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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please include links, people.[/quote]

This story has multiple headlines on Fox News.  That’s why troll op is glomming on to it.

The Dr. Seuss foundation says it will stop publishing several books due to racist stereotypes.  It’s pretty stupid and I think the backlash will be pretty significant.  That said, this is not due to the government action but because of people with power listening to an increasingly shrill and insane minority.  They don’t seem to have any moral compass of their own so they just follow the Twitterati.[/quote]

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]

But both you and your husband are wrong. Should the Suess Family Enterprises or whatever be FORCED to reproduce its books? If they are making the choice themselves, then it is a private entity making its own decisions. [/quote]

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