Stop expecting republicans, or fascists in general, to be internally consistent. It’s all about feelings and making the base mad as hell so they don’t actually use the 3 braincells they have to realize what’s going on.
Ah, see you made a mistake in step one by expecting Republicans to use logic.
Basically the timeline near as I can tell is, first the publishing company decided to stop printing and distributing a number of books. This was their own internal decision not prompted by anyone outside the company. Second Fox News invented a story from whole cloth about “the woke left” banning those books. This of course got all the talibangicals in a lather and so they decided to “retaliate” by banning “woke” books. The fatal flaw of course being that they can’t actually define what “woke” is so that just flailed randomly against some minority groups. Because of the broad and ambiguous language they inevitably ended up banning a bunch of Dr. Seuss books.
IIRC Dr. Seuss was “canceled” because one of his books (And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street) contained a racist caricature of Asian people. And apparently a few others, according to the article, for similar reasons. But these books weren’t banned per se, the publisher voluntarily opted to stop printing them.
The book in this article (Wacky Wednesday) is being banned from public schools in Tennessee because it contains an illustration of a kid’s naked butt, which does violate a Republican-drafted law for content inappropriate for children.
I always did find it strange for a child’s bottom to be displayed on sun lotion bottles, but I wonder if that got banned as well? Can’t remember the brand, but if I remember correctly it was a child on the beach covered in a towel and a puppy or something was pulling it away from them. It was around for years.
Wait, why would the response to the “woke left” cancelling Dr Seuss be to… Cancel his book?
Help me try to understand.
Stop expecting republicans, or fascists in general, to be internally consistent. It’s all about feelings and making the base mad as hell so they don’t actually use the 3 braincells they have to realize what’s going on.
Ah, see you made a mistake in step one by expecting Republicans to use logic.
Basically the timeline near as I can tell is, first the publishing company decided to stop printing and distributing a number of books. This was their own internal decision not prompted by anyone outside the company. Second Fox News invented a story from whole cloth about “the woke left” banning those books. This of course got all the talibangicals in a lather and so they decided to “retaliate” by banning “woke” books. The fatal flaw of course being that they can’t actually define what “woke” is so that just flailed randomly against some minority groups. Because of the broad and ambiguous language they inevitably ended up banning a bunch of Dr. Seuss books.
Said another way:
MAGA used *ism against The Woke.
MAGA is confused.
MAGA hurt itself in its confusion.
Two separate issues with different Seuss books.
IIRC Dr. Seuss was “canceled” because one of his books (And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street) contained a racist caricature of Asian people. And apparently a few others, according to the article, for similar reasons. But these books weren’t banned per se, the publisher voluntarily opted to stop printing them.
The book in this article (Wacky Wednesday) is being banned from public schools in Tennessee because it contains an illustration of a kid’s naked butt, which does violate a Republican-drafted law for content inappropriate for children.
I always did find it strange for a child’s bottom to be displayed on sun lotion bottles, but I wonder if that got banned as well? Can’t remember the brand, but if I remember correctly it was a child on the beach covered in a towel and a puppy or something was pulling it away from them. It was around for years.
The brand was Coppertone. They seem to have changed the girl’s suit to a onepiece that stretches without revealing anything.