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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
This is where you lose me. You think everything is associated with outside agitators when it is far more likely that librarian was being a nasty piece of shit to the Trumps because it was likely her only chance to interact with them in any meaningful way.
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I had assumed that you had read the other posts which I had written in this thread where "outside agitators" did directly contact Dr. Seuss Enterprises.
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The removal was not made abruptly, as, according to Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the company made the decision last year. There had already been various complaints raised by the likes of teachers regarding the content of certain books. For example, If I Ran the Zoo was challenged at the Vancouver Public Library in 2014 for racist Asian stereotypes.
https://www.cbr.com/dr-seuss-stepdau...s-publication/
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Dr. Seuss Enterprises were also likely not unaware of other "outside agitators" who went to the NEA with the findings from their study and "stakeholder" feedback to pressure to the NEA to move the focus of Read Across America Day from Dr. Seuss where it had been for 20 years.
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As critical race scholar-activists, we engaged stakeholders, including youth, families, and teachers from racially marginalized communities, to identify and document existing forms of resistance to Seuss' racist works. In 2017, we submitted this stakeholder feedback, and our study findings, to the National Education Association’s (NEA) Read Across America (RAA) Advisory Committee. RAA is the nation’s largest celebration of reading, with over 45 million annual participants. The NEA created the event in 1996 to take place on Dr. Seuss' birthday (March 2nd). For twenty years, the celebration was centered around Dr. Seuss' children’s books and the author himself. We advocated that they reconsider their twenty year focus on Seuss and use their platform to promote anti-racist diverse books by authors of color.
https://sophia.stkate.edu/cgi/viewco...0&context=rdyl
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And then there was the Learning for Justice article in 2019 which Dr. Seuss Enterprises would also likely have been aware of:
https://www.learningforjustice.org/m...about-dr-seuss
And we know that Dr. Seuss listened to "feedback" from outisde audiences and then enlisted the help of "a panel of experts" to arrive at their decision, a process that involved "months of discussion."
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The decision to cease publication and sales of the books was made last year after months of discussion, the company told AP.
"Dr. Seuss Enterprises listened and took feedback from our audiences including teachers, academics and specialists in the field as part of our review process. We then worked with a panel of experts, including educators, to review our catalog of titles," it said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dr-seus...se-publishing/
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It does seem that a lot of outside pressure was being put on Dr. Seuss Enterprises and that it wasn't a simple business decision on their part.