These books aren’t exactly Seuss’ greatest hits. My WAG is that the revenue they were bringing in wasn’t enough to justify the effort of revamping the art.
Yes, it certainly is. 
What’s the context of that panel?
It’s a group of four panels about a store where rich people can buy annoyances: a needle in a haystack, a fly in your ointment, a monkey wrench.
It took me years to track down “Der Fuhrer’s Face.” I finally found it in a collection of Disney wartime cartoons. Among other things the collection included “Victory Through Air Power” and instructional films like how to flush rivet an airplane fuselage.
Our local cartoon show host had a reputation for being snarky. Their collection of cartoons included a lot of WB, even the wartime cartoons. In a particularly egregious one Bugs Bunny posed as an ice cream man and gave away hand grenades on Popsicle sticks to an eager crowd of Japanese soldiers. They all run out of frame and there is a series of explosions. One comes back in a burnt, torn uniform with the stick, “Rook! Rook! I win!” – it had a logo imprinted on it. Bugs gives him two grenades on a stick and there’s a bigger explosion before the iris out.
On the cut to the live portion the host is shaking his head. “Somebody’s gotta tell Bugs. The war is over!”
Are we really going to have to get into a thing about whether demeaning grotesque racist caricatures have to be intentionally demeaning grotesque racist caricatures?
Sadly, we’re already past that point.
I didn’t say that. I certainly don’t think the caricatures should get a pass today, regardless of Seuss’s original intent. I’m just saying that they are consistent with the way he drew other “exotic” ethnic groups. The drawing of the Russian is just as offensive as many of the others.
The Alaskan Eskimo can. There are also the Yupik and Chukchi. All three are called “Eskimo” and they are just fine with that.
OK:
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your balls*
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up like it’s St Paul
…
*that’s the way we used to sing it anyway…
I see stereotyping but not racism in the Suess books. It’s being shown as something different but it is not ridiculing it or portraying it as negative.
The Jerry Lewis routine in Breakfast at Tiffiany’s is pretty messed up; I would call that racist as it is very negative.
Yes I agree. But some of those stereotypes are cringeworthy. Not racism, but outdated.
[nitpick] Actually, that’s Mickey Rooney. [/nitpick]
George Peppard also did a terrible job of playing a gay man in B@T…
Mickey Rooney was doing a Jerry Lewis routine? 
Sure. They also don’t look like geta, which are what Seuss drew.
The issue isn’t with using it for a place or something. The issue is using it for people. And no-one’s using it for Bostonians.
Well, no. North Dakota is different from South Dakota, but neither considers the other as “exotic.” “Exotic” is a lot stronger than “different.”
More to the point, just being Chinese isn’t “exotic,” which is a big part of the issue. Included in all the fantastical and impossible sights on Mulberry St. is… just a guy. It’s not “a Chinese acrobat,” or “a member of the Emperor’s Guard,” it’s just, “a Chinese man.” And, sure, it was written in 1937, but it’s not like there weren’t Chinese people in America in 1937. Just being Chinese isn’t “exotic,” and treating it like it is enforces the idea that Asian people are weird and foreign. It’s exactly this concept of “Oriental exoticness” that made it easy, just a few years later, to round up Japanese Americans and put them in camps - because just by being Asian, they were weird, and foreign, and “not us.”
If they’re using it for people, I agree. But that article appeared to be objecting to the very idea of “exotic”
And, while I agree that there’s a potential to dehumanize if you think of something as “exotic” (because it’s “not like us”), my point is that things do vary from place to place. It’s a fact , and one we wouldn’t want to change. The error is when we think only of ourselves as the fixed point in the universe and everything else is “exotic”.
And I maintain that even Mr Dibble is guilty of that when he says that no one’s using “exotic” for Bostonians, when he means that he isn’t. To someone in Sri Lanka Boston probably is exotic.
No, I mean no one is. Please, find me a cite for a Sri Lankan calling a Bostonian “exotic”. Not your speculation of how foreigners picture Americans, but an actual example.
And remember, I am a foreigner, in Darkest Africa. I in no way view Americans as “exotic” and no-one I know would say that.
Fox News has found something to vary their non-stop coverage of Andrew Cuomo. Guess what that might be.
Why Fox News is having a day-long meltdown over Dr. Seuss
This Fox & Friends segment wasn’t an isolated incident. Before 9 am Tuesday, Dr. Seuss had been mentioned more than 30 times on Fox News and Fox Business. Fox Business host Stuart Varney even touted Dr. Seuss’s alleged cancellation as one of the big stories of the day.
Dr. Seuss was an even bigger topic on Newsmax — a Trumpier, further right alternative to Fox News — where it was mentioned more than 20 times during the network’s Wake Up America morning show.
Man, this ought to send their average age 75 audience screaming into the night.