning the books that are racist. Whats the problem?
Nobody is banning books. The people who own the books are deciding not to sell them.
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ViewtifulGrave
03/02/21 10:26:26 PM
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skermac posted...
ive never seen a racist dr seuss book, not saying they dont exist just that ive never seen one


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joe40001
03/02/21 11:04:49 PM
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LightHawKnight posted...
Sure leave out the racist part.

Yeah, because if it's just banning books that would be a problem.

If it's just people not printing more because theirs little demands, that's reasonable and fine. And it's ok to adjust the curriculum of schools though I do think schools should get to choose (which I expect they do).

So I guess I don't understand where politics comes into this then

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Damn_Underscore
03/02/21 11:28:37 PM
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It was really difficult to find an actual quote from Dr. Seuss on this rather than just sensationalist articles.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190301-the-surprisingly-radical-politics-of-dr-seuss

One problematic issue in Seusss wartime cartoons is touched upon in Horton Hears a Who!. The Japanese cartoons are horribly narrow and racist and stereotyped, says Minear. A supporter of the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans, Seuss used offensive stereotypes to caricature the Japanese in his cartoons, leading to accusations that he was racist.

I think he would find it a legitimate criticism, because I remember talking to him about it at least once and him saying that things were done a certain way back then, Ted Owens, a great-nephew of Geisel, told The New York Times. Characterizations were done, and he was a cartoonist and he tended to adopt those. And I know later in his life he was not proud of those at all.

Seuss followed up a 1976 interview for his former college, Dartmouth, with a handwritten note in which he partially apologised for the cartoons. When I look at them now theyre hurriedly and embarrassingly badly drawn, and theyre full of many snap judgements that every political cartoonist has to make The one thing I do like about them, however, is their honesty and their frantic fervor. I believed the USA would go down the drain if we listened to the America Firstisms I probably was intemperate in my attacks on them. But they almost disarmed this country at a time it was obviously about to be destroyed, and I think I helped a little bit not much, but some in stating the fact that we were in a war and we damned well better ought to do something about it.

According to Minear, Horton Hears a Who! was an apology of sorts for his anti-Japanese cartoons. It was written soon after the war, and after a visit to Japan. He doesnt come out and explicitly say hes recanting his earlier views but its a very different take. The 1954 book is a parable about post-war relations between the US, Japan and the Soviet Union, promoting equal treatment with the line a persons a person no matter how small.

I think too many people don't realize that there is good and bad in many things. It either has to be all good or all bad with no in-between. That's not a very healthy mindset. A lot of people are going to stop reading Dr. Seuss books ever again because of this, which is fine. But people are also going to discourage others from reading or promoting Dr. Seuss books, which is not fine tbh.

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TheoryzC
03/03/21 12:15:33 AM
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Imagine if twitter was a thing back when this happened

https://people.com/archive/a-boy-sides-with-dr-seusss-lorax-and-puts-a-town-at-loggerheads-vol-32-no-17/

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