{"id":208082,"date":"2021-03-10T12:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=208082"},"modified":"2021-03-10T12:30:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T17:30:02","slug":"knowles-the-left-fears-cats-quizzer-more-than-mein-kampf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-the-left-fears-cats-quizzer-more-than-mein-kampf\/","title":{"rendered":"KNOWLES: The Left Fears \u201cCat\u2019s Quizzer\u201d More Than \u201cMein Kampf\u201d"},"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\">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%2Fknowles-the-left-fears-cats-quizzer-more-than-mein-kampf%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=208082&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\/03\/GettyImages-501415222-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>If you want to buy Dr. Seuss\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Cat\u2019s Quizzer<\/em>&nbsp;on Amazon, it will set you back $628.75 on the secondhand market. If you try to buy it on eBay, you may not find it at all. According to a spokesman for the auction site, \u201cEBay is currently sweeping our marketplace to remove\u201d six Dr. Seuss books recently deemed offensive by politically correct censors.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Seuss\u2019s cancelation comes on the heels of Amazon\u2019s decision to ban&nbsp;<em>When Harry Became Sally<\/em>, Ryan T. Anderson\u2019s whimsically titled, scholarly assessment of transgenderism. Amazon has refused to give an explanation for banning Anderson\u2019s book in particular, but has defended past decisions to censor by pointing to its publishing guidelines, according to which the company reserves the right to ban \u201chate speech\u2026or other material we deem inappropriate or offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No amount of money can buy you a copy of&nbsp;<em>When Harry Became Sally<\/em>&nbsp;on Amazon. But a mere $16 will get you a paperback copy of Hitler\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Mein Kampf<\/em>, delivered to your door in two days with \u201cPrime\u201d shipping. If you can\u2019t wait that long, Amazon offers an immediate digital download of the Fuhrer\u2019s manifesto for just $10.99. EBay also offers collectible editions of&nbsp;<em>Mein Kampf<\/em>&nbsp;alongside thousands of other Nazi souvenirs.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives have accused the websites of hypocrisy and absurdity, but the decision to permit Hitler and censor Seuss makes perfect sense: the Left faces a far greater threat from&nbsp;<em>The Cat\u2019s Quizzer<\/em>&nbsp;than it does from&nbsp;<em>Mein Kampf<\/em>. Dr. Seuss influences impressionable young minds. If his cartoons contradict politically correct fashions, then Dr. Seuss has got to go. Hitler, on the other hands, exerts no influence on the culture beyond a handful of skinheads playacting alternate history. In fact, the Left benefits from the continued publication of&nbsp;<em>Mein Kampf<\/em>. Only by keeping the Third Reich at the forefront of the American mind do leftists\u2019 calumnies carry any weight when they smear their opponents as Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s stories help shape what the Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci called the \u201ccommon sense,\u201d the set of beliefs that people come to hold without critical reflection. Gramsci reprimanded his fellow radicals in the early twentieth century for focusing too much on their abstract theories and losing touch with the common sense. He urged radicals to achieve \u201ccultural hegemony\u201d by amassing social power through a \u201cwar of position,\u201d a concept that student radicals of the 1960s would rename \u201cthe long march through the institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I detail this process of cultural transformation and conservatives\u2019 failure to stop it in my upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3kYKbsu\">book<\/a>&nbsp;<em>Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds<\/em>, which I\u2019m pleased to report Amazon has not yet banned.&nbsp;For decades, conservatives have mocked the Left for their frivolity and hypocrisy. But political correctness is neither frivolous nor hypocritical. It\u2019s a cogent political strategy that has confounded conservatives for decades and continues to work today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>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&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>member<\/em><\/span><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to buy Dr. Seuss\u2019s\u00a0The Cat\u2019s Quizzer\u00a0on Amazon, it will set you back $628.75 on the secondhand market. 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