Dr. Seuss, Mr. Potato Head, Miss Piggy, and Their Enemies
The bad news: They’ve all been canceled. The good news: We get to choose if they stay that way.
by Daniel J. Flynn
March 5, 2021, 12:00 AM
Mr. Potato Head figure in Belper, Derbyshire, UK, September 20, 2019 (Simon Annable/Shutterstock.com)
The Cat in the Hat, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Green Eggs and Ham, and Fox in Socks currently rank as the top-five best-sellers on Amazon.
How to interpret this other than the culture flashing a middle finger to cancel culture?
National Read Across America Day, first celebrated more than two decades ago intentionally on the storyteller’s March 2 birthday, suppressed any connection to Dr. Seuss this year. The foundation tasked with preserving his legacy suppressed publication of six of the author’s books, again on his birthday earlier this week. Critics, overlooking the Brown Bar-ba-loots and the yellow Sneetches, complain of a paucity of people of color in the children’s books and of Asians appearing cartoonish in the cartoons accompanying the rhymes. Dr. Seuss responded from the grave by occupying eight of the top 10 and 31 of the top 50 Amazon best-seller spots.
Creepy people, so often fixated on children, elsewhere slapped a warning label for our protection on 18 Muppet Show episodes.
https://spectator.org/dr-seuss-canceled-mr-potato-head-miss-piggy/
