Does anyone really believe that Dr. Seuss was a racist?
Does anyone really believe that Dr. Seuss was a racist?
I believe his works are representative of the time in which he lived. I doubt anyone back then really thought he was a racist, probably quite the opposite. That said, I think it's probably best that we remove the more questionable works from the canon of children's books.
He was actually very progressive in his views about ham color.
Conservative brains are fucking weird.
nothing more needs to be saidOriginally Posted by BiffTannen
Dr. Seuss was a staple for my kids when they were young. They had his entire library and read them most every night.
So kids can turn on TV in the middle of the afternoon and see every bizarre shit imaginable and it's preferable to cancel Dr. Seuss?
Wow.
At one point of his life his work definitely exhibited racism. It also appears that at some point he made a concerted effort to be better and devote himself to kids books with messages of inclusivity.
What’s next, Walt Disney?
Dr Suess hasn’t been cancelled. 6 books out of his catalog of over 60 publications won’t be produced anymore. Similar to Disney not producing Song the South.
Ibram Kendi’s book helped me start to think outside the binary of a person being racist or not racist. Historically, there have been segregationists, assimilationists, and anti-racists. We are all capable of holding racist beliefs or perpetuating racist ideas. Many proponents of the abolition of slavery held racist beliefs.
+1 moving from a person bring a racist or not to thinking about racist ideas, actions, products, and policies helps move the conversation forward.
Seems like you moved the goalposts there a little bit.
We are all such fucking pussies.
Pretty sure Dr. Seuss was cancelled 4 years ago when his Asian character was deemed racist.
That’s last week’s cancellation. Keep up.
Yep. And putting warnings on Peter Pan and other films with racist caricatures to contextualize them.
Sure. Doesn’t mean we need to publish and celebrate those beliefs.
I am fine with filtering out the racist content of Suess’ catalog. But at the same time I’ll add the The Sneetches story was a really great way to introduce my young children to the concept of racism when they were very young and gave me the opportunity begin anti-racist teaching at a young age. I don’t know much about Seuss personally but either his thinking evolved from the 1930s when he wrote the books now discontinued to the early 60s when he published the Sneetches, or he compartmentalized his distain for Japanese and Jewish people from racism in general.
Birds are real.
I've never heard of any of those six books.
An article from 2012:
Before Dr. Seuss Was Famous He Drew These Sad, Racist Ads
https://www.businessinsider.com/befo...ist-ads-2012-3
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