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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Where was all of the outrage over the supposed pressure being put on the Seuss foundation to pull these books BEFORE the news broke that they had voluntarily decided to stop reprinting them on their own?
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Well, in 2019, there was this article published by Learning for Justice:
It's Time to Talk About Dr. Seuss
https://www.learningforjustice.org/m...about-dr-seuss
The Learning for Justice article cited this 2019 study:
The Cat is Out of the Bag: Orientalism, Anti-Blackness, and White Supremacy in Dr. Seuss's Children's Books Supremacy in Dr. Seuss's Children's Books
https://sophia.stkate.edu/cgi/viewco...0&context=rdyl
The study is well worth reading and highlights some of Dr. Seuss' early advertising work and his cartoons which appeared in a variety of magazines. I hadn't been aware of such work until reading the article just today. It doesn't paint a pretty picture.
That said, I still wouldn't have an issue sharing any of the Dr. Seuss books which I have seen with children.