Thread by @solomonsucceeds

Dr. Seuss was a racist. Here's one of his cartoons, published Jan. 13, 1942, mocking pacifist John Haynes Holmes:

Source: "Dr. Seuss, 1940-47, and 2017" by Richard H. Minear
apjjf.org/2017/16/Minear…

This page includes two distinct articles by two authors, and the articles contradict each other. I do not endorse Deb's view because, unlike Minear, they don't provide evidence for assertions.

I'm contradicting the statement on the page that calls both articles "a two-part article."

Deb frames the embarrassment that Dr. Seuss wrote that he had, in the letter to Dartmouth's alumni mag, as him not being proud of his cartoons. I think that's a total misunderstanding,

since the letter to the alumni mag is included in full (in handwriting only) and I read it. The messages of his cartoons don't seem to be a primary subject of Seuss' embarrassment. He defends the ideology of his cartoons without defending or apologizing for his anti-Japanese

racism. He doesn't even allude to any racism, and the only persons to whom he refers when he writes, "I, probably, was intemperate in my attacks on them" were Charles Lindbergh, Sen. Wheeler, Sen. Nye, and Father Coughlin.

I believe that Dr. Seuss, in 1976,

was still super racist because when he was reflecting on his most racist collection, he admitted embarrassment, but not about racism. He had had over 30 years, at that point, to think about his racism. In conclusion, read article 1 and ignore article 2:

apjjf.org/2017/16/Minear…

I found that article linked from "Was Dr. Seuss racist? Should he be a victim of our cancel culture?" which is filled with opinions I do not agree with, but it includes this horrible cartoon that wasn't in the other article:
nj.com/opinion/2020/0…

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