Do you get the feeling people are sitting around thinking who they can punk with this stuff? "Let's get people to cancel Winnie the Poo! Oh man, this is awesome! Who is next?"
Pretty funny y'all getting all worked up about a company stopping production on it's own underselling product.
What is "pretty funny" is how you categorize discussion of any topic that is not leftist approved as "getting all worked up". Dr. Seuss is amusing. Talking about Dr. Seuss is fun. Fun is a recreation in which conservatives often indulge. I'll bet you could learn about it on the leftist approved Google, however, Snopes might deny its existence.
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What is "pretty funny" is how you categorize discussion of any topic that is not leftist approved as "getting all worked up". Dr. Seuss is amusing. Talking about Dr. Seuss is fun. Fun is a recreation in which conservatives often indulge. I'll bet you could learn about it on the leftist approved Google, however, Snopes might deny its existence.
What is also "pretty funny", (as in odd), is how Leftists always seem to believe that others are ruled by their emotions like they are.
Originally posted by slicknick: Pretty funny y'all getting all worked up about a company stopping production on it's own underselling product.
QFT. What's on display here is the "y'all" being jerked around by the likes of Fox News and Newsmax. If I were a "ReTrumplican" I guess it would be more agreeable to think about Dr Seuss than about some other recent and current developments. More agreeable, but more "real"--not so much.
Dr Seuss Enterprises will no longer publish 6 (just 6) of his many (more than 60) illustrated children's books.
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Earlier this week, a school district in Virginia made headlines for ALLEGEDLY banning books by Dr. Seuss.
BUT Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), located in Ashburn, said it is NOT BANNING BOOKS by the famous children's author -- it's just discouraging a connection between "Read Across America Day," which was created to get kids excited about reading, and Dr. Seuss' birthday. Both fall on March 2, and have often been "historically connected" to each other, the district said in a statement.
It's not hard to scroll fairly quickly through one or more of these reports and get an actual sense of what it's about.
I guess there could be some particularly "woke" public school districts that have literally banned Dr Seuss. I would look first to San Francisco and Berkeley, for sure. They're not far away from here.
"Tell me about it."
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If post a cartoon of an American with a gun and and burger that is now rascist as it is a stereo type. Watch everything erode from here. Real problem is not enough people say it is nonsense.
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The offending image of one book was African and grass skirts bone in nose. Another was a chinese man drawn with lines as eyes eating with chopsticks. Eventually you will all give in to all the new rules and remain indoors and do as told. Shut up be happy.
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Do you get the feeling people are sitting around thinking who they can punk with this stuff? "Let's get people to cancel Winnie the Poo! Oh man, this is awesome! Who is next?"
Dr Seuss Enterprises, not a part of any level of government, decides it will no longer publish 6 of the more than 60 Dr Seuss books for which they own the publishing rights.
This, coming on the heels of the "castration" of the (former) "Mr" Potato Head.
Dr. Seuss is out... But M.L. Webb has just the thing for you: “The GayBCs,” a way for readers as young as 4 years old to learn every letter in the alphabet in terms of how it relates to LGBT issues.
It’s a REAL book (god help anyone who publicly says this may not be a good thing). They would be publicly FB shamed, accused of “needing sensitivity training” and maybe even lose their job. https://www.westernjournal....aybcs-alphabet-book/
Elmer Fudd is made out to be a fool, he's a dumb, old, bald, fat white guy in the cartoons. Too stupid to catch a damn rabbit! I guess I should be offended.
Keeping things in perspective seems to be a lost art or, would that be too much to ask.
Edited: Oh yeah, I forgot, he's also a gun toting dude intending to kill and most likely eat a bunny, PETA should be all over his ass. Where's the outrage? I watched Looney Tunes as a child. Maybe that's why I don't like rabbits.
Rams
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I think a salient fact here is that the Dr Seuss books have long had a place in the public schools as vehicles for teaching children to read.
Can anyone say the same about the Elmer Fudd character or any of that particular genre of cartoon characters? I think of them as something that a young child could see on TV or on any of the video devices that a young child might have, but not in the context of the public schools and learning to read.
Here's another "backgrounder"
Children's authors refuse Dr. Seuss museum invite because of mural with 'jarring racial stereotype' Updated Jan 07, 2019; Posted Oct 05, 2017 Ray Kelly for Mass (Massachusetts) Live https://www.masslive.com/en...rs_turn_down_in.html
Here's something towards the end of this fairly brief blog post:
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Last week [in 2017? 2019?], Cambridge Public Schools Librarian Liz Phipps Soiero turned down a gift of Dr. Seuss books from First Lady Melania Trump for National Read a Book Day.
"You may not be aware of this, but Dr. Seuss is a bit of a cliche, a tired and worn ambassador for children's literature," Soeiro wrote on Horn Book's Family Reading blog. "Another fact that many people are unaware of is that Dr. Seuss's illustrations are steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes. Open one of his books and you'll see the racist mockery in his art."
Every time I see this unfold here, it points me to WWII. That's where the New World Order placed it's foundation and today it's close to fully completed. We're the nation of child genital/gender mutilation.
Dr. Seuss is out... But M.L. Webb has just the thing for you: “The GayBCs,” a way for readers as young as 4 years old to learn every letter in the alphabet in terms of how it relates to LGBT issues.
It’s a REAL book (god help anyone who publicly says this may not be a good thing). They would be publicly FB shamed, accused of “needing sensitivity training” and maybe even lose their job. https://www.westernjournal....aybcs-alphabet-book/
This is nuts…
Well friends, you got Trouble! In the city by the bay! That's spelled with a T, and that rhymes with G, and that stands for Gay!
I say, you got Trouble! From the city by the bay! But I'll bet you they know how to spell YMCA...
Dr. Seuss is out... But M.L. Webb has just the thing for you: “The GayBCs,” a way for readers as young as 4 years old to learn every letter in the alphabet in terms of how it relates to LGBT issues.
It’s a REAL book (god help anyone who publicly says this may not be a good thing). They would be publicly FB shamed, accused of “needing sensitivity training” and maybe even lose their job. https://www.westernjournal....aybcs-alphabet-book/
This is nuts…
It's amazing how much noise a tiny percentage of sexual deviants can make and how much attention the media gives them.
I think a salient fact here is that the Dr Seuss books have long had a place in the public schools as vehicles for teaching children to read.
Can anyone say the same about the Elmer Fudd character or any of that particular genre of cartoon characters? I think of them as something that a young child could see on TV or on any of the video devices that a young child might have, but not in the context of the public schools and learning to read.
Here's another "backgrounder"
Children's authors refuse Dr. Seuss museum invite because of mural with 'jarring racial stereotype' Updated Jan 07, 2019; Posted Oct 05, 2017 Ray Kelly for Mass (Massachusetts) Live https://www.masslive.com/en...rs_turn_down_in.html
Here's something towards the end of this fairly brief blog post:
That, would be your perspective. I have my own. Other's may not share it and that's alright but, it's still valid. IOWs if you want to find an issue, it's usually easy to do.
Even as an impressionable child growing up in the '50s and '60s watching all of those old cartoons, I knew Pepe Le Pew was an ass. The girls did not like him. If anything, the character taught generations of little boys not to act like that. Little Andy Cuomo must have been out stealing hubcaps while the cartoons were on.
Originally posted by rinselberg: I think a salient fact here is that the Dr Seuss books have long had a place in the public schools as vehicles for teaching children to read.
Can anyone say the same about the Elmer Fudd character or any of that particular genre of cartoon characters? I think of them as something that a young child could see on TV or on any of the video devices that a young child might have, but not in the context of the public schools and learning to read.
I can ! All school and no play, all work and no play, enetertainment is an ion of life.
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Originally posted by rinselberg: Here's another "backgrounder"
Here's something towards the end of this fairly brief blog post:
"You may not be aware of this, but Dr. Seuss is a bit of a cliche, a tired and worn ambassador for children's literature," Soeiro wrote on Horn Book's Family Reading blog. "Another fact that many people are unaware of is that Dr. Seuss's illustrations are steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes. Open one of his books and you'll see the racist mockery in his art."
I think you mean fog post.
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