You’ve may have heard all you want to hear about poor Dr. Seuss and Cancel Culture.
The publishers of Theodore Geisel’s books have decided that six of them won’t be published anymore because they are explicitly racist in the way Geisel drew some of his characters.
They are absolutely right.
The right wing went all cancel culture.
But the liberal’s defense may have bene worse. Geisel’s early racist depictions of Black and Asian people were excused as an issue of context. “That’s the way it was in those days,” some said. Nonsense. They were racist when he drew them.
The defenders of Geisel are reacting way too defensively. They act as if this is all taking up too much of our time.
I don’t think so.
I always made a practice of starting off my art classes, particularly with kindergarten CONTINUE READNG: Is the Dr. Seuss controversy a tempest in a teapot? Hell no. – Fred Klonsky