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Originally Posted by hildea
Did magicians get the right to vote in the US in living memory? Are magicians being beaten up on the street because people blame them for the magician virus?
I started typing a long list of instances of current and past racist discrimination here, but it shouldn't be necessary.
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Oh, I'm well aware of the discrimination which Chinese people faced when they first came to North America, and the discrimination which many continue to face.
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Originally Posted by hildea
Imagine yourself being a child of mostly Chinese descent, or a parent of Chinese descent reading for your child, and coming across that page. Can you seriously not see why the Seuss rights owners decided to stop reprinting it?
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Are other characters pointing at the Chinese character and laughing? Is the Chinese character being treated differently than other characters on the same page? Not that I can see. Quite the opposite.
In such a case a child of Chinese descent might be pleased to see that their culture has been included in a Dr. Seuss book.
And once again, as the times changed, the yellow skin colour and the queue were removed from the figure in question.