{"id":176520,"date":"2021-02-26T10:46:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=176520"},"modified":"2021-02-26T11:29:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T16:29:19","slug":"oh-the-places-the-woke-will-go-dr-seuss-canceled-for-racial-undertones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oh-the-places-the-woke-will-go-dr-seuss-canceled-for-racial-undertones\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For \u2018Racial Undertones\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foh-the-places-the-woke-will-go-dr-seuss-canceled-for-racial-undertones%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=176520&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Dr.-Seuss.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A national educators organization is telling schools to avoid reading Dr. Seuss because the children\u2019s books allegedly have \u201cracial undertones.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For more than 20 years, March 2 has been recognized as Read Across America Day in honor of Dr. Seuss\u2019s birthday. The reading recognition day was founded by the National Education Association \u2014 the nation\u2019s largest labor union \u2014 in 1998. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cCreate and Celebrate Diversity.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Learning for Justice \u2014 a left-wing educators group \u2014 is demanding that Dr. Seuss be canceled. A prominent Virginia school district has taken marching orders and ordered its schools to avoid \u201cconnecting Read Across America Day with Dr. Seuss.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Loudoun County Public Schools, one of the nation\u2019s most affluent school districts, announced that it will no longer recognize Dr. Seuss on his birthday. In an announcement obtained by The Daily Wire, the school district said that Dr. Suess\u2019s children\u2019s books contain \u201cracial undertones\u201d that are not suitable for \u201cculturally responsive\u201d learning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cRealizing that many schools continue to celebrate \u2018Read Across America Day\u2019 in partial recognition of Dr. Seuss\u2019 birthday, it is important for us to be cognizant of research that may challenge our practice in this regard,\u201d the announcement reads. \u201cAs we become more culturally responsive and racially conscious, all building leaders should know that in recent years there has been research revealing radical undertones in the books written and the illustrations drawn by Dr. Seuss.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Learning for Justice was formerly known as \u201cTeaching Tolerance,\u201d which has promoted radical views on teaching \u201csocial justice\u201d and \u201cracial justice\u201d to students as young as five-years-old. Learning for Justice is the education arm of the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a magazine article titled, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningforjustice.org\/magazine\/its-time-to-talk-about-dr-seuss\"><span>It\u2019s Time to Talk About Dr. Seuss<\/span><\/a><span>,\u201d Learning for Justice cites a<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/sophia.stkate.edu\/rdyl\/vol1\/iss2\/4\/\"><span>study<\/span><\/a> <span>from St. Catherine University that claims Dr. Seuss\u2019s children\u2019s literature is rife with \u201corientalism, anti-blackness, and white supremacy.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The researchers surveyed 50 Dr. Seuss books and concluded that there is not enough diversity in the children\u2019s books, many of which were written in the 1950s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOf the 2,240 (identified) human characters, there are 45 of color representing two percent of the total number of human characters,\u201d the study reads. Of the 45 characters of color, 43 \u201cexhibited behaviors and appearances that align with harmful and stereotypical Orientalist tropes.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Learning for Justice alleges that many of the non-white characters in Dr. Seuss\u2019s books were men and were \u201csubservient\u201d to the white characters in his book.<\/span> <span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s also important to note that each of the non-white characters is male and that they are all \u2018presented in subservient, exotified, or dehumanized roles,\u2019 especially in relation to white characters,\u201d the organization wrote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to a slew of biographers, scholars, and historians, much of the \u201cracist\u201d portion of Dr. Seuss\u2019s work was done before his famous books. His \u201cproblematic\u201d cartoons came during his career as a cartoonist and ad man.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Learning for Justice claims that anyone who defends Dr. Seuss\u2019s problematic work is a racial \u201capologist\u201d and is making excuses for why \u201cbigotry doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The education group also tells teachers to directly discuss Dr. Seuss\u2019s \u201cracist\u201d past with older students, though \u201colder students\u201d remains an undefined category. Teachers were asked to explain to students how racism shows up in places and people they may least expect.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYou can address these arguments directly, discussing the degree to which cultural norms excuse biased language or actions, how harmful stereotypical representation can be and whether \u2014 and how \u2014 a person can make up for hurtful mistakes.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national educators organization is telling schools to avoid reading Dr. Seuss because the children\u2019s books allegedly have \u201cracial undertones.\u201d\u00a0 For more than 20 years, March 2 has been recognized &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274288,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Dr.-Seuss.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For \u2018Racial Undertones\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Dr.-Seuss.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For \u2018Racial Undertones\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}