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A FRIEND delights in sending me news stories that demonstrate what he says are the excesses of “liberalism.” One recent article that arrived in my inbox concerned Dr Seuss Enterprises’s decision to halt publication of six children’s books it now believes contain racist imagery.
“I didn’t realise Dr Seuss made us all racists,” he quipped. As usual, a flippant retort to a flippant remark moves the conversation nowhere. One has to dig a bit deeper.
The newly delisted books — And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, If I Ran the Zoo, McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, The Cat’s Quizzer — were all created between 1935 and 1976, a time when racist imagery in cartoons was as common as giant noses.
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