Originally Posted by
Nomad
IOW they are pandering to the current cause célèbre du jour.
Current attitudes dictate that people get their feelings hurt over every little thing they can conjure up a reason to.
How much farther will it go?
How absurd will it get?
Where does it end?
If you check some of the links, a lot of his stuff was pretty bad.
Acceptable back then in society. Not today. We don't call Germans 'Krauts', we don't call Asians 'Orientals', etc..
I don't think his most graphic stuff made it into children's books, but some of his illustrations were offensive by today's standards.
This isn't about hurt feelings. It's about marketing to as wide a swath of the nation as possible. It was a business decision.
Not unlike those corporations who won't touch trump or his fellow terrorists with a ten foot pole anymore.
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
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