One of the weirdest parts of this culture war is that the self-styled “warriors” aren’t willing to stand by the empirically racist images they’re supposedly defending. Green Eggs and Ham is not one of the books the @DrSeuss Foundation has decided to stop publishing.
2/ The NRCC will send contributors copies of The Cat In the Hat — also not one of the books that will no longer be published.
3/ The actual books no longer being published are:

- And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
- If I Ran the Zoo
- McElligot’s Pool
- On Beyond Zebra!
- Scrambled Eggs Super!
- The Cat’s Quizzer
4/ The @DrSeuss Foundation explained its decision — and please note it was the Seuss estate that made this decision — this way:
5/ Here are two of the empirically racist images from two of those books.

Ask yourself why the self-styled culture warriors “standing up” for Dr. Seuss don’t show these offensive images or read from the actual books in question when they’re on this crusade.
6/ I would submit that they can’t defend the images because they’re indefensible. I would suggest that they don’t show them to you on the floor of the House or in their little videos because they don’t want to be associated with those racist images either.
7/ Again: if you’re going to defend the books and the images, defend the books and the images.

It would be like trying to defend Disney’s Song of the South by showing Frozen and Toy Story.
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