{"id":189082,"date":"2021-03-04T17:10:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=189082"},"modified":"2021-03-04T17:10:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:10:18","slug":"no-truce-for-seuss-progressives-take-down-more-classic-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-truce-for-seuss-progressives-take-down-more-classic-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"No Truce for Seuss: Progressives Take Down More Classic Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fno-truce-for-seuss-progressives-take-down-more-classic-titles%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=189082&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--><p><a class=\"republishingLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/republishing-guidelines\/\">Please respect our republishing guidelines &#8211; Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feature-img test\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dr.-Seuss-feature.jpg\" alt=\"No Truce for Seuss: Progressives Take Down More Classic Titles\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The much anticipated Read Across America Day came and went without much fanfare as the company in charge of Dr. Suess\u2019 legacy caved to <a href=\"https:\/\/lngenz.com\/california-schools-banning-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cancel culture<\/a>. Six books have been pulled from the catalog and will not be sold furthermore due to insensitive material. Ironically, Read Across America Day was created to honor children\u2019s literacy <em>and<\/em> the iconic author, whose birthday was also March 2.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_564263\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-564263\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-564263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Cat-in-the-Hat-300x196-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cat in the Hat\" width=\"450\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-564263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cat in the Hat<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a statement, Dr. Seuss Enterprises\u00a0announced: \u201cThese books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Educators and schools across the nation contributed to this latest bout with hysteria \u2013 this time over books with characters of all sizes, colors, shapes, and questionable species \u2013 which also describes today\u2019s far-left progressives. Dr. Seuss Enterprises worked with educators and experts to review its catalog to come up with a plan to erase a racist past. The panel of experts helped Dr. Seuss Enterprises in deciding to end publication (among the publishers are Random House and Vanguard Press) and licensing of the books.<\/p>\n<h3>Did the Cat in the Hat Go Splat?<\/h3>\n<p>The following tomes that seemingly hurt some green, blue, or puce folks have been sent to the burn pile:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>If I Ran the Zoo<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>McElligot\u2019s Pool<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>On Beyond Zebra!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Scrambled Eggs Super!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Cat\u2019s Quizzer<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What did they do to require the liberal cleansing of late? Well, on Mulberry Street, there is a Chinese restaurant featuring a man partaking in a bowl of rice, and the line: \u201cChinaman who eats with sticks.\u201d Oh, the horror. Or it may have been the illustration of the Chinaman with slanted eyes that blew up commerce on Mulberry Street for good.<\/p>\n<p><em>If I Ran the Zoo<\/em> has two black men wearing what appear to be grass skirts with their hair tied above their heads. But in context with the wild and wooly characters in all Seuss books, it\u2019s a non-starter for fans.<\/p>\n<h3>Oh, the Woke Don\u2019t Get the Joke They Wear Like a Yoke<\/h3>\n<p>What was meant to be the Seuss organization\u2019s woke spanking has become a bonanza of profit for the unsuspecting capitalist. After Mr. Biden signed the National Read Across America Day proclamation that excluded Dr. Seuss for the first time, the books that have been pulled from the catalog shot up in value.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon warned buyers that four of the books were out of print with \u201climited availability\u201d and listed a price tag from $920.99 to $4,500.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_564262\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-564262\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-564262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Cindy-Lou-Who-300x225-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cindy Lou Who\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-564262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Lou Who<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On eBay, an auction for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/bfl\/viewbids\/324499922656?item=324499922656&#038;rt=nc&#038;_trksid=p2047675.l2565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McElligot\u2019s Pool<\/a> began in February with a starting bid amount of $4.44. This one-volume has skyrocketed to well over $900 at the time of this writing. As one might imagine, collectors are quite pleased with the latest go-\u2019round of woke hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Biden is the first president to snub the contributions to children\u2019s literacy by Dr. Seuss. Although there have been whisper campaigns by extreme leftist educators for years, it wasn\u2019t really mainstream until First Lady Melania Trump attempted to gift Dr. Seuss books to Cambridgeport School\u00a0in Cambridge, MA. Liz Phipps Soeiro, a library media specialist at the school, said she didn\u2019t \u201clack resources\u201d and that Dr. Suess\u2019 \u201cillustrations are steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes.\u201d She then chided the ignorance of the Trump administration in a long, drawn-out rant. She may have forgotten that her idols, President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama, were Seuss fans \u2013 demonstrating their respect every year of the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the president opined that Seuss was \u201cone of America\u2019s revered wordsmiths\u2019 who used his incredible talent to instill in his most impressionable readers universal values we all hold dear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Cindy Lou Who might say, \u201cthe Grinch better not give an inch,\u201d when the woke folk attempt to pinch a beloved Christmas story.<\/p>\n<p><em>~<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Read more from<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/author\/sarah-cowgill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sarah Cowgill<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please respect our republishing guidelines &#8211; Click Here The much anticipated Read Across America Day came and went without much fanfare as the company in charge of Dr. Suess\u2019 legacy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274715,"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\/03\/Dr.-Seuss-feature.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"No Truce for Seuss: Progressives Take Down More Classic Titles","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dr.-Seuss-feature.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"No Truce for Seuss: Progressives Take Down More Classic Titles","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189082","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=189082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}