The Left Is Cancelling Dr Seuss

[Dill]

(03-03-2021, 04:04 PM)Nately120 Wrote: People are free to complain, I just think the whole culture wars stuff taking over an entire political party is a bit irksome.  That's the wacky part.  Hasbro changed Mr. Potato head....so vote for our side!  

And I also recall The Lorax being a controversial book and/or banned in places decades ago.  Again, the notion that cancel culture is new or that it is a sign that we've become weak just seems like the most blatant political smokescreen there is.

It's as if there is a general cultural amnesia

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/aug/24/tea-party-banning-books

LGBQT content, anyone? http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10

https://theweek.com/speedreads/732851/republicans-want-ban-books-about-wizards-magic-from-schools-millennials-just-want-horoscopes

To all this one could add the decades of censorship of school history texts.

I will gladly contest most "left" censorship based on "trigger warnings" and the like too.

But there is a breathtaking blindness to claims that some far left cancel culture has struck down Seuss.

Or maybe not. The people making such claims can count on their never being challenged by the people they want to address.