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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, you voted for this type of leadership, OP.

We warned you.

By the way, info/clips of Michelle O and Kamala are circulating. They LOVED Dr. Seuss! Lol![/quote]

I love Dr Seuss too. You now he wrote some 60 books right? I don't need to read the old ones with racist imagery. There are plenty of others to read my kids. And so much other literature out there I don't need to be reading only Dr Seuss books.

Why are people so fixated on a few books out of the millions that are out there? Oh I know, because the whole stupid culture war thing is the only topic the right has going for it.

Someone on another thread was arguing about the Nazi rune used as the design of the CPAC stage, saying it was obscure because probably only 1/1000 Americans even knew what it was, so therefore it didn't matter.

Well, I bet fewer than 1/1000 Americans have ever read all 6 of the books the publisher is no longer publishing, or even heard of them. So why are cons so verklempt over obscure books?

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You know, I bet most people never noticed all those General Lee statues until the left demanded they be torn down.  Why so verklempt over a stupid old statue nobody looks at?

Personally, I don't care either way, but let's stop pretending that there aren't two sides in the culture wars, each with their own concerns  [/quote]

Yeah, why so verklempt over removing a stupid old statue nobody looks at? (Except the descendants of enslaved people who did notice it, of which group I'm assuming you are not a part of, am I correct?)  So anyway, I guess we're in agreement![/quote]
Well somebody apparently noticed this book and thought that it should stay in print.  You can always belittle the other by saying your concerns matter more than theirs, no matter the issue. Do you really think 100% of black people agree with you?  [/quote]

No, did I say that I did? But a majority of them do. https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/07/06/most-black-americans-support-removal-confederate-s

Look, I loved some books growing up that I wish had stayed in print. But they didn't. Boo hoo. Guess I'll just have to buy used copies of them. Them's the breaks.

At any rate, once those Dr Seuss books get into the public domain all you people mad about them no longer being published can go publish them yourselves free of charge. In the meantime there are plenty of them floating out there. You can start a circulation of photocopies of them if you want to.  I'm guessing most of you complaining about it don't even own them and probably never had any intention of buying them before this all blew up, so now you'll have to go looking for them the way I do when looking for out-of-print books. Get to know your local used book stores. Get to know abebooks and bilbiofind and other online resources.

Things change. If your biggest problem is a publisher deciding not to publish a few titles any more, congratulations.[/quote]

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