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Cat in a spat: scrapping Dr Seuss books is not cancel culture – The Conversation AU
Anguished cries of ‘cancel culture’ rang out with news that six Dr Seuss books would be shelved. But canceling Dr Seuss is not possible, nor is it the best way…
Lets start by putting aside the bugbear that it is even possible to cancel childrens author Dr Seuss.
As Philip Bump wrote yesterday in The Washington Post,
No one is cancelling Dr Seuss. The author, himself, is dead for one thing, which is about as cancelled as a person can get.
Laying aside a multimillion-dollar publishing business, tattered copies of Dr Seuss books clutter childrens bedrooms around the globe. Parents still grapple nightly with the tongue-twisters of Fox in Socks, Horton Hears…
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