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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Dr. Seuss Enterprises said it made the decision after consulting educators and reviewing its catalog."

[quote]Dr. Seuss had a long history of publishing racist and anti-Semitic work, spanning back to the 1920s when he was a student at Dartmouth College. There, Dr. Seuss once drew Black boxers as gorillas and perpetuated Jewish stereotypes by portraying Jewish characters as financially stingy.[/quote]

Oh, the horror that the people who manage his estate might want to dial back the parts of his work that suck by today's standards. Why can't I just go eat in a Sambo's Restaurant, pour some Aunt Jemima over my pancakes, and read some Dr. Suess depicting black people as gorillas. Damn you liberals!!![/quote]

OP is offended that people to portrayed fairly.[b] Why would someone want to buy those books anyway?[/b][/quote]
Because this is the United States of America, and that is actually a highly offensive question.  Even worse would be if you or any publisher ever decided not to print a book because they didn't think I should read it anymore. Which just happened.  They didn't stop publishing these books because they were money losers.  They stopped publishing because they thought they were too offensive to read.  And they said so.

That is a big, big, change in American culture.  And if you don't see how huge that is, and why the principle they used is so controversial, then all of you are the blind ones, not me.  Open your eyes.

Thanks. [/quote]
The only big big change is ash clowns Republicans are suddenly very certain that private businesses don’t get to make decisions for their own brand. What are you, some kind of pinko commie, PP? You want to run someone else’s business how you think they should run it, according to the GOP’s collective?

You’re being kept dumb on purpose and boy are you having a ball.[/quote]
When people tell you they are, believe them.  I believe what the publisher said about themselves.  I just told you I am.  There was nothing in what I said that is remotely a Republican argument.

You don't have to believe what I said.  But why is it so hard for you to understand that someone else might believe that? [/quote]

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