Blame La Jolla.
In a major relief to parents around the world, Dr. Seuss has officially been cancelled. National Public Radio announced the move minutes ago, reporting:
Dr. Seuss Enterprises will cease publishing six of the author’s books — including And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo — saying they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.” The books have been criticized for how they depict Asian and Black people.
The decision to stop publishing and licensing the books follows a review by a panel of educators and other experts, according to Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the company that controls the author’s books and characters. The other four titles that will be permanently shelved are McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, Scrambled Eggs Super! and The Cat’s Quizzer.
The company says the decision was made last year, in an effort to support “all children and families with messages of hope, inspiration, inclusion, and friendship.”
“Dr.” Seuss, born Theodor Seuss Geisel, born in 1904 and culturally appropriating his honorary title while at college, began his career in advertising before shifting to children’t books after World War II.
He lived in La Jolla, very near Windansea, and likely took bad inspiration from the unrepentant jerks who regularly surf it to this day.
Months ago, surf brand Billabong announced a collaboration with Dr. Seuss Enterprises in order to celebrate now-tainted Earth Day.
The collection was released in five separate installments, celebrating five different Seuss books and messages with a press release reading:
The relationship between Dr. Seuss and boardsports culture is a long and storied one. Ever since the early 1990s, the treasured author’s artwork has been featured on skateboard graphics and t-shirts. Taking things to the next level, the Billabong x Dr. Seuss collaboration marks the first full-fledged apparel release with a boardsports brand. For maximum impact, the collection will be endorsed by members of Billabong’s elite surf athlete team such as Jack Freestone, Ryan Callinan, and Seth Moniz in promotional content advocating ocean conservancy, among other themes.
It must be assumed that Billabong is busily recalling the clothing, burning it all, firing Jack Freestone, Ryan Callinan and Seth Moniz, etc.
Parents are encouraged to call the authorities if they see any of their children’s friends wearing Dr. Seuss or reading him.
Hey Chaz I have an idea. Maybe you start a pay subscription membership similar to Stab. Members would get a colored check mark next to their name like twitter.
AND…… all members get to find out the true identity of all the commenters. They can never mention them in the comments… but they KNOW
Some of us use our real names, but yeah, not many.
Because of the studios pushing out too much content to try and compete with every streaming services. Not everything is about politics. Pull your head out of your ass.
What does that have to do with anything I just?
“Both sides must work together” than you write off anything I say. Sounds like you have no interest in both sides communicating.
Can you people quit getting so mad at nonsense. The Dr. Seuss company does not want to pub those books – so fucking what?
Amazing we care about such trivial shit in this country. No wonder people around the world continue to laugh at us.
Why don’t you got do some stories on all the church’s burning music albums/books which was especially pervasive back on the 1980’s – the fucking originators or ‘cancel culture’.
My god, there are way bigger issues in this world.
*Kelly Slater instantly jumps on bandwagon and burns his Dr Seuss collection, reducing his sources of information to only Joe Rogan clips*
Slow day of waves today boys?
Dr. Seuss, sent to the proverbial gulag, where he’ll find Mark Twain and Laura Ingalls Wilder branded with iron stamps.
Next, Shakespeare & Hemingway.
Where do the progressives draw a line?
ok ill take your bait. Social media accounts are not a right, for one. For two, it wasn’t the publisher that stopped the production of Dr. Suess, it was Dr. Seuss Enterprises. The publisher is Public Random House and they did not make the decision to stop making the books
Let me get this straight, you think you cant have cultural diversity without being derogatory of ones culture?
Yes, those who get mad for not being able to oppress others tend to want to go to war so they can oppress others. See the civil war. Great logic you got there.
Gosh where’s Bex when you need him – He would’ve said something extremely goofy!
He’s cancelled
The irony!!!
Sociology is not a right or left study. Both sides should study to better understand society and those they are arguing with. Which is why I find it odd that the right always likes to use this man as their fight against sociology as if its “the degree of the left.”
Im not advocating for the past to be erased. People seem to think that cancel culture means everything will be burnt or deleted from existence, what it seems to be, at least to me, is that certain content or words will no longer be accepted as rhetoric.
Context is key when discussing the things people say, is Dr. Suess a racist bigot, of course not. Is there current need to continue to publish that content, probably not. That doesn’t mean we no longer acknowledge that those words were written and published.
New movies are shit, been showing the wife the classics. Silence of the Lambs, Fracture, Made, Seven.
Awesome debate on this thread. Truly BG is the home of free speech. Lots of back and forth and it’s respectful. Shoving things under the rug and canceling shit is so dumb. Debate it, this is the way.
WP you’re dead right – this is what its all about! If you’re not getting up someone’s nose, you’re just shootin” the breeze!
One could argue that the racist black kids led him to being racist, racism breeds racism.
I don’t think racism itself is instinctual, but I agree that fear of the unknown leads to hate or whatever emotion you want to tie in with it.
Elk or moose
Wifi or Bluetooth
Tight or loose
Natural or induce
All the choices and voices
The saint rejoices
I will get no rest
Lest i confess
That in every test
Dr Seuss is the best
McElligot’s Pool is gold.
Photographs, novels, paintings, statues, hieroglyphics, records, stand up comedy etc are all merely documents of a moment in time and should be studied.
You’re my favorite guy.
Xcuse me while I kiss the sky
you’re my fave
My favorite guy.
Free market baby, there is no law in place that states private businesses must give you a space to be offensive. Go to Parler, or whatever the latest right wing platform is.
Except that is not my game. The man he was quoting is used by the right almost exclusively as a talking point against sociology.