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Canceling Dr. Seuss Means Bad News for the Rest of Us

Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the John Locke Foundation. The author of this post is Mitch Kokai.

    John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist explores the latest instance of kooky cancel culture. It involves a beloved children's author.

  • Dr. Seuss has been cancelled. Some of his work has been deemed racist, and we can't have that. On Tuesday, the entity that oversees the estate of Theodor Seuss Geisel announced it would no longer publish six of Geisel's books because they "portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong."
  • Among the works now deemed unfit for children are Geisel's first book under the pen name Dr. Seuss, "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," published in 1937, and the much-beloved, "If I Ran the Zoo," published in 1950. The former depicts a "Chinaman" character and the latter shows two men from "the African island of Yerka" in native garb.
  • There's not much point in quibbling over whether these and other such illustrations in the condemned Dr. Seuss books are in fact racist or bigoted, or whether Geisel held racist or xenophobic views. By all accounts he was a liberal-minded and tolerant man who hated Nazis and, as a political cartoonist, mocked the antisemitism that was all-too-common in America during World War II.
  • He was also a man of his era. Later in life, he regretted some of his political work during the war that stereotyped Japanese Americans, which, as jarring as it might seem today, nevertheless reflected attitudes that were commonplace at the time.
  • But context and nuance don't factor into the inexorable logic of the woke left, which flattens and refashions the past into a weapon for the culture wars of the present. What's important to understand is that this isn't simply about banning six Dr. Seuss books. All of Geisel's work is, in the judgment of left-wing academia, an exercise in "White supremacy, paternalism, conformity, and assimilation."






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