Cancel Culture Takes Out Dr Seuss, Sort Of (Page 9/12)
Hudini MAR 12, 03:34 AM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

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These Cancel Culture-obsessed wackos are all about politics as performance art instead of governing.




You just described Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to a T.
cliffw MAR 12, 08:04 AM

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Originally posted by theBDub:
A business decides not to sell one of their products, after receiving virtually no social blowback, and the Right calls it cancel culture. Color me surprised.



I will color you naive.
cliffw MAR 12, 08:15 AM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:
Dr. Seuss Enterprises, working with a panel of experts, including educators, reviewed our catalog of titles and made the decision last year [2020] to cease publication and licensing of the following titles: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, If I Ran the Zoo, McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, Scrambled Eggs Super!, and The Cat’s Quizzer. These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.



I will color you naive also.

Dr. Seuss Enterprises, working with a panel of unnamed experts, including educators (leftists).


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Originally posted by rinselberg:
I see people framing this as a "thing" that's suddenly being caused or pushed by liberals and progressives.



Since Dr. Seuss Enterprises ceased publication and licensing of the affected titles, the prices have skyrocketed for them. Capitalism would have one think to bring them back and rake in the money.
sourmash MAR 12, 09:07 AM
To Mr. R.

You'll be credible when you can quote where I said Al, Jesse or BLM "control", Mr Alinskite. Companies are in a panic afraid that arsonists, assailants and extortionists will target them.

Per your copy and paste, an outside group was advising. I'm positive it contained non-White participants to advise of the offensive triggering portrayals. The panel was probably paid to advise, so is that considered a payoff not to picket...because we want to appease you on the front end?

Now let's imagine what would happen if the publisher didn't follow the direction of the panel. At the least bad publicity would result, and there's your opening for marches and shreiks of racism. And extortion payments. Investors want dividends not losses.

We all know that insiders in a corporation will sabotage employers by leaking unofficial or official memos and emails between people which will be presented as official policy and the result has resulted in Jesse and Al marching with Twauna Brawley demanding action, criminal charges and/or money.

So corporations want to appease on the front end. They have now invented diversity director positions as payoff, with hefty benefit packages. Think about the tension and divide that creates in the workplace. Imagine walking by one of these people who is holding a magic card in their pocket to be used at a whim.

Explain away.the historical proof of it happening, and consider Jesse Smollett with Chlamydia Harris supporting his claims. Even Michelle Obama got involved in running deflectionit appears.

It's an easy read.
https://www.news.com.au/fin...f31eac7e037cd836aa33

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cliffw MAR 12, 10:37 AM
To Mr. R.

You'll be credible when you stop trying to put everyday language in to lawyer / politician jargon. You are confusing enough. Are you trying to distract that fact with your reach of words ?
williegoat MAR 12, 10:46 AM

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Originally posted by sourmash:

To Mr. R.

You'll be credible when you can quote where I said Al, Jesse or BLM "control", Mr Alinskite.



Rinselberg quoted the publisher, then posed a question. Within that question, he paraphrased your vague conjecture.
In this instance, he was both credible and clearly understood.
sourmash MAR 12, 10:59 AM

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Originally posted by williegoat:

Rinselberg quoted the publisher, then posed a question. Within that question, he paraphrased your vague conjecture.
In this instance, he was both credible and clearly understood.



False as usual, willie. He's smarter than you, but just as biased. Thank you for agreeing that he can't find a quote but can only distort to deflect.
2.5 MAR 12, 02:05 PM

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Originally posted by theBDub:

It takes about two minutes to see that the publishing company did their own internal review and made this decision themselves.




On the other hand, self censorship is probably the most desired form of censorship by those who desire censorship.



Fear.

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2.5 MAR 12, 03:08 PM
The shortest vid I possibly will ever post.

One risk of self censorship for the individual.


and then others


Learn from the mistakes of others, and from history.

It isn't just governments directly over-reaching. Sad thing is if the people don't think for themselves (which they are not taught or incentivised to do) they may become their own enslavers more than symbolically.

Deeper?

They are afraid of students "dealing with speech"...when did this babying garbage start?

Just research self censorship - why , how, what is the result

If you self censor yourself, think of the twisted learning experience your kids might have.
If a society self censors itself, think of the twisted learning experience the kids in it might have.

Another concern regarding censorship is revision of history.
rinselberg MAR 12, 05:47 PM
People here on Pennock's are making this way more complicated than it actually is.

As a private sector company, Dr Seuss Enterprises is free to continue publishing these books, and equally free to decide to stop publishing these books.

Dr Seuss Enterprises is also free to seek guidance and free to accept or decline that guidance from any person or group that has guidance to offer about these books.

House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy went on YouTube (I guess) to publish a video of himself reading from one of the Dr Seuss books (but not any of the 6 books that are newly discontinued.)

If Kevin McCarthy has a serious "beef" about this, he will just have to find other children's books that he likes, or find someone to create new children's books that he likes. Maybe he could author new children's books himself.

This whole thing is Much Ado About Nothing.

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