Dr. Seuss and the Woke Army’s Nonsensical, Fanatical Thirst to Cancel American Treasures, by Al Perrotta

A 2012 stamp featuring “Dr. Seuss,” Theodor Geisel. Appropriate, given recent events, it is a cancelled stamp

By Al Perrotta, The Stream, March 4, 2021

Al Perrotta is the Managing Editor of The Stream and co-author, with John Zmirak, of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration. You can follow him at @StreamingAl on Twitter and Parler, if his Twitter account is restored. You can also follow him @StreamingAl on Gab and MeWe. 

Want to guess what will next be targeted for destruction by the Fanatical Leftist Cancel Cancer? Think “What has been enjoyed by generations of Americans of all stripes? What has bound us together as Americans through times good and bad? What do normal people love?”

But who would have thought they’d come after Dr. Seuss? Last week, could you have found a liberal in American who didn’t love Dr. Seuss’s books? The Grinch? Horton Hears a Who? Green Eggs and Ham? That Dr. Seuss?

Seuss’s Great Sin

What could he have done? The legendary children’s book author committed the great sin of being of his time. In six of his books the Woke Police find images it declares are offensive caricatures of Blacks and Asians. As if everything Dr. Seuss drew wasn’t a caricature of something. The Woke Police have no problem with vile, trashy, racial stereotypes in current popular music — Hello, Carli B. — but a racial stereotype from 60 years ago must go.  …

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