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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OR OP your opinion is just in the minority.  Why do you care that people disagree with you, so much so that a publisher decides it also disagrees with you? What harm do you think is being perpetrated here? Really. I want to know. What is it you fear is being lost?  There are better books in the catalogue that don’t have the same problems. No one is cancelling Seuss.[/quote]
Oh, my opinion is definitely in the minority.  It's an even smaller minority than you think.  That's why you all keep taking wrong guesses and wonder what it "really" is.  I could try to tell you, but you probably won't like it. Want me to try anyway?  If you don't get it you don't, but will you think I'm idiot because you don't get it, or admit that other people might have a valid opinion too.[/quote]

You made your opinion clear many times. You don’t see a problem with the books. There’s no guessing going on here.

You didn’t answer my question.[/quote]
The harm is that in using a subjective standard that favors some people over others, those who are disadvantaged by this in some way also suffer a type of "harm."  You call yourself empathetic because you extend your empathy to certain races.  But you don't extend your empathy to others whom you disagree with.  This harmful to them and they are telling you so.  You think the harm to them doesn't count.  It is your right to think that.  I think that's wrong.  Sorry I have empathy for people who don't count.  It apparently makes me a bad person.  I'm okay with that.[/quote]

Harmful to whom and how, do tell.[/quote]

Who is harmed by stopping publication?[/quote]

It has been trickling down into schools where teachers and parents decide not to read Dr. Seuss anymore or much less. In addition, his name is being harmed unnecessarily. It goes beyond just the stopping of a publication which is allowed by law, but still people can decide it wasn't a good decision and speak out about it.

Well I'm sure the foundation did this to preserve their sales of other books. For them it's a monetary decision. Based on "the mob" saying they won't buy Dr. Seuss otherwise. But it's gone farther to where teachers don't want to read Dr. Seuss and are smearing the name. It's just a complete overreaction of a famous author who was anti-racist in most of his work.[/quote]

So who was harmed by stopping publication?[/quote][/quote]

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