That is wrong, the books that will no longer be published are:
“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.”
On Edit: Ninjaed!
I think that is a big part of the perception problem. People see Dr. Seuss and they think Cat in the Hat and “Green Eggs and Ham” and wonder what the fuss is about. Most probably don’t recall the titles that are actually effected and project the treatment to the non-controversial titles thinking people are going too far.
Ah. I’d read that sales on GHAH had spiked following “the ban” and thought it was included in the six. Turns out none of the six are available from any online retailer.
That’s probably from Fox News viewers owning the libs by buying an inoffensive book from a “woke” copyright owner. With any luck, they’ll burn the books and buy more!
So basically the publisher, who made this decision is being rewarded for their decision. Perfect.
Who is buying these books could go either way. Conservatives trying to protest the decision and Progressives trying to support the decision could BOTH conceivably be buying other Seuss books.
Sorry, those war era comics I cant agree are racist. Those guys were horrible war criminals that attacked us, and wanted to end American and democracy. Mussolini, Hitler, Goebbels etc are also shown in a similar nasty caricature . When your foes are out and out evil you get to show them as subhuman even- if you like- since of course the leaders were inhuman at least.
The British showed “the Hun” as despicable ape like creatures- racism?
We can debate whether or not those works are appropriate today without calling him a racist.
He wasnt. Period. End of story.
If you want to call him a racist, I wont bother debating with you.
Memes going around showing Michelle Obama reading Green Eggs and Cat in the Hat to kids, thus that proves they arent racist. 
But those books havent been canceled.
I don’t think Germans are considered a different race than the English, but it was definitely bigotry. There was certainly anti-German bigotry in the UK, well after the war. The Major in Fawlty Towers, and Basil himself, illustrated that cultural bigotry that was still hanging around in the early 70s. The show was making fun of that bigotry, of course.
Oh, okay. I have not done so. So I guess that we can continue? Unless you want to make more unsubstantiated accusations as to what I have and have not said.
But that wasn’t the question. The question was whether or not his depiction of other ethnicities was racist. Hint: They absolutely were.
Are you going to period end of story that as well?
I didn’t, but if you want to insist that I did, then you can go ahead and debate that strawman over there, as it seems to be more to your level.
You can… but that would be a racist depiction. It may be “justified” as they are your enemy, but the entire point of that is to dehumanize them to make it easier to hate them.
Errr… yes. That would be very racist indeed.
You seem to have this weird definition of racism that, if it was justifiable racism, then it wasn’t racism at all.
The only problem with that, is that all racism is justifiable to a racist.
And his cartoons with racist depictions of American citizens? Were those justified because the people were pending war criminals?
You cant differentiate from something that was not racist at it’s time but is uncomfortable stereotyping today? Dont overuse the word “racist”. Those were not racist when they were done. Seuss was not a racist. Nothing his did was racist then, but some is certainly improper today.
Saying they were racist connotes there were racist even then, and by correlation Seuss was .
I dont accept any of those drawing are racist. Improper, cringeworthy stereotypes today- certainly.
If you took even a couple of seconds to think about this statement, you could surely see how troublesome it is.
War propaganda is just that- war propaganda. Seuss was doing his part as a patriotic American in the War against Evil, and make no mistake- WW2 was very much a War vs Evil.
Much is kosher when you are fighting a war vs that sort of evil.
Sure, uh-huh. I’ll stand by my paraphrase, thanks.
I’m sure he has similar cartoons about German Americans that you’re ready to post, right?
And the pictures in the post directly above yours are not racist?
Really? That’s… I don’t even know.
And that’s not true, at all. Someone can do something racist without actually being racist. They can be ignorant, or they can believe that dehumanizing a group of people is in the best interests of national security, but their act is still a racist act.
Right, it may have been justifiable racism for the time, but it was still extremely racist.
No you don’t. Not and still claim any moral high ground.
Of fucking course it was. Although that was WWI.
Did DrDeth notice that the linked cartoons are anti-Japanese-American? These aren’t even cartoons aimed at Japan. They are targeting Californians. And DrDeth calls these people “evil.”
I said it earlier in this thread: Anti-Asian racism gets a huge pass in the US.