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Title: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: rangerrebew on February 27, 2021, 02:18:12 pm
Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’

“In recent years there has been research revealing radical undertones in the books written and the illustrations drawn by Dr. Seuss.”
By  Chrissy Clark
•
Feb 26, 2021   DailyWire.com
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CORAL GABLES, FL - JULY 28: Dr. Seuss' never-before-published book, "What Pet Should I Get?" is seen on display on the day it is released for sale at the Books and Books store on July 28, 2015 in Coral Gables, United States. The manuscript by the author Theodor Geisel is reported to have been written in the 1950s or 1960s and stashed away in his office until his widow found it in 2013.
 

A national educators organization is telling schools to avoid reading Dr. Seuss because the children’s books allegedly have “racial undertones.”

For more than 20 years, March 2 has been recognized as Read Across America Day in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday. The reading recognition day was founded by the National Education Association — the nation’s largest labor union — in 1998. This year’s theme is “Create and Celebrate Diversity.”

Learning for Justice — a left-wing educators group — is demanding that Dr. Seuss be canceled. A prominent Virginia school district has taken marching orders and ordered its schools to avoid “connecting Read Across America Day with Dr. Seuss.” 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/oh-the-places-the-woke-will-go-dr-seuss-canceled-for-racial-undertones?itm_source=parsely-api&utm_source=cnemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=022621-news&utm_campaign=position1
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: rangerrebew on February 27, 2021, 02:20:05 pm
When will they begin to ban the Bible? 0380000
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: jmyrlefuller on February 27, 2021, 03:01:42 pm
Seuss was a white lefty.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: 240B on February 27, 2021, 03:13:10 pm
When will they begin to ban the Bible? 0380000
The Left started that movement decades ago.
However, while the Left wants to ban the Torah and the New Testament, at the same time they are pushing to teach the Koran in public schools.
Nobody has ever accused a Leftist of consistency or rational thought.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Sled Dog on February 27, 2021, 11:39:19 pm
Hmmm....I wonder if University of California, San Diego will riot to demand the name of the Theodore Geisel Library be changed?
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Sled Dog on February 27, 2021, 11:41:31 pm
The Left started that movement decades ago.
However, while the Left wants to ban the Torah and the New Testament, at the same time they are pushing to teach the Koran in public schools.
Nobody has ever accused a Leftist of consistency or rational thought.

The Rodents are perfectly consistent.

They seek to destroy Western Civilization, and our enemies are their allies, or so they're stupid enough to believe.

So they ally themselves with the Religion of Terrorism.  They ally themselves with China and North Korea and Iran.   

Recall that they tried to ally themselves with the National Socialists of Germany, too.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: 240B on February 28, 2021, 07:50:44 pm
The Rodents are perfectly consistent.

They seek to destroy Western Civilization, and our enemies are their allies, or so they're stupid enough to believe.

So they ally themselves with the Religion of Terrorism.  They ally themselves with China and North Korea and Iran.   

Recall that they tried to ally themselves with the National Socialists of Germany, too.
Well of course.
The National Socialist German Workers Party is the culmination of Leftism.
In fact, what we used to know as 'Democrats' have been replaced by them, and they are not shy in saying so.
The former Democrat Party is now the National Socialist American Government Party.
And 90% of American Jews voted for this.
Same thing - different name is all...
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Wingnut on February 28, 2021, 08:04:42 pm
This guy hits the nail on the head about what is happing to us today.

Be warned... the language is not work safe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjUH-V3b1IY
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: dfwgator on February 28, 2021, 08:13:16 pm
Seuss was a white lefty.

And he was very racist in his depictions of Japanese Americans during WWII

(https://ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/976x549/p072bmg6.jpg)
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 28, 2021, 09:00:44 pm
The Left started that movement decades ago.
However, while the Left wants to ban the Torah and the New Testament, at the same time they are pushing to teach the Koran in public schools.
Nobody has ever accused a Leftist of consistency or rational thought.
There's consistency in that: Both groups (The Left and Islam) want Christians and (practicing) Jews eliminated of fully subjugated. YHWH is all about individual freedom, you have to make a choice to be with Him, it is ultimately up to the individual.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Sled Dog on March 02, 2021, 05:23:21 am
When I re-read The Cat In The Hat with my daughters, I discovered that Seuss was telling kids to let total strangers into their house, against their parents' orders, and to ignore the wisdom of others, such as the gold fish, who was the only one in the story that had any sense.

When I re-read Green Eggs and Ham, I realized that Seuss was promoting drug use and endorsing the high-pressure tactics drug dealers use to hook children on heroin and tobacco.

At least Horton Hears a Who had a positive message...
Title: Dr. Seuss Is Canceled: Six Books Will Stop Being Published Because of ‘Racist and Insensitive Imager
Post by: mystery-ak on March 02, 2021, 01:54:23 pm
Dr. Seuss Is Canceled: Six Books Will Stop Being Published Because of ‘Racist and Insensitive Imagery’

Simon Kent 2 Mar 2021

Six popular Dr. Seuss books — including And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo — “will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday,” The Associated Press reported.

“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement marking the late author and illustrator’s birthday.

“Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ catalog represents and supports all communities and families,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises said. The Associated Press reported that the “racist and insensitive” depictions played a part in their removal.

The other books affected are McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, Scrambled Eggs Super!, and The Cat’s Quizzer.

The move to drop the six titles comes just 24-hours after a Virginia school system removed children’s books by Dr. Seuss from its annual Read Across America program over charges they have “strong racial undertones,” as Breitbart News reported.

more
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/02/dr-seuss-is-canceled-six-books-will-stop-being-published-because-of-racist-and-insensitive-imagery/
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: mountaineer on March 02, 2021, 02:16:14 pm
Breaking911  @Breaking911
JUST IN: Pres. Biden has  removed mentions of Dr. Seuss from “Read Across America Day” due to concerns about “racial undertones” in the children’s books -NYP
8:09 AM · Mar 2, 2021

Story at New York Post:
Quote
Biden removes mention of Dr. Seuss from Read Across America Day
By Kenneth Garger
March 2, 2021 | 2:33am

President Biden apparently removed mentions of Dr. Seuss from Read Across America Day amid scrutiny of the alleged “racial undertones” in the whimsical tales for children.

Read Across America Day, started by the National Educational Association in 1998 as a way to promote children’s reading, is even celebrated on the author’s March 2 birthday. ...

But unlike his two predecessors, former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama, Biden did not mention Dr. Seuss. ...

“Of the 2,240 (identified) human characters, there are forty-five characters of color representing 2% of the total number of human characters,” according to a 2019 study from the Conscious Kid’s Library and the University of California that examined 50 of Dr. Seuss’ books.

Last week, a Virginia school district ordered its teachers to avoid “connecting Read Across America Day with Dr. Seuss” because of recent research that has “revealed strong racial undertones” in many of the author’s books.
NY Post (https://nypost.com/2021/03/02/biden-removes-mention-of-dr-seuss-from-read-across-america-day/)

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Title: Re: Dr. Seuss Is Canceled: Six Books Will Stop Being Published Because of ‘Racist and Insensitive Im
Post by: Hoodat on March 02, 2021, 02:18:33 pm
Eventually, the ban will include Horton Hears a Who.

(A person is a person no matter how small)
Title: Re: Dr. Seuss Is Canceled: Six Books Will Stop Being Published Because of ‘Racist and Insensitive Im
Post by: skeeter on March 02, 2021, 02:21:30 pm
Eventually, the ban will include Horton Hears a Who.

(A person is a person no matter how small)

I can't think of anything more demeaning than to be referred to as Thing 1 or Thing 2.
Title: Re: Dr. Seuss Is Canceled: Six Books Will Stop Being Published Because of ‘Racist and Insensitive Im
Post by: Wingnut on March 02, 2021, 02:31:33 pm
The stupidity is mind-numbing.
Title: Re: Dr. Seuss Is Canceled: Six Books Will Stop Being Published Because of ‘Racist and Insensitive Im
Post by: skeeter on March 02, 2021, 02:35:54 pm
The stupidity is mind-numbing.
Mr Potato Head agrees.
Title: Re: Dr. Seuss Is Canceled: Six Books Will Stop Being Published Because of ‘Racist and Insensitive Im
Post by: sneakypete on March 02, 2021, 02:36:56 pm
When Dr.Seuss is hammered by the Race Police for racism/sexism,and just general "ism",you KNOW PC has reached a whole new level.
Title: Re: Dr. Seuss Is Canceled: Six Books Will Stop Being Published Because of ‘Racist and Insensitive Im
Post by: sneakypete on March 02, 2021, 02:37:46 pm
The stupidity is mind-numbing.

@Wingnut

Well,look at the source.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: mountaineer on March 02, 2021, 04:45:25 pm
Someone tell Mooch:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evej4auXcAQ73I3?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on March 02, 2021, 11:24:23 pm
Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec


Uh oh!

Quote
Kamala Harris
@KamalaHarris

Mar 2, 2017

Happy birthday, #DrSeuss! “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

6:05 PM · Mar 2, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1366887321421938691
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: andy58-in-nh on March 02, 2021, 11:30:08 pm
Learning for Justice — a left-wing educators group — is demanding that Dr. Seuss be canceled. A prominent Virginia school district has taken marching orders and ordered its schools to avoid “connecting Read Across America Day with Dr. Seuss.” 


Kone's Corollary: Any political organization that has "justice" in its name is in reality, committed to injustice. 
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Fishrrman on March 02, 2021, 11:35:43 pm
Regardless of the ridiculous brouhaha that presently surrounds him, I never cared for Dr. Seuss when I was young, and I don't care for him now...
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: andy58-in-nh on March 02, 2021, 11:53:01 pm
Regardless of the ridiculous brouhaha that presently surrounds him, I never cared for Dr. Seuss when I was young, and I don't care for him now...

I do not like this Dr. Seuss.
I do not like his verse obtuse
I do not like his silly rhymes
I do not like him anytime,

I tried to read "Green Eggs and Ham"
I struggled through his "Sam I Am"
I could not stand "Cat in the Hat"
For simple words ain't where it's at.

But then I thought: "Perhaps I'm wrong,
For children love to sing his songs
And innocence is these days rare",
And maybe... this man truly cared.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Sled Dog on March 03, 2021, 01:38:22 am
Or maybe this isn't about Dr. Seuss at all.

Perhaps the sales of "Daddy's New Roommate" have slacked off?   How has "Heather Has Two Mommies" been doing?

Maybe the Rodents are just trying to clear the path for their more vile and virulent propaganda crap for earlier entry into young minds?

What will they be recommending parents replace Dr. Seuss with?
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: mountaineer on March 03, 2021, 01:12:03 pm
(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/156736233_10222464282290708_3833946729610578466_o.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=cxwDk5u-GOAAX_fqJ5v&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&tp=7&oh=1542a193dc8ae192940cde866107507d&oe=60667006)
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: mountaineer on March 03, 2021, 04:54:52 pm
Quote
The Cancellation Of Dr. Seuss Should Disturb You, Because You’re Next
America is entering its very own Mao-like Cultural Revolution. The iconoclasm of the left’s culture war isn’t a side effect, it’s the point.
By John Daniel Davidson
March 3, 2021

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. ...
The Federalist (https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/03/the-cancellation-of-dr-seuss-should-disturb-you-because-youre-next/)
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: dfwgator on March 03, 2021, 05:13:10 pm
Someone tell Mooch:

 

And the Reverend Jacksonnnnnnnn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1mqg4C0awA
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: PeteS in CA on March 03, 2021, 06:12:13 pm
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,430330.0.html
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: sneakypete on March 03, 2021, 06:39:32 pm
Regardless of the ridiculous brouhaha that presently surrounds him, I never cared for Dr. Seuss when I was young, and I don't care for him now...

@Fishrrman

You ain't by yourself. Catchy rhymes,but most were pure nonsense,or so obvious why mention them?
Title: Re: Dr. Seuss Is Canceled: Six Books Will Stop Being Published Because of ‘Racist and Insensitive Im
Post by: Sled Dog on March 03, 2021, 08:12:04 pm
Eventually, the ban will include Horton Hears a Who.

(A person is a person no matter how small)

YES.   I forgot that line.   

After all, according to the Rodents, a unborn baby is a mass of cells, an accident of sex, an inconvenience, something to be flushed away, not a living person.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Hoodat on March 03, 2021, 08:46:48 pm
Hmmm....I wonder if University of California, San Diego will riot to demand the name of the Theodore Geisel Library be changed?

Once someone figures it out, yes.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: dfwgator on March 03, 2021, 08:57:29 pm


At least Horton Hears a Who had a positive message...

(https://i.etsystatic.com/8872945/r/il/7d18fd/892197683/il_794xN.892197683_dm05.jpg)
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: mountaineer on March 04, 2021, 07:28:52 pm
No surprise.

EBay is moving to delist the six Dr. Seuss books that were pulled for offensive imagery. “eBay is currently sweeping our marketplace to remove these items.”

Wall St. Journal (https://www.wsj.com/articles/dr-seuss-books-deemed-offensive-will-be-delisted-from-ebay-11614884201?st=l7ilznd4cirlytr&reflink=share_mobilewebshare):
Dr. Seuss Books Deemed Offensive Will Be Delisted From eBay
E-commerce giant says it ‘is currently sweeping our marketplace to remove these items’


Here's a link to the story that doesn't require registration, from Daily Mail (http://-https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9326645/amp/Ebay-BANS-people-reselling-six-offensive-Dr-Seuss.html?__twitter_impression=true).
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Wingnut on March 04, 2021, 08:45:29 pm
New York Public Library Will Not Pull ‘Canceled’ Dr. Seuss Titles, Says It ‘Does Not Censor Books’

https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-public-library-will-not-pull-canceled-dr-seuss-titles-says-it-does-not-censor-books?
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: DefiantMassRINO on March 04, 2021, 09:00:04 pm
When will Fat Albert be banned?
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: catfish1957 on March 04, 2021, 09:08:05 pm
And a couple of years ago a bunch were thinking I had gone mad at my anger of the banning of Gone With the Wind.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Hoodat on March 05, 2021, 07:07:33 pm
(https://i.etsystatic.com/8872945/r/il/7d18fd/892197683/il_794xN.892197683_dm05.jpg)

And now for a musical interlude:

Who's Next (full album)

  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsZiKQ9CEck)
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Wingnut on March 05, 2021, 07:40:54 pm
The WOZ is next.  To White. To anti-midget and witch.  And all those flying Monkey's...yup. you quessed it, anti black imagery.  The Wizard himself represents the KKK.

This must not stand.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 05, 2021, 07:54:58 pm
The WOZ is next.  To White. To anti-midget and witch.  And all those flying Monkey's...yup. you quessed it, anti black imagery.  The Wizard himself represents the KKK.

This must not stand.
It's a slam dunk. Even the wicked witches were persons of color, while the "good" witches were white...
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Wingnut on March 05, 2021, 10:04:58 pm
Mein Kampf gets "woked"

Ebay Pulls 'Mein Kampf' Upon Discovery Hitler Doodled Chinese Man With Chopsticks In Margins


Other major distributors quickly followed suit, with Amazon additionally stopping all sales of chopsticks to people with Asian-sounding names. After seeing what corporations were doing, the Biden administration bravely denounced Hitler’s drawing and said it will be issuing executive orders imposing restrictions on Chinese restaurants so no one will ever be exposed to the harmful sight of an actual Chinese person eating with chopsticks.

Journalists questioned if there might also be problematic text in Mein Kampf, but Biden explained that “unlike a cartoon, putting people in camps and committing genocide is simply a different cultural norm! We’ve got to understand that President Xi needs to bring unity by doing lots of the same things that Hitler did, and we can’t be out there acting like he might order people’s torture while eating with chopsticks. That’s racism, systemic, kung pao! Open Biden!"

https://babylonbee.com/news/ebay-finally-pulls-mein-kampf-upon-discovery-hitler-doodled-chinese-man-with-chopsticks-in-margins?fbclid=IwAR3GOUjxvVWnNr_NUut_tZS4CCpakucPyyBAqBuPhxeYk6TswCZJFVhcO8o
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: sneakypete on March 05, 2021, 10:38:53 pm
I honestly don't understand this. "I" have never even picked up one of his books,never mind read it and became a fan,but it was always MY understanding that the left absolutely LOVED him and considered him a role model for fathers.

Then,all of a sudden,he as became the Left's "Public Enemy Number 1. "

Hell,he has been dead for years,so how could there even be anything new about what he has written,done,or said.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: BassWrangler on March 05, 2021, 11:35:37 pm
This guy hits the nail on the head about what is happing to us today.

Be warned... the language is not work safe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjUH-V3b1IY

That was fantastic.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: BassWrangler on March 05, 2021, 11:37:39 pm
I honestly don't understand this. "I" have never even picked up one of his books,never mind read it and became a fan,but it was always MY understanding that the left absolutely LOVED him and considered him a role model for fathers.

Then,all of a sudden,he as became the Left's "Public Enemy Number 1. "

Hell,he has been dead for years,so how could there even be anything new about what he has written,done,or said.

Dan Bongino frequently makes the point that the Woke cancel culture types run out of victims and so are always broadening the list of "offenses" they'll go after.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Fishrrman on March 05, 2021, 11:37:59 pm
sneakypete wonders:
"Then,all of a sudden,he as became the Left's "Public Enemy Number 1."
Hell,he has been dead for years,so how could there even be anything new about what he has written,done,or said."


Because true marxist/communist doctrine professes a "continual revolution" as man and his society must be forever "remade" towards the marxist ideal.

That's why what may seem to be acceptable to them today will be attacked tomorrow, forging a society "evermore marxist" with each passing day...
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: sneakypete on March 05, 2021, 11:43:15 pm
sneakypete wonders:
"Then,all of a sudden,he as became the Left's "Public Enemy Number 1."
Hell,he has been dead for years,so how could there even be anything new about what he has written,done,or said."


Because true marxist/communist doctrine professes a "continual revolution" as man and his society must be forever "remade" towards the marxist ideal.

That's why what may seem to be acceptable to them today will be attacked tomorrow, forging a society "evermore marxist" with each passing day...

@Fishrrman

Those yahoos need a new hobby. Maybe something like smacking at hornets?
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Hoodat on March 06, 2021, 12:24:57 am
Can You Find All 17 Instances Of Racism On This Page From A Dr. Seuss Book?

March 1st, 2021

Racism is everywhere.

But nowhere is racism more blatant than in the books of well-known racist Dr. Seuss. His pages were literally dripping with racism, or maybe that was just the barbecue sauce for our chicken nuggies. Even so, barbecue sauce might be racist too, now that we think of it.

Take this Dr. Seuss page out of Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!. It looks harmless, yeah? Well, you're just showing your internalized racism, because there are literally 17 different examples of racism packed into this illustration. Come on a journey with us as we explore them all.

(https://media.babylonbee.com/img/articles/article-8115-art603d314544818.jpg)


1. The giant orange beast is obviously a reference to Donald Trump. This glorifies white supremacy and Nazism, as Seuss was alluding to his allegiance to the bad orange man.

(https://media.babylonbee.com/img/articles/article-8115-art603d531b8896e.jpg)


2. The pink boot squashing the poor little dude glorifies fascism. A little too obvious there, Fuhrer Seuss.

(https://media.babylonbee.com/img/articles/article-8115-art603d4ecaf2a93.jpg)


3. The text implies it's OK to go to the Right. Like, COME ON! In a children's book?

(https://media.babylonbee.com/img/articles/article-8115-art603d4f66ea02d.jpg)


4. Zoom in on the tuba. Keep zooming. Keeeeep zooming: IT'S A TINY HITLER, OH MY GOODNESS! Hard to believe Seuss snuck this one past the editors.

(https://media.babylonbee.com/img/articles/article-8115-art603d339741da8.jpg)


5. The smoke coming from the machine glorifies the racist, classist hierarchies of capitalism that harm the environment and disproportionally people of color. And he made the smoke multiple colors -- just one more slap in the face to POCs.

(https://media.babylonbee.com/img/articles/article-8115-art603d4fc8dd87c.jpg)


6. The page is rectangular, encouraging readers to think inside the box of capitalist propaganda and not become woke to the struggle of the classes. Straight lines and boundaries are signs of non-wokeness. Plus, the shape is eerily similar to the shape of a Nazi flag!

(https://media.babylonbee.com/img/articles/article-8115-art603d50bd8ad65.jpg)


7. These four men have Hitler mustaches. Seuss was brainwashing kids to worship Hitler! How can we have these books at schools?

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Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Sled Dog on March 06, 2021, 06:41:11 am
When will they begin to ban the Bible? 0380000

It's not really allowed in public schools anymore.

I remember my Earth Science teacher taking a book from his desk and reading a passage, and then explaining how, with the right interpretation, the Book of Genesis conforms to modern theories of the earth's formation.

I can't see that happening today without some fascist Rodent pitching a bloody fit and cancelling the teacher.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Sled Dog on March 06, 2021, 06:51:58 am
Dan Bongino frequently makes the point that the Woke cancel culture types run out of victims and so are always broadening the list of "offenses" they'll go after.

That's not what the Rodents are doing.

The Rodents are undermining the foundations of American society, and they've truly breached the cofferdams, but they will continue to dig until every miniscule vestige of the great culture the Rodents despise has been erased from human memory.

It's not that they've run out of targets, it's that they've succeeded in bringing down the primary targets and are now working on secondary and tertiary opportunities.

Today's school kids never heard of Mark Twain...and they believe Thomas Jefferson's only imprint on history is his alleged flaming racism, etc.

They've destroyed math and science in the US, the next generation of high school graduates will be almost completely illiterate in mathematics...this started when the moronic teachers started letting the students use calculators for algebra problems.   They're functionally illiterate already.  Since they've already made Moby Dick inaccessible to them...how many of them think it's a porn novel...by the sheer fact that it's damn difficult to read, they're going to go after the easier targets.

Seuss is fun to read.   Reading can't be fun for small children, they might get the urge to turn off the drivel on TV and read something the Rodents don't approve of, like the Federalist Papers.

The Rodents will be chipping away until not even Ozymandias' skull is left.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: sneakypete on March 06, 2021, 09:09:23 am

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It's not really allowed in public schools anymore.

@Sled Dog

And that is a good thing.

Unless maybe you think allowing the Koran and the books of other superstitions into public schools is also a good thing?

Because that IS the way it works. If one is allowed,ALL must be allowed.


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I can't see that happening today without some fascist Rodent pitching a bloody fit and cancelling the teacher.

You mean as opposed "fascist Rodent pitching a bloody fit and cancelling the teacher" for promoting the Christian religion?
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: sneakypete on March 06, 2021, 09:14:46 am
That's not what the Rodents are doing.

The Rodents are undermining the foundations of American society, and they've truly breached the cofferdams, but they will continue to dig until every miniscule vestige of the great culture the Rodents despise has been erased from human memory.

It's not that they've run out of targets, it's that they've succeeded in bringing down the primary targets and are now working on secondary and tertiary opportunities.

Today's school kids never heard of Mark Twain...and they believe Thomas Jefferson's only imprint on history is his alleged flaming racism, etc.

They've destroyed math and science in the US, the next generation of high school graduates will be almost completely illiterate in mathematics...this started when the moronic teachers started letting the students use calculators for algebra problems.   They're functionally illiterate already.  Since they've already made Moby Dick inaccessible to them...how many of them think it's a porn novel...by the sheer fact that it's damn difficult to read, they're going to go after the easier targets.

Seuss is fun to read.   Reading can't be fun for small children, they might get the urge to turn off the drivel on TV and read something the Rodents don't approve of, like the Federalist Papers.

The Rodents will be chipping away until not even Ozymandias' skull is left.

@Sled Dog

I'm with ya on ALL of that.

Religions are a different story,though. Teaching religin in schools,REGARDLESS of the flavor,means teaching dogma,which means indoctrination because there is only "one true religion" according to the followers of THAT religion.

Since you can't teach it as anything other than dogma,you shouldn't be allowed to teach it in public schools.

Besides,teaching religious dogma is the job of the charlatans that push it each Saturday or Sunday under formal settings.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: BassWrangler on March 06, 2021, 05:29:40 pm
@Sled Dog

I'm with ya on ALL of that.

Religions are a different story,though. Teaching religin in schools,REGARDLESS of the flavor,means teaching dogma,which means indoctrination because there is only "one true religion" according to the followers of THAT religion.

Since you can't teach it as anything other than dogma,you shouldn't be allowed to teach it in public schools.

Besides,teaching religious dogma is the job of the charlatans that push it each Saturday or Sunday under formal settings.

But the public schools are already teaching religion: the religion of the totalitarian, leftist state.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: sneakypete on March 06, 2021, 05:50:49 pm
But the public schools are already teaching religion: the religion of the totalitarian, leftist state.

@BassWrangler

That has to be the lamest and oldest excuse in the books.

"Deys asrewin stuff up,sew hit must be ok for me to screw it up more!"
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: BassWrangler on March 06, 2021, 05:57:21 pm
@BassWrangler

That has to be the lamest and oldest excuse in the books.

"Deys asrewin stuff up,sew hit must be ok for me to screw it up more!"

Well, your arguing against religious indoctrination while allowing religious indoctrination. The leftism being taught in the schools meets all the criteria of a religion.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: sneakypete on March 06, 2021, 06:01:52 pm
Well, your arguing against religious indoctrination while allowing religious indoctrination. The leftism being taught in the schools meets all the criteria of a religion.

@BassWrangler

It does in a general sense,but not formally. For example,they get no special tax breaks or national holidays.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: BassWrangler on March 06, 2021, 06:17:00 pm
@BassWrangler

It does in a general sense,but not formally. For example,they get no special tax breaks or national holidays.

Of course they do. They have the entire state working for them.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: sneakypete on March 06, 2021, 06:56:47 pm
Of course they do. They have the entire state working for them.

@BassWrangler

You know better than that. You are just playing "It's the Christians against the evil Heathens Game".
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 07, 2021, 08:21:54 am
@Sled Dog

I'm with ya on ALL of that.

Religions are a different story,though. Teaching religin in schools,REGARDLESS of the flavor,means teaching dogma,which means indoctrination because there is only "one true religion" according to the followers of THAT religion.

Since you can't teach it as anything other than dogma,you shouldn't be allowed to teach it in public schools.

Besides,teaching religious dogma is the job of the charlatans that push it each Saturday or Sunday under formal settings.
Oh, I disagree. If you want to understand a culture, any culture, you need to understand their religious dimensions as well, simply because a great deal of that culture will be tied directly to that. The whole thing with the Japanese worshiping their emperor ties in with that, the founders' ideas of unalienable Rights, everything from god kings to oracles at Delphi all tie in with that religious view held by a people. So teach them all, from atheism to
Zoroastrianism, so people can better see where cultures are coming from.

That way, when we go to war with whomever, we'll understand if they think they are coming back again, getting 72 virgins, going to eternal bliss, Valhalla, or whether their demise will end in nothingness. You can't tell me that doesn't affect how their people will act.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 07, 2021, 08:22:45 am
@BassWrangler

It does in a general sense,but not formally. For example,they get no special tax breaks or national holidays.
Right. They get 'history months' and subsidies instead.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: sneakypete on March 07, 2021, 01:14:43 pm
Oh, I disagree. If you want to understand a culture, any culture, you need to understand their religious dimensions as well, simply because a great deal of that culture will be tied directly to that. The whole thing with the Japanese worshiping their emperor ties in with that, the founders' ideas of unalienable Rights, everything from god kings to oracles at Delphi all tie in with that religious view held by a people. So teach them all, from atheism to
Zoroastrianism, so people can better see where cultures are coming from.

That way, when we go to war with whomever, we'll understand if they think they are coming back again, getting 72 virgins, going to eternal bliss, Valhalla, or whether their demise will end in nothingness. You can't tell me that doesn't affect how their people will act.

@Smokin Joe

I agree with you in principle,but there are so many different religions that if we were to do that,there would be no time to teach math,sciences,history,etc,etc,etc.

Not that we teach much of that in public schools,as it is. Sadly,public education is a hit or miss thing as it is.

Better to let the pros from the various faiths teach it on their Holy Day to the ones that want it.

Yes,that does violate your common sense suggestion,but there is no other practical solution.

Besides,it is not the  place or obligation of government to see to the religious education/indoctrination of children. That is the job of their parents and what,if any the children get is their choice to make.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: sneakypete on March 07, 2021, 01:22:26 pm
Right. They get 'history months' and subsidies instead.

@Smokin Joe

Really? This is the first time I have heard about that. Then again,I have no children,so I am not really up on much that is going on in public schools.

I know that sort of thing goes on in places like Catholic Schools,but having it happen in public schools is new to me.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 07, 2021, 02:43:10 pm
@Smokin Joe

Really? This is the first time I have heard about that. Then again,I have no children,so I am not really up on much that is going on in public schools.

I know that sort of thing goes on in places like Catholic Schools,but having it happen in public schools is new to me.
Since there has been an ethnocentric 'history month' in public schools, the majority of the living or recently deceased people focused on were often affiliated with the Communist Party. Others noted commonly were in rebellion with the status quo, and sometimes that was a commendable thing, but the emphasis was on the rebellion aspect, not so much what they were rebelling against, nor how that was in conflict with the founding principles of this nation or others. Short shrift was given to those who made scientific and medical advances, from the developments of George Washington Carver, to the discoveries of Dr. Charles Drew, whose efforts in hematology led to blood typing, transfusions, and countless lives saved. That historical focus only partitions history into a hodgepodge of events and dates, instead of a more coherent picture. History should be taught as a synchronous timeline, showing the interrelationships in a temporal setting, tying in developments in technology (often linked with religion early on), and not judging the actions of those in the past by today's standards, but teaching the mindset of the era in which those actions took place as well as what happened. As one option, History should be a four year run in High School, along with math, science, and in a decent curriculum, past English composition, literature courses should mirror the timeline of the history classes to bolster the concepts of the mindsets of the era. Everything would tie together.

The alternate track would lead into trades rather than academics, and would include English writing, reading comprehension, math and science, and some basic skills would be taught to both groups, to ground the academic track in reality a bit, and to aid the trade track students in the founding and operation of businesses.

Vlad Tepys' actions with sticks and enemies take on a different meaning when facing the Ottoman horde, and someone taught as a horroshow becomes the real life Colonel Kurtz of his day, stemming the tide of invasion. In the high school I attended my last two years, we did have a world religion course, which showed how the mindsets of the various civilizations were affected by the religious beliefs which were dominant in their place and time, but allowed us to compare and contrast those belief systems across the world and through time. Yes, that was a Catholic School, unafraid to teach those other belief systems, not like the godless Marxists in the Public School system, who believe "religion is the opiate of the masses".

Obviously, they were off; for some masses, it's more like Meth.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: sneakypete on March 07, 2021, 03:27:41 pm

Vlad Tepys' actions with sticks and enemies take on a different meaning when facing the Ottoman horde, and someone taught as a horroshow becomes the real life Colonel Kurtz of his day, stemming the tide of invasion. In the high school I attended my last two years, we did have a world religion course, which showed how the mindsets of the various civilizations were affected by the religious beliefs which were dominant in their place and time, but allowed us to compare and contrast those belief systems across the world and through time. Yes, that  a Catholic School, unafraid to teach those other belief systems, not like the godless Marxists in the Public School system, who believe "religion is the opiate of the masses".



@Smokin Joe

A tip of the hat to your Catholic High School for that one! They were obviously biased towards Catholicism,but so what? That was to be expected by all. The important factor is that they DID inform other faiths of  the political as well as the human implications of national religions,which would also obviously apply to Catholicism if any student bothered to think at all.

It should be obvious to even a stone that any nation ruled by ANY religion is not a "free people and free nation" because the only voices heard will be the voices of the religious leaders. They are,in fact religious police states.

The Founding Fathers of America obviously understood this well because they grew up in that sort of political atmosphere and saw the negative effects it had. It was this understanding that caused them to place so much importance of the separation of church and state. Which in itself was a TRULY courageous thing for anyone to do at that time.

Sadly,it is STILL a tremendously courageous thing to suggest in far too many nations of today. It can not only cost you your job and position in life,it can cause you to lose your life and even the lives of your family in some cases.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 07, 2021, 03:41:57 pm
@Smokin Joe

A tip of the hat to your Catholic High School for that one! They were obviously biased towards Catholicism,but so what? That was to be expected by all. The important factor is that they DID inform other faiths and the political implications of national religions,which would also obviously apply to Catholicism if any student bothered to think at all.

It should be obvious to even a stone that any nation ruled by ANY religion is not a "free people and free nation" because the only voices heard will be the voices of the religious leaders. They are,in fact police states.

The Founding Fathers of America obviously understood this well because they grew up in that sort of political atmosphere and saw the negative effects it had. It was this understanding that caused them to place so much importance of the separation of church and state. Which in itself was a TRULY courageous thing for anyone to do at that time.

Sadly,it is STILL a tremendously courageous thing to suggest in far too many nations of today. It can not only cost you your job and position in life,it can cause you to lose your life and even the lives of your family in some cases.
Part of their mission was to teach the Catholic faith. Yes, that was an emphasis, but affected the development of the Byzantine and Roman Empires, and the societies which followed. Its excesses, especially when viewed through the lens of science are obvious, and still, those excesses of religious zeal (fervor, or worse) helped shape the founders' principles in crafting our Constitution and Bill of Rights. They also provided the moral framework which was the lens through which those excesses were viewed, and that had a significant impact on not only jurisprudence but law itself. (Thou shalt not bear false witness becomes known as a charge of Perjury, for instance.) Consider that slavery is mentioned often in the Bible, and it becomes a normal part of a culture, only overcome by the concept that all men are created equal and we are endowed by our creator with unalienable Rights.

Yet those same people saw the need to limit the religious excesses of the past, and while ensuring the Right to worship (or not) as one pleases, made certain that that would not become a test for holding office. That separation is a thin, short, chain link fence, not a massive barrier, and concepts flow back (and forth) easily enough if they are small enough to not overwhelm the more secular mission of government. When those duties are separated, the religious and governing, the two can influence one another without controlling one another, and all is good. When Government or religion invades the provenance of the other, mayhem ensues and problems arise. It is not the domain of government to decide who can or cannot get married, nor is it the domain of government to impose its beliefs on the religious sects which have their own rules in that area. Let those who wish to be married seek that appropriate venue, either sacred or secular, without imposing their personal beliefs on the conduct of a religious order in contravention of the basic beliefs of that religion. Don't like it? Build your own church and take your chances with The Almighty, according to your beliefs. Government has legitimate no say in that, provided your practices do not cross the lines into what is generally accepted as criminal behaviour.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: jafo2010 on March 07, 2021, 06:26:03 pm
Books and next will come movies.  Those of you that love Gone with the Wind, best get a copy, for there will be hundreds of movies permanently destroyed.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 08, 2021, 03:12:36 am
Books and next will come movies.  Those of you that love Gone with the Wind, best get a copy, for there will be hundreds of movies permanently destroyed.
We should start a list, but they might use it as a guide. GWTW was so epic that our black History teacher took the entire class to the movie theater to see it in junior high.
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: BassWrangler on March 08, 2021, 03:14:11 am
We should start a list, but they might use it as a guide. GWTW was so epic that our black History teacher took the entire class to the movie theater to see it in junior high.

I would have said it could be a good investment, but eBay banned sales of the Seuss books...
Title: Re: Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’
Post by: Hoodat on March 08, 2021, 03:23:22 am
They better not mess with these:

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