You're kidding! Dr Seuss' books are racist now?

[imastawka]

Boston: Six 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.

“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr Seuss Enterprises said in a statement on Tuesday, local time, that coincided with the late author and illustrator’s birthday.

“Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr Seuss Enterprises’ catalogue represents and supports all communities and families,” it said.

The other books affected are McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, Scrambled Eggs Super!, and The Cat’s Quizzer.

The decision to cease publication and sales of the books was made last year after months of discussion, the company said.

“Dr Seuss Enterprises listened and took feedback from our audiences including teachers, academics and specialists in the field as part of our review process. We then worked with a panel of experts, including educators, to review our catalogue of titles,” it said.

Books by Dr Seuss – who was born Theodor Seuss Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1904 – have been translated into dozens of languages as well as in braille and are sold in more than 100 countries. He died in 1991.

The world has truly gone mad.

More here -

Dr Seuss books with racist images to no longer be published (smh.com.au)

[4channel]

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@katistrophik wrote:

Now that I do agree with.

No malice,no hate, children pick up more from the actions of adults around them, more than they will ever pick up from a book (IMO)

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Great pic. I agree with what you say to a degree. But how many times do we hear ....  "I raised my son to be respectful and accept anyone no matter what colour they are. I can't understand how he turned out to be so hateful".

IMO the spores of  racial and religious hatred get in bit by bit until the infection eventually takes over that person.

[katistrophik]

Well

Someone has been busy - 5 posts gone

>>>>>>>> off to invstigate

[imastawka]

And yet Tuck's cartoon is still there.

Thought that one would disappear

(only cos my brain misread the last bubble )      

[*kazumi*]

I thought that the company that publishes Dr.Seuss' decided to stop printing SOME of his books because they did not sell any more.  I do not think any of his books were banned, although some libraries decided to remove them.  I have seen some of his cartoons published in newspapers 100 years ago, which  would definitely not be acceptable now. 

The trouble is America is so racist on one hand, and on the other they try to compensate by wiping out anything that they think could be interpreted as racist, which to me is rather racist in itself.  There have been accusation that members of the RF were asking how dark will Meghan's baby be.  Of course, we do not know why and how it was asked.  But people frequently discuss what expected baby will look like.  Especially if the parents' looks are dissimilar.  Will the baby have blue or brown eyes, blond, red or dark hair?  Will he be short and slim like mum, or tall are heavy set like dad?  I think it would be absolutely normal that excited members of Harry's family would wonder about what the baby will look like, and there would not be anything racist about it.  

[rogespeed]

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@katistrophik wrote:

I have come across bigoted perceptions by people who are ignorant as well as uneducated. Their views on people from Africa and other countries were shaped by someone or something.

See post #76

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Maybe shaped by different ancestral historic events that they still feel have a national-family equity in and so harbour lingering negative feelings and stereotyping  - is a two way street 

I understand some social guardedness but is sad if nasty and stereotyping by default.

[katistrophik]

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@rogespeed wrote:

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@katistrophik wrote:

I have come across bigoted perceptions by people who are ignorant as well as uneducated. Their views on people from Africa and other countries were shaped by someone or something.

See post #76

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Maybe shaped by different ancestral historic events that they still feel have a national-family equity in and so harbour lingering negative feelings and stereotyping  - is a two way street 

I understand some social guardedness but is sad if nasty and stereotyping by default.

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I didn't write that, my only contribution was See Post #76   JFTR 

[snow*jewel]

https://www.kidspot.com.au/lifestyle/entertainment/books-tv-and-movies/pep-le-pew-removed-from-space...

It's getting more silly if that's possible. 

[katistrophik]

You have got to be kidding, a cartoon from the '40's - the world has gone mad like stawks said.

I thought the Mr Potato Head de-gendering debarcle was the tip of the iceberg, clearly I was wrong.

[domino-710]

Wait - not only - Dr Seuss - not only MR & MRS Potato Head - but the US is now honing in on - Speedy Gonzales.

[the_bob_delusion]

https://news.sky.com/story/peppa-pig-and-fireman-sam-accused-of-sexism-by-london-fire-brigade-116705...

Ban them all.