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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is appalling to me that they are pulling some of Dr. Seuss’s classic children’s books off the shelves because they are potentially offensive. At what point does this cancel culture not become Fahrenheit 451?

I just re-read one of the titles being discontinued, “...Saw it on Mulberry St”, Dr. Seuss’s first children’s book and a wonderful story about imagination. The only potentially offensive line in the whole book is “a Chinese man that eats with sticks”. Is acknowledging that Chinese eat with chopsticks now so offensive that we are banning a book that mentions it? Can any Asians out there please enlighten me and tell me if you’re happy with the choice to remove this classic book from the shelves?

I’m really afraid of what’s going on, and that this kind of move is supported and applauded by the left. [/quote]
Sure, you’re a liberal.

And it’s the company that owns the Seuss estate that has decided not to publish them anymore, because they’ve decided that the images look like racist caricatures. Is that okay with you, OP, that a private business is making business decisions? Or do you absolutely need to know there are racist images available for children to consume? “Liberal” my foot. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/books/dr-seuss-mulberry-street.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces&block=trending_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=611826861&impression_id=2a05d563-7b69-11eb-a011-4b3621e00654&index=3&pgtype=Article&region=footer&req_id=511260386&surface=most-popular-story&variant=0_bandit-all-surfaces[/quote]

I believe OP is a liberal. It seems to me that many people on the far right and far left are very similar in this way- always aghast and deeply offended about the things other people do and desperate for the government to intervene. [/quote]

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