What the NY Times covers isn't the criteria for significance or insignificance. It's a story on many outlets that doesn't mean that Suess' family deciding they don't want offensive images published and others agree the images were offensive as did Dr. Seuss himself. He's still a part of education and well loved children's book author in places both liberal and conservative. What is most insignificant of all is the faux outrage and people falsely claiming Dr. Seuss is being cancelled.
The people blaming "cancel culture" for a publisher deciding to pull its own books are showing just how exactly ignorant they are about everything surrounding "cancel culture".
well until that happy day arrives, perhaps this will keep you amused in the meantime https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/2299/7307/103313.pdf?sequence=1
Damn. Dr. Seuss found a way to make the left happy while also conning conservatives out of money. He should run this country.
there is now a BannedSeuss website that will have scans of the books no longer being published. https://bannedseuss.com
Do you think there is any justification for the author/owner of a text to make the decision not to publish it based on their judgement that it contains offensive content?
Folks who think anything was cancelled are missing the point. For the record. I want all book to available. I don't like removing things even if they are offensive. I would rather learn from them. But it was a decision by the publishers. It was in line with Seuss' own thoughts and isn't really an issue.
This is pure self created outrage. No one before the publisher decided to stop publishing certain books was giving two ***** about this outside of some very niche blogs.
the ordinary justification of "this isn't making us any money in sales" is sufficient to allow a book to go out of print. Arguing "this is offensive to some readers" is not sufficient justification to effecting a ban by allowing a book to go out of print. Otherwise we're on the road to banning the Usual Suspects: To Kill a Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn, and the collected works of George Carlin.
