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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Potato, potahto. Though I wouldn't say they've seemed particularly deaf about things before 2021. The links you provided earlier indicated a willingness to respond to concerns about a mural. There were changes made to the particular image being discussed in this thread before 2021, as well. I don't see "weighing up the potential outcomes" and "sympathetic to such concerns" as being entirely mutually exclusive motivations, myself. *shrug*
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Not sure if there is a link between the museum and the Enterprise. However, the reluctant changes to the mural were brought about by public pressure. Not a sudden enlightenment.
That Dr. Seuss himself agreed to change the original image seems to have been based on a realization of how dated it was many years later. That he refused to outright remove the picture suggests that he did not see or intend it to be offensive.
As for the difference between "weighing up potential outcomes" and "being sympathetic to such concerns", I think there is a world of difference. One implies a reluctant bowing to public pressure. The other implies a newfound enlightened understanding of the valid points others are making.
Which was it? Who knows? Given the history of events over the last few years, I have my suspicions. But they remain just that.