.........and the latest casualty of political correctness

[73hunter]

https://nationalpost.com/entertainme...ooks-cancelled

[MikePal]

Yea saw that on the news and shook my head ..really ???

Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the official manager of books published under the moniker Dr. Seuss, announced Tuesday that it will no longer be publishing six Dr. Seuss titles because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.”

Cartoon characters are 'people' now... When will this nonsense be called out for what it is...Political Correctness gone mad.

In recent years, however, Geisel has been targeted for imagery deemed stereotypical or out-of-date, including a 2014 scholarly work asserting that The Cat in the Hat is an elaborate mockery of black people. In 2017, when then-First Lady Melania Trump gifted a collection of Dr. Seuss to a Massachusetts school, the books were returned by librarian Liz Phipps Soeiro with a note that the literature was “steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes.”

After the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, Geisel published a number of cartoons depicting Japanese people with stereotypically prominent front teeth. One 1942 cartoon even endorses Japanese-American internment by showing Japanese-Americans as disloyal citizens stockpiling explosives and “waiting for the signal from home.”

Despite this, Geisel could simultaneously take stances against racism and prejudice, even when those concepts were against the mainstream. While an editorial cartoonist for the liberal New York paper PM, Geisel was an early advocate for strong U.S. action against Nazi Germany, and in one cartoon said Americans needed a “good mental insecticide” to clear their minds of “racial prejudice.”

[JBen]

Devil would be in the details for me. Which books, and why exactly. So I’ll reserve judgement for now.

Some things are, well, just dumb and victims of cancel culture. Mr Potato head?

Others less so.
We have a 50 or 60 page thread on racism, religion ( thankfully it get too deep into sexism). Whether it’s “real” or not. There’s another thread about transgender, and whether minors should be able to decide to have procedures. Stiff resistance to that.

Apples don’t fall far. What they read, see and hear. Will help form their own perceptions, moral compasses and more. I’m pretty sure Hitler portrayed Jewish people in a poor way. Some toddlers go years believing in Santa, or even god.............

I personally can’t recall any Dr Suess characterization but times were certainly very different back then...

[fishfood]

Welcome to the future lol.




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[greatwhite]

Under the Liberals it will be back to book burning. I'm positive that our Liberals on here will endorse book burning.

[impact]

Big tech is already censoring and deleting your content. Cancel culture marches on.......

[greatwhite]

Other then this site and one other gun site, I don't have any social Media accounts. I have no twitter or facebook or Instagram or tik-tok or what ever other crap is out there.

Big tech is already censoring and deleting your content. Cancel culture marches on.......

[mosquito]

It is all over the place, when Jordan Peterson's book was announced at the printing company there were people crying and screaming... at a book printing company. His new book just came out, should be "interesting" to see the mental/moral atrophied going nuts. We have a government that is banning airsoft guns and the cabinet won't criticize the imprisonment and torture and reeducation of over 1,000,000 .... most ignore the 250,000+ in North Korea too. The US vs THEM is going nuts while some can say anything and other raked over the coals for months by the media for far less than this...



Off the rail nuts, if Harper had said the reverse they would still be running 10 minute pieces each night on CBC but because it is the media approved (big payouts) and ideologically match Justlied gets a pass.... they are looking for offence that doesn't match theirs to attack, perceived or real or just made up.

I'm not a poet but here is my start for the new

Dr Libtard texts to replace Dr Suess

Look at the snowflake look up to the sky,
I offered him a piece of some apple pie,
He hated apples and started to scream and cry,
"I hate apples, I hate you and I hope you die".

I had said something he did not like,
for the next two weeks he screamed into a mic
to the police he screamed the actions to take
beat and arrest apple pie makers who bake

The police came and did what he said,
politicians even wanted all apple trees dead,
the came and arrested me and hit my head
when they were done I was black blue and red

so listen dear children make sure not to offend,
for if you think or ask questions it will have a bad end,
always follow the government rules,
or they will throw you out like old tools.

Other then this site and one other gun site, I don't have any social Media accounts. I have no twitter or facebook or Instagram or tik-tok or what ever other crap is out there.

If you have a few you want to watch you can just book mark to see what they are saying, sometimes, this one has a lot of stupidity on it.
https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau

while these are good at facts
https://twitter.com/CSSA_CILA
https://twitter.com/CSIS

and this one cool pics
https://twitter.com/apod

Remember the Nova Scotia idiocy, it could be handy to know which URLs on TWITter are the real page since there are tones of fakes.



Like my sale watch I have a couple tabs I just click open all tabs on the folder and see what is going on

[GW11]

Been shaking my head on this one since yesterday morning.

There seems to be no limit to the number of things people will dig up and find offensive.

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[fishermccann]

As a heterosexual white male, I do try to look at things through the eyes someone who is not .Tough to do, I know, but I try.