• SoyViking [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Filthy pinko woke leftists wants to cancel Dr. Seuss! :monke-rage:

    So you telling me the guy wasn't really a racist?

    Cancel Dr. Seuss! :monke-rage:

  • Lerios [hy/hym]
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    4 years ago

    To be fair, from their point of view, they're kind of right to turn on him; my man Dr Suess stanned Stalin :stalin-heart:

    • redthebaron [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      as our friend said you shouldn't but if you want to know basically dr seuss familly had decided that there was some racism in his work and decided to stop publishing some, right wing thinks it is the woke mob canceling dr Seuss instead of the actual owners deciding this is not great we probably shouldn't publish this but yeah it is really dumb stuff

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Also it's basically extremely obscure works of his, so there's a good chance they just weren't commercially viable and the racism was used as a post-hoc justification for some publicity.

        • redthebaron [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          yeah and like i don't think anyone in the left was like "HEY DR SEUSS GOTTA GO FIRST THING" it is just culture war shit that the conservatives love

          • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            probably the dr. seuss family thought this was a throwaway gesture and assumed nobody would care lol

            • grisbajskulor [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Probably, but if they did this intentionally - HUGE props. Their sales have fucking SOARED.

        • Melenkor [he/him,any]
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          4 years ago

          I read somewhere that 3 of the books they cut haven't even been printed in a few years because they didn't sell.

          It's like, if they just didn't make an announcement about it, then nobody would've even noticed.

    • CuminAndSalt [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      One part that's been missed is that conservatives boycotted the Seuss estate's decision by purchasing Dr Seuss books en masse.

  • Hoyt [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The only time these dumbos liked Suess was when he was writing pro-Japanese Internment political comics

    • Phish [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      Kinda sounds like something Dr Seuss would say.

      A cancelers of conservatives, rebuffer of republicans, a no more ben shapiro, Alex jones, or donald trumpagain!

      Idk that fanciful crap is hard to write, the guy had talent.

  • JohnnyJohnnyHaHaHa [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Wait why the fuck did Dr Seuss get “cancelled” in the first place?

    Did it have something to do with his wife’s suicide?

  • Jerma_sucks [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Chronicles has been at the forefront of cultural commentary, examining American society in defense of Western Civilization.

    inb4 these nazis go on a "socialist" cultural analysis podcast

    • snackage [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      There are a lot of shitty left podcasts but i don't think anyone of them will have "defenders of western civilization" on.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Red Scare had Bannon on, but yeah tbf no actual leftist considers them a leftist podcast.