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I'm incredibly curious which political group has a sense of humor in your mind. Because I'm going to guess most folks would say, "my political group".

imwillofficial 6y ago
Can you read my mind?!? ::Looks at you with suspicion:: In all seriousness, I haven’t followed closely, so I don’t know who hates Dr. Seuss lately, they are the baddies.
- Pfhreak 6y ago
  I think it's yet another situation where everyone is escalating hard from "hey, there are some stereotypes in this particular media that are problematic when presented uncritically". That initial idea somehow turns into, "The left hates Dr. Seuss" and wild slippery slopes about book burning.
  - imwillofficial 6y ago
    The left is literally pushing for the banning of a childhood classic with no racial problems. No slippery slope needed.
    - anigbrowl 6y ago
      That isn't true. There was a scholarly paper that came out in 2019 observing that a few of Dr Seuss's many children's books included racial stereotypes that are dated to the point of being offensive, and that Geisel/Seuss had also produced a lot of adult cartoons that were overtly racist, a complicating factor for educators who used his books to to educate children about discrimination. https://sophia.stkate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&context=rdyl https://sophia.stkate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&c... Recently the publisher announced it was going to stop selling those - I think it was 6 books out of 107 in the catalog. There was no pressure campaign or wave of outrage driving it. Perhaps you should choose better news sources, as the ones you are using seem to be serving you poorly.
      - imwillofficial 6y ago
        Ebay is banning accounts that sell Dr. Seuss books. Fact. The outrage over racial overtones came from a left aligned organization. Fact. It was carried on and cheered on by left leaning people. Fact. People on the right don’t use words like “problematic” and “racialized undertones” That’s on you guys. This is from The horses mouth: “ Six popular Dr. Seuss books — including And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo — “will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday,” The Associated Press reported. “These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement marking the late author and illustrator’s birthday.” ^ The above is just stupid.
        Pfhreak 6y ago
        You can add the word fact after a sentence, that doesn't make it a fact. Fact. ;)
        imwillofficial 6y ago
        You’re right about me saying fact not making it a fact. Fact. (Oh god I don’t think I can stop now...) However, I just shared a bunch of open source facts with you. All sourced from left leaning sources as to be somewhat unbiased (even though my bias on this subject is probably pretty heavy) This isn’t about winning an online argument, it’s about a call for reason when things have become so silly that we are a step away from the Grinch being canceled because his big nose looks Jewish and that’s Nazism or something. Not one single neo Nazi has ever been uplifted and supported in their beliefs by classic children’s books.
        anigbrowl 6y ago
        I thought that adding factual and documentary context in a polite way might elevate the conversation, but it looks like you prefer being rude and angry.
        imwillofficial 6y ago

imwillofficial 6y ago

Can you read my mind?!? ::Looks at you with suspicion:: In all seriousness, I haven’t followed closely, so I don’t know who hates Dr. Seuss lately, they are the baddies.

Pfhreak 6y ago
I think it's yet another situation where everyone is escalating hard from "hey, there are some stereotypes in this particular media that are problematic when presented uncritically". That initial idea somehow turns into, "The left hates Dr. Seuss" and wild slippery slopes about book burning.
- imwillofficial 6y ago
  The left is literally pushing for the banning of a childhood classic with no racial problems. No slippery slope needed.
  - anigbrowl 6y ago
    That isn't true. There was a scholarly paper that came out in 2019 observing that a few of Dr Seuss's many children's books included racial stereotypes that are dated to the point of being offensive, and that Geisel/Seuss had also produced a lot of adult cartoons that were overtly racist, a complicating factor for educators who used his books to to educate children about discrimination. https://sophia.stkate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&context=rdyl https://sophia.stkate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&c... Recently the publisher announced it was going to stop selling those - I think it was 6 books out of 107 in the catalog. There was no pressure campaign or wave of outrage driving it. Perhaps you should choose better news sources, as the ones you are using seem to be serving you poorly.
    - imwillofficial 6y ago
      Ebay is banning accounts that sell Dr. Seuss books. Fact. The outrage over racial overtones came from a left aligned organization. Fact. It was carried on and cheered on by left leaning people. Fact. People on the right don’t use words like “problematic” and “racialized undertones” That’s on you guys. This is from The horses mouth: “ Six popular Dr. Seuss books — including And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo — “will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday,” The Associated Press reported. “These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement marking the late author and illustrator’s birthday.” ^ The above is just stupid.
      - Pfhreak 6y ago
        You can add the word fact after a sentence, that doesn't make it a fact. Fact. ;)
      - imwillofficial 6y ago
        You’re right about me saying fact not making it a fact. Fact. (Oh god I don’t think I can stop now...) However, I just shared a bunch of open source facts with you. All sourced from left leaning sources as to be somewhat unbiased (even though my bias on this subject is probably pretty heavy) This isn’t about winning an online argument, it’s about a call for reason when things have become so silly that we are a step away from the Grinch being canceled because his big nose looks Jewish and that’s Nazism or something. Not one single neo Nazi has ever been uplifted and supported in their beliefs by classic children’s books.
      - anigbrowl 6y ago
        I thought that adding factual and documentary context in a polite way might elevate the conversation, but it looks like you prefer being rude and angry.
        imwillofficial 6y ago