This whole controversy is dumb.
They should have simply ceased publishing those few books and been quiet about it or remade the offending illustrations.
Anyhow, it’s a self censure, not a cancellation of Dr. Seuss.
This whole controversy is dumb.
They should have simply ceased publishing those few books and been quiet about it or remade the offending illustrations.
Anyhow, it’s a self censure, not a cancellation of Dr. Seuss.
I love mankind...it’s people I can’t stand!!
Also, Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian American, please.
10 Things You May Not Know About Dr. Seuss
3. Bootleg gin was responsible for the Dr. Seuss pseudonym.
It certainly wasn’t a scene out of “Animal House,” but on the night before Easter in 1925, the local police chief caught Dartmouth College senior Ted Geisel partying with his friends and a pint of bootleg gin. The dean ousted Geisel as editor-in-chief of the Dartmouth humor magazine, but in what he called a “corny subterfuge,” Ted continued to ink cartoons under several pen names, including “Seuss” and “T. Seuss.” Geisel added the “Dr.” title a few years later.
I love mankind...it’s people I can’t stand!!