{"id":342639,"date":"2021-03-29T16:32:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T20:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=342639"},"modified":"2021-03-29T16:32:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T20:32:44","slug":"scholastic-pulls-captain-underpants-spinoff-author-apologizes-over-passive-racism-harmful-to-asian-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scholastic-pulls-captain-underpants-spinoff-author-apologizes-over-passive-racism-harmful-to-asian-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholastic Pulls \u2018Captain Underpants\u2019 Spinoff, Author Apologizes Over \u2018Passive Racism\u2019 \u2018Harmful\u2019 To Asian-Americans"},"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%2Fscholastic-pulls-captain-underpants-spinoff-author-apologizes-over-passive-racism-harmful-to-asian-americans%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=342639&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\/fb_image-4282.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Children\u2019s book publisher Scholastic has pulled \u201cThe Adventures of Ook and Gluk,\u201d a spinoff of the popular \u201cCaptain Underpants\u201d series, following a re-evaluation that found the book \u201ccontains harmful racial stereotypes.<\/p>\n<p>The author, Dav Pilkey, also offered an effusive apology on YouTube and pledged to send profits from sales of the graphic novel to an organization working to end racially motivated violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/captain-underpants-passive-racism-author-vows-donatations\">Fox News reports<\/a> that the graphic novel \u201cfollows a pair of friends who travel from 500,001 B.C. to 2222, where they meet a martial arts instructor who teaches them kung fu and they learn principles found in Chinese philosophy,\u201d a character that Scholastic now says is \u201charmful to Asians\u201d because it embodies \u201cpassive racism\u201d and embraces a \u201charmful racial stereotype\u201d that Pilkey now says is \u201cwrong and harmful to my Asian readers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scholastic did not define \u201cpassive racism,\u201d but Diversity Inc., a news organization that provides training on diversity, inclusion, and Critical Race Theory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversityinc.com\/passive-racism\/\">indicates that \u201cpassive racism\u201d refers to unintentionally<\/a> harmful material that an organization or individual allows to exist, knowing the harm it poses to people of color.<\/p>\n<p>Because of \u201cOok and Gluk\u2019s\u201d \u201cpassive racism,\u201d Scholastic is going one step further than Dr. Seuss Enterprises did last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/study-that-triggered-cancellation-of-dr-seuss-called-cat-in-the-hat-racist-horton-the-elephant-a-white-supremacist\">when it announced that it was ending the publication<\/a> of six of the famous children\u2019s author\u2019s titles. Fox News reports that the publishing company has \u201cdecided to remove the book from its websites\u201d but will also \u201cstop processing orders for it and is seeking a return on all inventory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They are also asking school libraries to pull copies of the book from circulation. Dr. Seuss Enterprises left that decision up to individual libraries, many of whom said they would not pull the books, but simply wait until current copies \u201cage out\u201d of use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScholastic has removed the book from our websites, stopped fulfillment of any orders (domestically or abroad), contacted our retail partners to explain why this book is no longer available, and sought a return of all inventory,\u201d the company said in a statement on its website. \u201cWe will take steps to inform schools and libraries who may still have this title in circulation of our decision to withdraw it from publication. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pilkey apologized profusely for the book\u2019s \u201cpassive racism\u201d in a statement on his YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that you, my readers, will forgive me, and learn from my mistake that even unintentional and passive stereotypes and racism are harmful to everyone,\u201d he said. \u201cI apologize, and I pledge to do better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pilkey then said he \u201cplanned to donate his advance and all royalties from the book\u2019s sales to groups dedicated to stopping violence against Asians and to promoting diversity in children\u2019s books and publishing,\u201d according to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Pilkey\u2019s graphic novel is just the latest title to be pulled from shelves over concerns about racism and sexism, but it is notable that Pikley\u2019s book debuted in 2010 and not in the immediate post-World War II era, when Dr. Seuss\u2019s books were published.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/study-that-triggered-cancellation-of-dr-seuss-called-cat-in-the-hat-racist-horton-the-elephant-a-white-supremacist\">Study That Triggered Cancellation of Dr. Seuss Called Cat In The Hat Racist, Horton The Elephant A White Supremacist<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>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;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children\u2019s book publisher Scholastic has pulled \u201cThe Adventures of Ook and Gluk,\u201d a spinoff of the popular \u201cCaptain Underpants\u201d series, following a re-evaluation that found the book \u201ccontains harmful racial &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311321,"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\/fb_image-4282.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Scholastic Pulls \u2018Captain Underpants\u2019 Spinoff, Author Apologizes Over \u2018Passive Racism\u2019 \u2018Harmful\u2019 To Asian-Americans","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342639","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\/fb_image-4282.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Scholastic Pulls \u2018Captain Underpants\u2019 Spinoff, Author Apologizes Over \u2018Passive Racism\u2019 \u2018Harmful\u2019 To Asian-Americans","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342639","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=342639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}