No one is asking you to apologize for practicing Christianity or any other religion. However, it is a fact that Christianity led to the idea of white people as a superior race and it was directly used as a justification for slavery. When one "spreads the faith," it by definition means coercing, by logic or force, others to practice the religion. And, when when you see where the Evangelicals are now, using Christianity to justify wholly un-Jesus practices, then is exposes some serious flaws in the current situation as it relates to the religion. |
And in this case, people were not buying it, so the publishers announced they were going to sop publishing it. And the so-called freemarketcapitalistsGOP went batshit over it. |
Not a Republican but definitely The Lorax should not be banned. And neither should Catcher in the Rye or Huckleberry Finn or almost any of the other books that have been targeted over the years. I do not see this as a right / left issue. |
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/ebay-removes-discontinued-dr-seuss-books-1573824%3famp=1
eBay won’t let you sell or buy the handful of Seuss books because they’ve been deemed offensive. This is the ripple effect. While the Seuss publishers can make a business decision not to publish, the reality is the accompanying rhetoric has an impact. The takeaway is racism, and it will likely impact the entire catalogue. Let’s see how book sales of the cat in the hat do year over year moving forward. My guess is there will be a dramatic decrease because most people won’t want to inadvertently offend anyone. |
Thank you! You got my point! Your side is doing the exact same thing. All you did here was get a publisher to join you. The other side, in their own subjectivity are unhappy, but shouldn't their own feelings account for something, somehow? I think those feelings should count in way that still honors your feelings. And someday they will. But that would require both of you to have empathy for people you currently hate. Thar's my point. Pictures in or out, I don't care. Stop the hate. |
Sure. It's hard to explain why because they are just as subjective as you admitted you are. Stop the hate. |
You call me these high brow insults to exclude me. But I have done nothing hurtful to anyone. All I did was dissent from your opinion. I'm a dissenter, not a psychopath. Dissenters often get treated like this, is that right? |
Who asked the publisher not to print it? Where are you getting that from? People weren't really buying these books. Likely because they saw something about them that made them uncomfortable. Perhaps without thinking about them too much. Then the publisher examined the book, realized the sales weren't great and also realized they didn't want to publish the book because they appreciated why so many Americans had stopped buying it. The public "asked the publisher not to print it" using free market techniques and free market techniques only. They weren't banned, no laws were passed to stop the publishing of the book, the government was in no way involved. So whats the problem exactly? |
Next it will be Babar. Then Curious George. Old TV shows and movies will continue to disappear. People will continue to be fired for saying the wrong thing on social media. Witch Hunts do not end on their own. |
Yeah, that's why there aren't any good minstrel shows anymore. Cancel culture! |
But that is exactly what the "marketplace of ideas" is. Things stand or fall on their own merit. If someone "attacks" a product or puts out a better one (as seen by the consumer), and the marketplace listens, then the product will lose its standing. That is exactly how the whole thing is supposed to work. Most of the time, conservatives don't want to see intervention from government or anyone else in upsetting this process. For the record, I don't think the "cat in the hat" will suffer long term. But I may very well be wrong. |
The idea that those images are racist has been pushed for years by certain scholars and interest groups aligned with their philosophy. Same type of people are pushing to drop Huck Finn from school curriculums because it has the n-word. Same people are pushing the whole idea that words and images are harmful and therefore must not be said/spread/shown. This is all around and you are part of it. |
You know, it can be hard to see a childhood favorite book no longer be as special to your kids as it was to you. I can sympathize with that. But children's literature, like all other preferences, change over time. I read "the very hungry caterpillar" over and over again to my kids when they were little. I don't know what I will be reading to their kids. Perhaps it will be "the very hungry caterpillar". Maybe something else will pop up. Maybe my kids will ask me not to read "the very hungry caterpillar" for reasons I can't at this time imagine. None of these outcomes are problems. |
The idea that these images are racist started with the affected groups and then spread to scholarship and interest groups. Sure. I can buy that. And eventually more people agreed with that interpretation than did not which put pressure on the publisher. That is exactly how the free market works. No body forced the publisher to do anything except be a little more tuned to their consumers. That's it. |
Funny you knew I was talking about you? You’re the guy who thinks there’s no such thing as right or wrong? Psycho much? |