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I’m OP, not a troll. Before posting here I mentioned this article to my husband (a conservative) and how it bothered me, and he said “well this is exactly what you voted for! You voted to affirm behavior like this”. Which made me very angry, and I turned here for a discussion. As a democrat, I am afraid of the influence this extremely loud minority has. I do not support pulling books from shelves, or re-writing history, or large tech companies silencing opposing or even offensive participants. It just seems like society is going to a weird place, and the corporations are perhaps in a place to censor on behalf of the government, which can claim it has no influence?[/quote]
Here is the truth: the company that oversees the Seuss estate has decided, in concert with interested parties, to no longer publish six of his books due to racist imagery. There’s no “extremely loud minority.”  You can still buy the books and read them to your kids from secondhand sources. I haven’t heard that most libraries will be pulling these. Hell you can get a copy of Little Black Sambo secondhand if that’s what blows your hair back.

It’s going to make you so sad to discover that every year libraries cull books and publishers decide not to publish certain books anymore. Yes, OP, every year! You can even buy some of these books at library book sales. Would you like to discuss why? It’s because things change and evolve. And culturally we have decided that these images that are stereotypical and racist, not something that we want to expose children to as culturally normative.

But seriously, I know someone who is “liberal” like you but spends hours every night listening to her husband’s amygdala-enlarging right wing media choices. She sounds as freaked out about regular life as you do right now. Might be time to step back or convince your husband to watch PBS instead.[/quote]

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