Very confused about the uproar on Dr. Seuss

A few of the older, less known Seuss books have some racial caricatures. Biden's people probably didn't know the extent of it so they played it safe and chose not to mention Seuss yesterday. Fox then made a major issue of this as if it was an overreaction and a complete cancel of Seuss, which it was not.

Number one rule of the internet:

For every action there is an unequal and disproportionately opposite overreaction.

Doesn't matter if it's fake or not, Republicans will see the headlines and eat it up and Fox will continue profiting from manufactured outrage

just my take wrote:

Biden's people probably didn't know the extent of it so they played it safe and chose not to mention Seuss yesterday. Fox then made a major issue of this as if it was an overreaction and a complete cancel of Seuss, which it was not.

What I'm not understanding is why Dr. Seuss specifically? Why did he have to get mentioned? And why did his omission set off Fox/the far right so much?

Hey Kitty Girl wrote:

just my take wrote:

Biden's people probably didn't know the extent of it so they played it safe and chose not to mention Seuss yesterday. Fox then made a major issue of this as if it was an overreaction and a complete cancel of Seuss, which it was not.

What I'm not understanding is why Dr. Seuss specifically? Why did he have to get mentioned? And why did his omission set off Fox/the far right so much?

Actually CNN spent way more time on this than other networks and they even had people who tried to explain the issue with his books and sounded very foolish. If the book was good enough for O'bama and he didn't see an issue with it a few years ago...worry about something that matters!

Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced they would no longer to allow 6 books with negative stereotypes to be published.

Before that, in the last few years, school mentioned they were moving away from Seuss for a variety of reasons including diverse authors.

Also March 2, was Seuss' birthday.

Is he being cancelled? No.

Is he being boycotted? No

Is he being forgotten? No

Will he still be read by millions of kids? Yes

Are conservatives trying to make this part of their BS whining about progress. YES!

I hate to break it to conservatives but culture changes. We aren't watching the same TV shows, listening to the same music as we did 60 years ago. The tent is bigger and more art is being created all the time. We can respect the past without being slaves to it.

hey hey it's saturday wrote:

Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced they would no longer to allow 6 books with negative stereotypes to be published.

Before that, in the last few years, school mentioned they were moving away from Seuss for a variety of reasons including diverse authors.

Also March 2, was Seuss' birthday.

Is he being cancelled? No.

Is he being boycotted? No

Is he being forgotten? No

Will he still be read by millions of kids? Yes

Are conservatives trying to make this part of their BS whining about progress. YES!

I hate to break it to conservatives but culture changes. We aren't watching the same TV shows, listening to the same music as we did 60 years ago. The tent is bigger and more art is being created all the time. We can respect the past without being slaves to it.

End of discussion.

The conservative need for victimhood is so tiresome. Turning me off.

Hey Kitty Girl wrote:

So what exactly am I missing here? Why is the right in an uproar over Biden's speech? Did I miss something?

What you are missing is the power outage in TX and MS. They have to divert attention away from real problems.

This is why you don't give liberals one inch, ever.

They have only one impulse: destroy.

Delicious irony. The party of victims has mastered the art of clueless projection. What special interest group is the most aggrieved by this, that, and the other thing?! Oh my!

What I have seen is liberals whining about Dr. Seuss books and conservatives laughing at their outrage and not wanting to see these books being cancelled/removed.

Hyuk hyuk hyuk wrote:

J Lo wrote:

End of discussion.

The conservative need for victimhood is so tiresome. Turning me off.

Delicious irony. The party of victims has mastered the art of clueless projection. What special interest group is the most aggrieved by this, that, and the other thing?! Oh my!

I’m a conservative so that’s my starting point.

We’re becoming so whiny. Also attack everything that shows empathy to minorities, that’s a turn off for conservative minorities like me.

Pick you battles, this all sounds like noise and hysteria.

just my take wrote:

A few of the older, less known Seuss books have some racial caricatures. Biden's people probably didn't know the extent of it so they played it safe and chose not to mention Seuss yesterday. Fox then made a major issue of this as if it was an overreaction and a complete cancel of Seuss, which it was not.

Number one rule of the internet:

For every action there is an unequal and disproportionately opposite overreaction.

Correct.

J Lo wrote:

Not CNN wrote:

What I have seen is liberals whining about Dr. Seuss books and conservatives laughing at their outrage and not wanting to see these books being cancelled/removed.

Tomorrow is March 4th.

The election was stolen and what are doing about it?

Posting about a cat in a hat on a running message board, be proud.

In Ontario our next election is in June of 2022...sorry!

Not CNN wrote:

J Lo wrote:

End of discussion.

The conservative need for victimhood is so tiresome. Turning me off.

What I have seen is liberals whining about Dr. Seuss books and conservatives laughing at their outrage and not wanting to see these books being cancelled/removed.

This is it exactly. The lack of self awareness and/or denial of liberals is ridiculous. First they make a whiny stink about Dr. Suess books being racist, and then when the sane people tell them how ridiculous they are being they accuse conservatives of being victims, while also complaining that children's books are racist.

Paradoxical wrote:

This is it exactly. The lack of self awareness and/or denial of liberals is ridiculous. First they make a whiny stink about Dr. Suess books being racist, and then when the sane people tell them how ridiculous they are being they accuse conservatives of being victims, while also complaining that children's books are racist.

sure thing dude. The theme of your convention was Cancel Culture. You live for being victims. Many time Trump complained that you were victims and you all cheered. All of your elected officials talk about it instead of helping you.

And the irony is You're mad because you can't be opening racists because THE MARKET has spoken. It has determined that is not acceptable.

but lecture about self-awareness. You might want to learn some.

Had Enough wrote:

Paradoxical wrote:

This is it exactly. The lack of self awareness and/or denial of liberals is ridiculous. First they make a whiny stink about Dr. Suess books being racist, and then when the sane people tell them how ridiculous they are being they accuse conservatives of being victims, while also complaining that children's books are racist.

sure thing dude. The theme of your convention was Cancel Culture. You live for being victims. Many time Trump complained that you were victims and you all cheered. All of your elected officials talk about it instead of helping you.

And the irony is You're mad because you can't be opening racists because THE MARKET has spoken. It has determined that is not acceptable.

but lecture about self-awareness. You might want to learn some.

You're projecting. Go cry some more about being offended by Aunt Jemima and Dr. Seuss in your safe space.

Had Enough wrote:

Paradoxical wrote:

This is it exactly. The lack of self awareness and/or denial of liberals is ridiculous. First they make a whiny stink about Dr. Suess books being racist, and then when the sane people tell them how ridiculous they are being they accuse conservatives of being victims, while also complaining that children's books are racist.

sure thing dude. The theme of your convention was Cancel Culture. You live for being victims. Many time Trump complained that you were victims and you all cheered. All of your elected officials talk about it instead of helping you.

And the irony is You're mad because you can't be opening racists because THE MARKET has spoken. It has determined that is not acceptable.

but lecture about self-awareness. You might want to learn some.

Spot on. There have been multiple threads on Dr Suess the last couple days and it is clear who is throwing the tantrum - the right.

me too it sounds like another case of cancel culture

Hey Kitty Girl wrote:

Can someone explain what I'm missing here?

Biden gave a speech about Reading Day but didn't say anything about canceling Dr. Seuss.

On Fox news, I'm seeing a pretty big blowup about how we are canceling Dr. Seuss, allegedly based on Loudon Valley who then went on to issue a statement saying they were not pulling Dr. Seuss' books from their library.

So what exactly am I missing here? Why is the right in an uproar over Biden's speech? Did I miss something?

You did not.

M AGA and FOX lie andd misrepresent at every turn and the dopey right hillbillies will go to bed believing Joe Biden canceled production of Dr Seuss books.

I guess they are so upset because Dr Seuss is right about the average readin level of dem folk.