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With a pandemic, political and economic crises, is a children's book really the only thing that bothers you?
Catalyst
I think you're exaggerating. The racism in Seuss has been a thing for four years now. "In 2017, a school librarian in Cambridge, Massachusetts, criticised a gift of 10 Dr Seuss books from first lady Melania Trump, saying many of his works were “steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures and harmful stereotypes.”
Read Across America was created in 1998 by the NEA, not the government. Neither Clinton nor bush 43 addressed it at all. If Obama and trump chose to mention Seuss with proclamations in the past, it was their choice. Even Kamala Harris praised Seuss in 2017. None of that changes the fact that certain of his books contain caricatures and stereotypes.
The right is trying to characterize this as a federal holiday or something when it's not. This is an awfully silly thing to get incensed about.
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
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With a pandemic, political and economic crises, is a children's book really the only thing that bothers you?
Catalyst
Since Biden hasn't banned any Seuss books, how does this apply? AFAIK it's a decision by individual libraries whether or not to keep the books in their catalogues.
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
Gone
Yes, and they made this decision under trump and not a peep from the fringe then, now it is the end of the Republic, strange people that have shifting and nonsensical outrages.
christiefan915 (03-06-2021)
Canceled
What will the wokerati have to say about this?
Oderint dum metuant
Bag On My Head
Since Hitler didn't ban any Jewish books, how does this apply? AFAIK it was a decision by individual libraries whether or not to keep the books in their catalogs.
Catalyst
I'm so glad you responded, leggiecrite.
"But saying the books have been “banned,” or that Dr. Seuss has been “canceled,” is a misnomer.
First, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the entertainment company that manages the estate of late children’s book author Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, is the entity that decided to stop licensing and publishing those particular titles in the first place. “These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises explained in a statement released Monday, which coincided with Geisel’s birthday and Read Across America Day.
What’s more, after a Virginia school district went viral for reportedly banning Dr. Seuss books, it clarified in a statement that Dr.Seuss books are still available in its libraries and classes. The school had simply decided to distance Read Across America Day from Dr. Seuss’s birthday due to the “strong racial undertones” in some of the books that he wrote and illustrated."
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/eb...rs-11614896062
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
ThatOwlWoman (03-06-2021)
Bag On My Head
Is that so?
Verified User
By his own family foundation, idiot. 6 books, paranoid pissant.
Find something of real substance to shit yourself over.
cancel2 2022 (03-06-2021)
Canceled
You seem to shit yourself several times a day, is it time for incontinence pants?By his own family foundation, idiot. 6 books, paranoid pissant.
Find something of real substance to shit yourself over.
Canceled
When will they go after Shakespeare? Hold the phone...they already have!
“This Is About White Supremacy And Colonization”: Teacher Group Calls For Shakespeare To Be Removed From Reading Lists
While the House managers were quoting Shakespeare in their case against President Donald Trump last week, it appears that the Bard may soon be less known than “Poor Yorick” who we once knew so well. There is a growing campaign by teachers to drop Shakespeare and other Western literature from classes. One group, #DisruptTexts, insists “This is about White supremacy and colonization.” Lorena German, National Council of Teachers of English Anti-Racism Committee chair and a co-founder of the Disrupt Texts forum, insisted “everything about the fact that he was a man of his time is problematic about his plays. We cannot teach Shakespeare responsibly and not disrupt the ways people are characterized and developed.”
We previously discussed how the portrait of William Shakespeare was removed at the University of Pennsylvania’s English Department as a statement for greater racial sensitivity and diversity. Students are increasingly being deprived of such foundational classics as “Romeo and Juliet,” “Macbeth,” “King Lear” or Richard III. These are works that are not only masterpieces but shaped generations of later works and continue to be referenced in modern writing. Yet, this is a movement that has been building since 1987 when Jesse Jackson led Stanford undergraduates chanting, “Hey, ho, Western Civ has got to go!”
Amanda McGregor, a Minnesota-based librarian wrote in the January issue of School library journal that “Shakespeare’s work is full of problematic and outdated ideas, lots of misogyny, racism, homophobia, class discrimination, anti-Semitism, misogyny”
German insisted that Shakespeare “is not ‘universal’ in a way that other authors are not. He is not more ‘timeless’ than anyone else.” Some teachers advocating replacing Shakespeare with such works as “Hunger Games.”
Shakespeare could have seen his coming when he wrote in As You Like It that “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” However, the exiting of Shakespeare will come at a terrible cost for our students. While Shakespeare appears the new rallying cry for woke teachers, he is “a man more sinned against than sinning.” If he is stripped away from our reading lists, our students will be the poorer for it.
https://jonathanturley.org/2021/02/1...ge-1/#comments
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