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Re: 6 Dr. Seuss books won't be published anymore because they portray people in 'hurtful and wrong' ways 

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (1)
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For me, this is the sort of censorship that causes problems for liberals.

It depends on a view of the world that whites should be ashamed of their whiteness and their history and that people of different colours are so weak they cannot allow any light humour to be written about them: apparently the study's authors were troubled that the Japanese were called, wait for it, Japanese.

These concerns may fly in ivory towers and where people walk on eggshells. But it falls like a lead balloon where much of the rest of the world lives. It's the sort of thing that makes Republicans more determined to vote for their candidates.

As night follows day, the banned books will now sell in larger quantities in the second hand market. And frankly, I'd never heard of them before today. I wonder if anyone much was purchasing them. Own goal.

There's no shame in being white. Or black. Or whatever. And for me, the world is a better place when people can make light-hearted fun of one another. Broad highways make for a healthier flow of traffic. Let the market decide.

I hope academics have better things to do with their time.


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6 Dr. Seuss books won't be published anymore because they portray people in 'hurtful and wrong' ways
By: clo in ALEA
Tue, 02 Mar 21 4:59 PM 		Msg. 41135 of 52895

It's never too late to change, good for them.

6 Dr. Seuss books won't be published anymore because they portray people in 'hurtful and wrong' ways

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Seuss, born Theodor Seuss Geisel, is one of the best-known authors in the world, the man behind beloved classics like "The Cat in the Hat," "Green Eggs and Ham" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," among others. Over 650 million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, the Washington Post reported in 2015.

But Dr. Seuss had a long history of publishing racist and anti-Semitic work, spanning back to the 1920s when he was a student at Dartmouth College. There, Dr. Seuss once drew Black boxers as gorillas and perpetuated Jewish stereotypes by portraying Jewish characters as financially stingy, according to a study published in the journal "Research on Diversity in Youth Literature."

That study, published in 2019, examined 50 books by Dr. Seuss and found 43 out of the 45 characters of color have "characteristics aligning with the definition of Orientalism," or the stereotypical, offensive portrayal of Asia. The two "African" characters, the study says, both have anti-Black characteristics.

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http://www.cnn.com/2021/03/02/us/dr-seuss-books-cease-publication-trnd/index.html

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