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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 [b]“well this is exactly what you voted for! [/b]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]

If Trump were President, what would he do to stop this? Sure, he would tweet about it and turn conservative cancel culture against the publisher. But what could he really do to stop it?

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Not the OP, but agree let's take this out of the political realm. The important question here IMO is how much do we value free expression and free speech as a society.  Even without any government action, major corporations and organizations can act to effectively severely restrict expression and remove a number of historic works from circulation.

Aren't Dr Seuss books in their way significant pieces of art.  Do we want any significant works like this effectively removed from the public record.  For all our lives things like "Birth of a Nation", "Mein Kampf" etc have been available for people to view or read.  We abhor all the sentiments in them but as a society we believed in the value of free expression.  [b]Do we want major organizations to decide for us whether these types of works should be available.[/b]  What if "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" comes up soon.  [/quote]

If you want to buy the rights and publish it yourself, go for it. The corporations aren't deciding if these books should be published or not. The corporations are deciding if THEY THEMSELVES should publish these books. [/quote]

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