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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I came to the US in the mid 80s, from communist China. People in the modern day have no conception of what it's like to experience the western culture for the first time, coming from a nearly perfect state of vacuum. Everything was new, vibrant, and amazing, including sliced bread and bologna.

Now throw on top of this, Dr Seuss books. It's like adding Mentos to a bottle of soda. I remember vividly pulling those books off the shelf at the local public library, which was mind blowing in and of itself. An air-conditioned building where everyone is polite and quiet, filled with books! A children's section, my gawd! What are these books, with cats, funny hats, strange words, what does it all mean?

Of all the books I read during those first few months of being in the US, the only ones I remember is my English text book, and Dr Seuss books. Maybe Dr Seuss books contain racially insensitive content, but to stop printing a volume because it talks about Chinese people using chopsticks? I imagine the 11-year-old me would have giggled at understanding that one reference, a moment of familiarity on and otherwise wild mental ride. [/quote]

Read the article, it isn't the government taking this action. It is the company that holds the rights. This isn't the authoritarian communist state. Please.[/quote]

You didn't read what I wrote. I only mentioned my home country as a contrast to the rich and vibrant culture I encountered in the US. Dr. Seuss books are representative of the unrestrained imaginations of a child's mind, immersed in the glimmering melting pot that is the United States, feeding off of its nutrients. Ironically, the same parents who pay $6 for a dozen of eggs from certified cage-free antibiotic-free grain-fed chickens want their kids to experience a literary world that is sterile, scrubbed of impurities, liberally sprayed with the pesticide of leftist conformity.

Notice I didn't blame the government for anything in the above. [/quote]

Good news!  There will still be tons of Dr. Seuss books in the library with the unrestrained imaginations of a child's mind on full display!  And go buy whatever eggs you want, dude, although I don't quite get why that's relevant.[/quote]

But now there will be less, and the book that's no longer printed contains an image that portrays a culture that I identify with, not because people like me complained, but because some people who don't understand my culture pressured the publisher to stop printing it. That vibrant world is now dimmer out of ignorance. [/quote]

Ok.  So go print your own book.  Brighten up that culture! [/quote]

I see you've conceded the point. You ought to be ashamed of being aligned with people who support destroying and erasing things because of your misinformed sensibilities. [/quote]

Tastes change.  The culture changes.  It’s destruction in the sense that the passage of time is destruction.[/quote]

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