(03-02-2021, 07:32 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(03-02-2021, 06:17 PM)mikesez Wrote: Nobody remembers Flit insecticide.
Dr Seuss is not remembered for insecticide advertisements in the 1920s.
He's remembered for children books that he wrote starting in the 1930s, but really his best remembered book, the Grinch, was published in 1947.
And he's remembered for The Sneeches, an explicitly anti-racism book.
Now, in the context of a high school level American history class, it would be appropriate to show these racist cartoons from a well-known artist, to show how pervasive racism was in the 1920s.
Teaching about these very obscure and very old cartoons is not appropriate in any other context.  No one is perfect, and we need to overlook the mistakes of great figures like Dr. seuss, to redeem their stories.

(1) How about we just let little children read Dr. Seuss books to you know... learn how to read?

(2) It's not children (the target audience) that are "offended" or see anything racist in these books.  It's the "woke" educated brainwashed snowflakes on the left that see it.  

(3)Does a little child with a toy like Mr. Potato Head see any kind of "gender bias" with the toy, or is it the "woke" educated indoctrinated snowflakes on the left?

(4)Was the average person "offended" by Aunt Jemmima Pancake Syrup or Uncle Ben's Wild Rice?  Nope.  It was the "woke" educated indoctrinated snowflakes.

The list goes on and on.  Suddenly the "woke" brainwashed people on the left were "offended" by Civil War monuments so they had to be torn down or moved.

It is disturbing to me when I see how children today are being led and brainwashed into a "1984" type society.

(1) I do. There are probably 20 of those books in my house, and I enjoy reading all of them to my children, and they enjoy it as well.

(2) completely agree. There is no racist content in the famous Dr Seuss books. there is some racist content and his overall body of work, but none of that was ever targeted to children.

(3) let's stay on topic

(4) let's stay on topic

You actually agree with my post, so why not be agreeable?

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