The Bee has suggestions for other kid books that need to be banned:
Your child’s bookshelves are crawling with racism and toxic problematicness.
But don’t worry — it’s nothing we can’t fix with a little good old-fashioned book burning.
There are hundreds of children’s books that could use a good canceling. But let’s just start with these nine for now:
1. Horton Hears a Who — This Seuss book hasn’t been canceled yet, but it sure needs to be. The book claims a person is a person no matter how small, showing that Seuss hates women’s rights and wants to control their bodies.
2. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom — Prominently features the letter “Q.”
3. Every Berenstain Bears book — These books perpetuate the idea of a nuclear family with traditional values. They also appropriated furry culture.
4. Clifford the Big Red Dog — He’s literally a dog whistle for far-right neo-Nazi extremists and their affinity to the color red.
5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Teaches kids there should be consequences for bad behavior without even considering the child’s race, ethnicity, or history of being oppressed.
6. The Very Hungry Caterpillar — This is book encourages kids to consume and consume, destroying the environment for their own personal gain.
7. Goodnight Moon — Honestly, it’s probably not racist, but if we have to read this book to our kids one more time we’re gonna die. (How very true.)
8. The Jungle Book — Insensitive and stereotypical of Indian culture. Mowgli is called “man-cub,” and don’t even get us started on that loaded term. How has this not been canceled already?
9. If You Give A Mouse A Cookie — Teaches kids about cause and effect– which, as we all know from corporate anti-racism training, is an aspect of white culture not shared by other people groups.
10. The Tuttle Twins — Free markets? Individual responsibility? American history? Are you kidding? Where do we even start? We literally can’t even with this one.
11. The Little Engine That Could — Implies that hard work and effort can help you overcome challenges, which is pretty tone-deaf considering oppressed groups aren’t able to benefit from hard work.
Go here to read the rest. Kids books are dangerous to the Left since the purpose of most kids books, if they have a didactic purpose, tends to be to help kids grow into mature adults, and the last thing the woke among us want is mature adults. Perpetually aggrieved adolescence is their goal for humanity.
Irony of ironies! Dr. Seuss drew Anti-Nazi cartoons during the late 30’s to mid-40’s. But apparently, that’s not enough to keep you from being canceled by the woke police.
I do not like them in a box. I do not like them with a fox. I will not eat them in a house. I do not like them with a mouse. I do not like them here or there. I do not like them anywhere! I do not like these Bill of Rights!
“Seuss hates women’s rights and wants to control their bodies”
IIRC, Seuss himself, and/or his widow, objected to pro-life groups using “Horton” to promote their cause because they personally were pro-choice/pro-abortion. One of Seuss’ later books was a very thinly disguised anti-nuclear weapons tome so his liberal credentials were pretty much unquestioned during his lifetime.
The Seuss controversy reminds one that this nation’s teachers colleges commonly produce people who are (a) stupid or (b) brazenly contemptuous. Sometimes both at the same time. These types tend to land in school administration. CLOSE. THEM. DOWN.
Speaking of cancel culture spread by stupid and contemptuous school administrators, I learned this morning that there is a manufactured controversy raging over…get this…the University of Texas “spirit song”, “The Eyes of Texas.” What are the unforgivable sins of this harmless-sounding jingle? It was allegedly first performed by……a minstrel show by men in blackface! Oh, the humanity! And to make matters worse for the carnival barkers of wokesterism, it apparently is based on a saying once used by that now-canceled purveyor of evil, Robert E. Lee, speaking of his beloved home state of Virginia. Well, we can’t have that, say the wokesters! Meanwhile, a number of fairly significant donors to the University are threatening to close their fat checkbooks if the song is tossed down the memory hole.
Get your popcorn ready. UT has rarely been known to do anything that reduces the flow of dollars from wealthy alums. However, it is also, like most schools these days, deeply infected with leftism.
“..a number of fairly significant donors to the University are threatening to close their fat checkbooks if the song is tossed down the memory hole.”
Not just that, I’ve read that they want the song promoted, cherished, encouraged, and understood so that this and following classes (and staff) love the song too. That won’t happen. I hope they tear up the checks and cancel the endowments.
Frank, reading between the lines, the UT President is woke and will cave next week under cover of a committee report.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/texas-president-eyes-of-texas-defends-players
Again, I hope he reaps what he sows. He’ll be next.
You have that right, JFK.
The absurdity overwhelms.