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I don’t know if I necessarily agree with deciding to stop publishing books, even those that have images that portray different races in a negative light. On th
by torgian 6y ago
I don’t know if I necessarily agree with deciding to stop publishing books, even those that have images that portray different races in a negative light.
On the one hand, you don’t want children to be easily influenced to adopt behavior that should not be adopted.
However, there are still books out there that do have racist overtones. This is something you just can’t remove from every day life.
I think a better solution would be to continue publishing these books, but prevent children from reading them until they are old enough to understand why the race portrayals in these books are wrong.
Or, at the very least, hold an open discussion about these books.
Banning / removing them entirely isn’t the answer in the long term.
- websites2323 6y agoI’m not sure why the Suess company couldn’t do what the makers of old cartoons did on Disney+. There’s a title card warning on old cartoons that say they are a product of their time, cultural depictions are not accurate, etc. It would be fairly simple to do this for new editions of the books. Print up front the precise images which are sensitive, and talk about what they would look like today or why they wouldn’t be included at all.
- Blueskytech 6y agoExcept that it is impossible to find early Disney war cartoons or more importantly “Song of the South”. The absence of SOTS is truly sad as the movie created the song “zippity do da”. “Song of the South” is beyond the pale for today’s sensibility but I do think its availability should be preserved since its titular song is a cultural touchstone much like the music from “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” or the line ‘Here’s looking at you kid’ from “Casablanca”