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The title seems click bait. At first I thought all books are being delisted, turns out this affects six less popular titles. > The six discontinued Dr. Seuss b
by thih9 6y ago
The title seems click bait. At first I thought all books are being delisted, turns out this affects six less popular titles.
> The six discontinued Dr. Seuss books aren’t among the late author’s best-known works.
Wikipedia has more information about the most popular of these books and its criticism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Ran_the_Zoo#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Ran_the_Zoo#Criticism
- dx034 6y agoMost news websites also use "If I ran the zoo" as this one is the most clear cut. I had to search around a lot to find the example for McElligot's Pool. There it's just one illustration that could be viewed as offensive and it's much less obvious than some of the others. I don't understand why they don't just hire an illustrator to fix some of the racist features depicted there. As far as I can tell, only "If I ran the Zoo" has an offensive line, all others are just about a minority of the illustrations.