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[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.

[b]That is a big, big, change in American culture. [/b] 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]

You are going to have to back that up.  Am I to believe that publishers have never chosen before to stop publishing a book because the times were changing and they were no longer what they wanted to be associated with?[/quote]

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