{"id":33636,"date":"2021-03-03T18:48:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=33636"},"modified":"2021-03-03T18:48:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:48:47","slug":"briefly-its-insane-to-pretend-dr-seuss-and-his-books-are-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=33636","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: It\u2019s insane to pretend Dr. Seuss and his books are racist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Modern culture is going insane. The latest evidence comes from the effort to redefine children\u2019s author Dr. Seuss as a racist<\/a> whose books should be banned. Why? Because a few images in those books don\u2019t meet modern political standards. The drawing you see here is one of those \u201cdangerously racist images,\u201d and it comes from the Dr. Seuss classic, \u201cAnd to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street.\u201d The book catalogs all the wild diversity seen by a child on one street, including the offending drawing of a Chinese boy. What\u2019s racist about it? Apparently, it was racist to show the boy eating rice, wearing a funny hat, using chopsticks and (worst of all) having eyes represented by a slit. (The bearded man near him has dots for eyes, but that\u2019s apparently OK.) In other words, the stereotypes are considered racist today. (Oddly, the culture warriors who fret over such things are never concerned if a white southerner is depicted as ignorant trash living in a trailer. Some stereotypes are great, especially if the left hates those people anyway.) Theodore Geisel \u2014 the name of the real-life Dr. Seuss \u2014 was a product of his time and nobody at that time would have seen any of this as racist. Using stereotypes and exaggerations is how artists depict differences in simple ways. You can argue that it\u2019s better to achieve the end result in a different way, but it\u2019s insane to pretend that everybody from the past should have his work erased because it doesn\u2019t match the preferences of modern leftists. Unfortunately, the company that publishes Dr. Seuss books has caved to the insane people \u2014 and six of his popular works will no longer be published. The world has simply gone insane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Modern culture is going insane. The latest evidence comes from the effort to redefine children\u2019s author Dr. Seuss as a racist whose books should be banned. Why? Because a few images in those books don\u2019t meet modern political standards. The drawing you see here is one of those \u201cdangerously racist images,\u201d and it comes from Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-8Kw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33638,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33636\/revisions\/33638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}