# And to Think I can't See it on Mulberry Street -- Six Seuss Books retired for racism

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**Created:** [March 2, 2021, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-think-i-cant-see-it-on-mulberry-street-six-seuss-books-retired-for-racism/934113 "2021-03-02T14:09:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-think-i-cant-see-it-on-mulberry-street-six-seuss-books-retired-for-racism/934113/187 "2021-03-04T17:35:35Z")

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> [@octopus](#):
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> But I don’t think caricatures of different groups, in the style Dr. Seuss did, are inherently racist.

Doesn’t matter what you don’t think. They are.

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> There are folks who live in the jungle.

Even “jungle” is a loaded word. Of course, when you say it, the “bunny” is silent, I’m sure…

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> They do dress and adorn themselves drastically differently.

There’s “drastically different” (talk about Othering 🙄 ) and then there’s this straight-up racist shit that doesn’t represent any real Africans:  
[![](https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2021/03/yerta.jpg) ](https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2021/03/yerta.jpg)

> [@octopus](#):
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> Is that a problem? It’s problematic but not…

Cognitive dissonance much?

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