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Oh The Places We Will Go. Like Cancel Land. Dr Seuss cancelled. He's RACIST!!!
Posted on 2/27/21 at 11:52 am
Posted on 2/27/21 at 11:52 am
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Learning for Justice — a left-wing educators group — is demanding that Dr. Seuss be canceled. A prominent Virginia school district has taken marching orders and ordered its schools to avoid “connecting Read Across America Day with Dr. Seuss.”
Loudoun County Public Schools, one of the nation’s most affluent school districts, announced that it will no longer recognize Dr. Seuss on his birthday. In an announcement obtained by The Daily Wire, the school district said that Dr. Suess’s children’s books contain “racial undertones” that are not suitable for “culturally responsive” learning.
“Of the 2,240 (identified) human characters, there are 45 of color representing two percent of the total number of human characters,” the study reads. Of the 45 characters of color, 43 “exhibited behaviors and appearances that align with harmful and stereotypical Orientalist tropes.”
Learning for Justice alleges that many of the non-white characters in Dr. Seuss’s books were men and were “subservient” to the white characters in his book.
“It’s also important to note that each of the non-white characters is male and that they are all ‘presented in subservient, exotified, or dehumanized roles,’ especially in relation to white characters,” the organization wrote.
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Posted on 2/27/21 at 11:53 am to L.A.
This is what the likes of AggieHank actively support.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 11:55 am to L.A.
It's Dr. Seuss. It's fiction. Kids love it.
I guess it would be better if kids just didn't learn to read at all.
I guess it would be better if kids just didn't learn to read at all.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 11:57 am to L.A.
The cat in the hat, the most famous character is black. So how about them apples?
Posted on 2/27/21 at 11:57 am to L.A.
Here’s an idea. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.
Problem solved.
Problem solved.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 12:03 pm to L.A.
I was not aware that Green Eggs and Ham were meant to be a directive on menu planning.
I hate leftists.
They are insane and can suck the fun out of a helium balloon.
I hate leftists.
They are insane and can suck the fun out of a helium balloon.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 12:04 pm to Wednesday
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I hate leftists.
Would you like them in a box?
Posted on 2/27/21 at 12:06 pm to L.A.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 12:07 pm to L.A.
This is surprising because Geisel was a big leftist.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 12:10 pm to L.A.
Aren’t most Seuss characters, like, colored. Not black “colored,” but actual crayola “colored?” 
Posted on 2/27/21 at 12:19 pm to onmymedicalgrind
quote:I honestly did not remember that many of his characters are even human. I was wrong. There ARE a few.
Aren’t most Seuss characters, like, colored
Posted on 2/27/21 at 12:33 pm to dclt145
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Posted on 2/27/21 at 12:37 pm to L.A.
I went ahead and enrolled Seuss in the same sensitivity training program that Mr. Potato Head will be taking in next week. Gonna have to separate those two though.....they'll cut up like you wouldn't believe if they're allowed to sit together.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 12:37 pm to mtntiger
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I guess it would be better if kids just didn't learn to read at all.
Well why should they? Math is racist, why wouldnt reading be as well? Dont read. Just listen to what people in authority say. Thats all you need. Dont bother yourself with learning outside the box. They will tell you what you need to know.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 12:40 pm to BobBoucher
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Here’s an idea. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.
Problem solved.
Don’t bring logic into this thread. We have to talk in riddles and apply the answer to this question to match the direction of the narrative.
Wait, so what’s the marching order today? Cancel Dr. Seuss? K.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 12:41 pm to L.A.
Well Harry Potter only has 2 black, 1 Asian, and 2 Indian characters out of 100, so I guess that's next... Oh wait, sorry forgot JKR is a TERF, so they've already called for her cancelation
Posted on 2/27/21 at 12:43 pm to L.A.
quote:This is the kind of stuff I could imagine us having a less frenzied, actual discussion about in a less polarized environment. Given the milieu of thought police sweeping our institutions at present, my kneejerk response is just to say "frick off" to these people.
Oh The Places We Will Go. Like Cancel Land. Dr Seuss cancelled. He's RACIST!!!
I also think Dr. Seuss is radically over-rated - and thus he is not sacred to me (and I think it's borderline weird to be "recognizing his birthday" in the first place.) Are they actually going to ban the books or not? That would be much scarier.
But if we were having an actual discussion, I would imagine it going something like this:
The works of Dr. Seuss can give us good insight into the prism through which much of culture was viewed in mid-century America. Unsurprisingly, a white male writing in 1955 America probably unwittingly heavily skewed his characters towards a profile that he viscerally understood: white males. It's also unsurprising that a prominent white male in mid-century America wasn't exactly enlightened when it came to matters of gender and race equity. In fact, America was undergoing a final spasm of racial inequity at the time - and this could have (perhaps unconsciously) influenced the author.
As we view the mid-century today from our distant perch in 2021, we might marvel at the level of progress that our society has made along these lines. When reading our beloved Dr. Seuss presently, we can both enjoy the original material and reflect on what more inclusive literature might have been like.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 12:48 pm to L.A.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 12:48 pm to OysterPoBoy
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The cat in the hat, the most famous character is black.
If he was really black he'd be wearing his ball cap backwards.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 12:49 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:It could also go like this: Analyze the works of black authors. Cancel the ones who don't have enough white characters in their books, or those whose books portray whites in a negative fashion.
But if we were having an actual discussion, I would imagine it going something like this:
That won't happen because everything about this discussion is a one way street.
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