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re: Dr. Seuss books are ‘racist,’ new study says

Posted on 3/1/19 at 4:25 pm to
Posted by ZappBrannigan
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Posted on 3/1/19 at 4:25 pm to
With howcolorful the populations of his book were I highly doubt only 45 were of color.
Posted by MightyYat
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Member since Jan 2009
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Posted on 3/1/19 at 4:27 pm to
Imagine if your job was to show up everyday TRY to find racist shite in children's books. That person was PAID to do that shite.
Posted by RedPop4
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Posted on 3/1/19 at 4:28 pm to
May even have written a grant for it.
Posted by LCA131
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Posted on 3/1/19 at 4:28 pm to
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What isn't racist these days?


Right.... The only thing I can think of that is not racist is anything created or said by Negroes.
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
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Posted on 3/1/19 at 4:41 pm to
The Hardy Boys were well known klan members as well
Posted by Paluka
One State Over
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 3/1/19 at 4:42 pm to
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Only white people read books anyway Unless it’s a math book then Asians read it


Posted by Paluka
One State Over
Member since Dec 2010
10763 posts
Posted on 3/1/19 at 4:45 pm to
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Left his wife who kinda made him what he is and stuck with him all those years and she ended up killing herself over it.


She chose to kill herself.

Just because he was a POS doesn't make his books racist. Stay on target.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 3/1/19 at 4:49 pm to
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The study, published in the journal for Research on Diversity in Youth Literature, analyzes 50 books and more than 2,200 characters created by Dr. Seuss. Of those characters, only 45 are of colour.

I wonder how man white characters there were in African stories.
Posted by Sao
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Member since Jun 2009
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Posted on 3/1/19 at 4:51 pm to

Little Black Sambo didn't even have an albino tiger.
Posted by Btrtigerfan
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Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 3/1/19 at 4:57 pm to
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Curious George


Damn monkey.
Posted by Btrtigerfan
Disgruntled employee
Member since Dec 2007
24169 posts
Posted on 3/1/19 at 4:57 pm to
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The presence of anti-blackness, Orientalism


I feel like they’re making some of this shite up as they go on.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 3/1/19 at 4:59 pm to
It takes an absolute moron to take examples of art from the past, and then try to apply these ridiculous modern social mores to them.

Staggeringly stupid but people do it every day!


This thing from 100 years ago offends me! I demand it be changed!

Posted by hombreman9
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Posted on 3/1/19 at 5:02 pm to
Had to relive the glory of 600+ upvotes, huh? Maybe your timely link will push it closer to the 1000 mark.
Posted by LCA131
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Posted on 3/1/19 at 5:02 pm to
His nose looks like he said that to the wrong guy,..
Posted by Sao
East Texas Piney Woods
Member since Jun 2009
68469 posts
Posted on 3/1/19 at 5:08 pm to

It's so commonplace to see so much outrage left right and center that I've grown immune or indifferent. It's like when we turned 21 and could buy booze without being nervous.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
135024 posts
Posted on 3/1/19 at 5:10 pm to
Thank you for the dv sir.
Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
Member since May 2017
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Posted on 3/1/19 at 5:12 pm to
If they knew Geisel was a socialist, they’d have left him alone.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
135024 posts
Posted on 3/1/19 at 5:13 pm to
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It's so commonplace to see so much outrage left right and center that I've grown immune or indifferent. It's like when we turned 21 and could buy booze without being nervous.



Right? But it seems like if one side gets offended we are supposed to destroy and alter and sanitize the past to acquiesce to them, but if i’m Offended by, say, a 10 year old in drag dancing at a gay strip club, or obvious men pretending to be women and beating girls half their size, i’m Just a close minded bigot.


I don’t want to take away anyone’s right to be outraged. I just want it all to be equally worthless, like is usually was before social media. We’ve amplified the worst aspects of our society
Posted by TigerstuckinMS
Member since Nov 2005
33687 posts
Posted on 3/1/19 at 5:14 pm to
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What isn't racist these days?

Keeping one's word and paying off bets.
Posted by SPEEDY
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Member since Dec 2003
88368 posts
Posted on 3/1/19 at 5:27 pm to
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One frick
Two fricks
I don’t give
A blue frick



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