Read Across America -Dr. Seuss

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Book banning is for fascists. They may as well have a book burning at this rate.

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Anonymous wrote:Book banning is for fascists. They may as well have a book burning at this rate.

Don't give Trump any ideas.

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Anonymous wrote:Book banning is for fascists. They may as well have a book burning at this rate.

Don't give Trump any ideas.

No fan of his, but it's the woke who use brown shirt tactics.

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Anonymous wrote:Book banning is for fascists. They may as well have a book burning at this rate.

Don't give Trump any ideas.

Or Biden.

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Anonymous wrote:These are the cancelled books:

'And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street', 'If I Ran the Zoo', 'McElligot's Pool', 'On Beyond Zebra!', 'Scrambled Eggs Super!', and 'The Cat's Quizzer'

Today is Geisel’s birthday and he is usually celebrated big time. He’s been cancelled by Biden! No mention of him whatsoever on a day when he is usually lauded as the giant of children’s literature that he is.

He was NOT a racist. How is it even racist to depict an Asian person in an Asian conical hat that is very culturally common and associated with Asians like cowboy hats are associated with Americans?

Geisel drew some ugly propaganda cartoons for adults during the pre WWII years to pay the bills and help push Americans toward the anti fascist war effort when Charles Lindbergh and others were pushing America First and happy to laud Hitler and his actions.

I am seriously astounded by the idiocy that is taking over American progressivism.

This is what I read this morning

As NPR's Code Switch team has reported:

"In And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, for example, a character described as Chinese has two lines for eyes, carries chopsticks and a bowl of rice, and wears traditional Japanese-style shoes. In If I Ran the Zoo, two men said to be from Africa are shown shirtless, shoeless and wearing grass skirts as they carry an exotic animal. Outside of his books, the author's personal legacy has come into question, too — Seuss wrote an entire minstrel show in college and performed as the main character in full blackface."

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/02/972777841/dr-seuss-enterprises-will-shelve-6-books-citing-hurtful-portrayals

So other than being slightly inaccurate, whats the big deal? My kids once brought home a book where a polar bear befriended a penguin (they live on opposite ends of the earth) but the book wasn't being cancelled!

I don't blame Biden for this. He's got bigger fish to fry. This is the stupid super-liberal activists that make all liberals look bad.

I don't know if penguins and polar bears are a good analogy for non-white people.
So you'd have no problem with cihldrens books portraying Jewish people and their exaggerated noses?

You are keying in on something important: leaving out racist caricatures Seuss books are all white characters and animals. Schools prefer to show books in which all students can see themselves , not just white kids. Then students who aren’t white see themselves in books too. Which is why the focus is coming off Seuss to more diverse texts and authors . It’s 2021, not 1937.

What about Black and Asian children who have to see themselves portrayed in this way in the books?? This isn’t something white kids need to worry about.

Well exactly. Which is why schools aren’t focusing on them. But some people want to claim those depictions aren’t an issue so I’m trying to help them see it from a different POV which is that even taking those out the books are only white kids and weird animals. Why read those when schools can read books with diverse characters ?

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Anonymous wrote:These are the cancelled books:

'And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street', 'If I Ran the Zoo', 'McElligot's Pool', 'On Beyond Zebra!', 'Scrambled Eggs Super!', and 'The Cat's Quizzer'

Today is Geisel’s birthday and he is usually celebrated big time. He’s been cancelled by Biden! No mention of him whatsoever on a day when he is usually lauded as the giant of children’s literature that he is.

He was NOT a racist. How is it even racist to depict an Asian person in an Asian conical hat that is very culturally common and associated with Asians like cowboy hats are associated with Americans?

Geisel drew some ugly propaganda cartoons for adults during the pre WWII years to pay the bills and help push Americans toward the anti fascist war effort when Charles Lindbergh and others were pushing America First and happy to laud Hitler and his actions.

I am seriously astounded by the idiocy that is taking over American progressivism.

This is what I read this morning

As NPR's Code Switch team has reported:

"In And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, for example, a character described as Chinese has two lines for eyes, carries chopsticks and a bowl of rice, and wears traditional Japanese-style shoes. In If I Ran the Zoo, two men said to be from Africa are shown shirtless, shoeless and wearing grass skirts as they carry an exotic animal. Outside of his books, the author's personal legacy has come into question, too — Seuss wrote an entire minstrel show in college and performed as the main character in full blackface."

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/02/972777841/dr-seuss-enterprises-will-shelve-6-books-citing-hurtful-portrayals

So other than being slightly inaccurate, whats the big deal? My kids once brought home a book where a polar bear befriended a penguin (they live on opposite ends of the earth) but the book wasn't being cancelled!

I don't blame Biden for this. He's got bigger fish to fry. This is the stupid super-liberal activists that make all liberals look bad.

I don't know if penguins and polar bears are a good analogy for non-white people.
So you'd have no problem with cihldrens books portraying Jewish people and their exaggerated noses?

You are keying in on something important: leaving out racist caricatures Seuss books are all white characters and animals. Schools prefer to show books in which all students can see themselves , not just white kids. Then students who aren’t white see themselves in books too. Which is why the focus is coming off Seuss to more diverse texts and authors . It’s 2021, not 1937.

But the characters barely look human at all. Lots of yellow and green humanoid beings, like the Simpsons. But while we're at it, I find the Simpsons way more racist than Seuss.

And we don’t watch the Simpsons in school or traditionally spend a whole week on the Simpsons.

No, but if you are antiracist and you or your kids watch the Simpsons, you are extremely hypocritical. The point though is that race isn't discernible in many of Seuss's books. That said, I don't think lack of diversity is a compelling reason to exclude a book from the classroom.

I actually don’t watch the Simpsons but thanks for that bizarre little non sequitur

[Anonymous]

Good thing he didn't write a story about Mr. Potato Head.

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Anonymous wrote:These are the cancelled books:

'And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street', 'If I Ran the Zoo', 'McElligot's Pool', 'On Beyond Zebra!', 'Scrambled Eggs Super!', and 'The Cat's Quizzer'

Today is Geisel’s birthday and he is usually celebrated big time. He’s been cancelled by Biden! No mention of him whatsoever on a day when he is usually lauded as the giant of children’s literature that he is.

He was NOT a racist. How is it even racist to depict an Asian person in an Asian conical hat that is very culturally common and associated with Asians like cowboy hats are associated with Americans?

Geisel drew some ugly propaganda cartoons for adults during the pre WWII years to pay the bills and help push Americans toward the anti fascist war effort when Charles Lindbergh and others were pushing America First and happy to laud Hitler and his actions.

I am seriously astounded by the idiocy that is taking over American progressivism.

This is what I read this morning

As NPR's Code Switch team has reported:

"In And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, for example, a character described as Chinese has two lines for eyes, carries chopsticks and a bowl of rice, and wears traditional Japanese-style shoes. In If I Ran the Zoo, two men said to be from Africa are shown shirtless, shoeless and wearing grass skirts as they carry an exotic animal. Outside of his books, the author's personal legacy has come into question, too — Seuss wrote an entire minstrel show in college and performed as the main character in full blackface."

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/02/972777841/dr-seuss-enterprises-will-shelve-6-books-citing-hurtful-portrayals

So other than being slightly inaccurate, whats the big deal? My kids once brought home a book where a polar bear befriended a penguin (they live on opposite ends of the earth) but the book wasn't being cancelled!

I don't blame Biden for this. He's got bigger fish to fry. This is the stupid super-liberal activists that make all liberals look bad.

I don't know if penguins and polar bears are a good analogy for non-white people.
So you'd have no problem with cihldrens books portraying Jewish people and their exaggerated noses?

You are keying in on something important: leaving out racist caricatures Seuss books are all white characters and animals. Schools prefer to show books in which all students can see themselves , not just white kids. Then students who aren’t white see themselves in books too. Which is why the focus is coming off Seuss to more diverse texts and authors . It’s 2021, not 1937.

But the characters barely look human at all. Lots of yellow and green humanoid beings, like the Simpsons. But while we're at it, I find the Simpsons way more racist than Seuss.

And we don’t watch the Simpsons in school or traditionally spend a whole week on the Simpsons.

No, but if you are antiracist and you or your kids watch the Simpsons, you are extremely hypocritical. The point though is that race isn't discernible in many of Seuss's books. That said, I don't think lack of diversity is a compelling reason to exclude a book from the classroom.

The supposed ‘white’ characters in Seuss books resemble deformed aliens. I am offended because that’s not what I want to be portrayed as. I do not look like these characters. All white girls don’t look like Cindy Lu or whatever. Seriously, I really don’t GAF.

[Anonymous]

Is this a FoxNews outrage thing?

Dr Seuss’s company is the one that decided it wouldn’t release those books again.

[Anonymous]

Has anyone posted this yet - helpful explanation via Twitter

https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1366670961504882688?s=04&fbclid=IwAR2nye0wTT_ZuIAUkp9k82oXPNfjYgJTe-lIEAat4ikL_Tzhvej1iMffR-4

[Anonymous]

Why can’t we just keep the Dr. Seuss books that don’t depict people in a racist way, and not the ones that do?

This doesn’t seem that difficult.

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I just read the mulberry street one tonight to my kids. I wouldn’t consider it racist. It has a Chinese character who was a caricature (but so were the weird looking whites!) and said he eats with sticks. Truly the cartoon didn’t look offensive. It also was a Chinese person from the 1930s, not a modern looking person with western clothes on.

I’m very curious if actual Chinese people would be offended by these images.

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Curious why is everyone is just focused on how the Chinese man is portrayed and no one touches on the shirtless African with a grassy skirt carrying an exotic animal?

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Anonymous wrote:Book banning is for fascists. They may as well have a book burning at this rate.

No one is banning any books, you moron.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t we just keep the Dr. Seuss books that don’t depict people in a racist way, and not the ones that do?

This doesn’t seem that difficult.

And that's exactly what Seuss's company is doing. Loudon County is NOT banning any books, they're just removing the focus of Read Across America Week from just focusing on Dr. Seuss to focus on ALL authors instead. That's literally it. Stop watching Fox News and settle the F down.