Dr. Seuss Sales Skyrocket

[Keith&Co.]

So, a year ago, it was decided to stop publishing SIX and only six titles of Dr. Seuss books. For all that the author was against racusm, he still included some harmful stereotypes that he was very likely unaware of.

So, six were stopped.
Nowhere was the bulk of his work banned.
There was one school that stopped centering so much attention on Seuss during reading events. But hius books are still available.

This week, the virtue-signalling Right has swamped book dealers, ordering so many copies of Seuss books that he's now something like 45 of the top 50 books on Amazon.

Which, um, is showering cash on the publisher that stopped publishing six books...

Reminds me of New Coke, back in the 80's. Threaten to stop making an item, watch demand go nuclear, rake in Cash. Laugh at yhe ATM.

The boards of several publishers are probably wondering if they can make similar ridiculous profits "canceling" something else?
"Hey, Aggie, can we sell Drow elf treatment at the hands of wood elves as racusm?"
"No, but if we spike this one volume of The Destroyer fir having a Russian villain during the Cold War, we might have a run on the other 130 titles."

 

[Shadowy Man]

I had never even heard of the six titles they discontinued.

 

[Keith&Co.]

I had never even heard of the six titles they discontinued.

I kinda recall the zoo one, i think, and i know we owned saw it on Mulberry street, when i was really little. But i am ancient as hell...

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[Shadowy Man]

I had never even heard of the six titles they discontinued.

I kinda recall the zoo one, i think, and i know we owned saw it on Mulberry street, when i was really little. But i am ancient as hell...

But if you look at a list of best-selling Seuss books over the years those six are low on the list. Who knows, it may even save them money to not reprint them.

 

[marc]

So all these right wingers protesting ‘cancel culture’ are buying up kids books that teach environmentalism (Lorax) stupidity of racism (sneeches), stupidity of arms race (butter battle book)? I’m ok with that.

And Seuss did say he was embarrassed by some of the images he made years before.


Oh, and The Destroyer? Remo? I read a bunch of those as a kid, loved them.

 

[Ford]

So, a year ago...

This fact does appear to have been lost in the shuffle. It flies in the face of the "well now that Biden/the Democrats are in control, 'Cancel Culture' is in full swing!"

It had nothing to do with the election. Or politics. It was the author's own estate.

 

[Elixir]

Horton Hatches the Egg was my moral compass for most of my formative years.
I guess that explains a lot.

 

[Worldtraveller]

So, a year ago, it was decided to stop publishing SIX and only six titles of Dr. Seuss books. For all that the author was against racusm, he still included some harmful stereotypes that he was very likely unaware of.

So, six were stopped.
Nowhere was the bulk of his work banned.
There was one school that stopped centering so much attention on Seuss during reading events. But hius books are still available.

This week, the virtue-signalling Right has swamped book dealers, ordering so many copies of Seuss books that he's now something like 45 of the top 50 books on Amazon.

Which, um, is showering cash on the publisher that stopped publishing six books...

Reminds me of New Coke, back in the 80's. Threaten to stop making an item, watch demand go nuclear, rake in Cash. Laugh at yhe ATM.

The boards of several publishers are probably wondering if they can make similar ridiculous profits "canceling" something else?
"Hey, Aggie, can we sell Drow elf treatment at the hands of wood elves as racusm?"
"No, but if we spike this one volume of The Destroyer fir having a Russian villain during the Cold War, we might have a run on the other 130 titles."

Well, 1) rightwingers are reactionary morons that generally don't understand the consequences of their actions; 2) they were lied to (again) by their right wing sources of misinformation that this was some liberal plot, so they rushed out to cancel the imaginary cancel. (see point 1).

 

[Keith&Co.]

And on that note...

 

[Worldtraveller]

Instead of the "Here's your sign", it's "Here's your ball."

 

[Keith&Co.]

Instead of the "Here's your sign", it's "Here's your ball."

I like that.
But i think an important part of the Idiot Ball is 'uncharacteristically' like an idiot. Out of the norm for that person.

I mean, no one showed up on the set of Gilligan's Island wondering who carried the idiot ball for that episode.

So some of the people flapping their gums in idiot mode during this administration are more Idiot Ball goalkeepers.

 

[Swammerdami]

I had never even heard of the six titles they discontinued.

I kinda recall the zoo one, i think, and i know we owned saw it on Mulberry street, when i was really little. But i am ancient as hell...

"To think that I saw it on Mulberry Street" was banned? :-( Why? That was my favorite.

 

[repoman]

Chuckie Blow got his scalp



Dan Fielding will be cancelled next for his cringey guilt trip begging Christine Sullivan for sex.

 

[Keith&Co.]

"To think that I saw it on Mulberry Street" was banned? :-( Why? That was my favorite.

Seuss had regrets on some of it.

The book was selected to be pulled from publication because it has outdated portrayals of Asian people. These include descriptions of a character described as Chinese as having slanted eyes, eating bowls of rice, and wearing conical hats.

It also captions an illustration of a man as “a Chinese man who eats with sticks.” The book, in particular this section, was actually altered in 1978 by Dr. Seuss himself.

"I had a gentleman with a pigtail. I colored him yellow and called him a 'Chinaman.' That's the way things were 50 years ago," he once explained. "In later editions, I refer to him as a 'Chinese man.' I have taken the color out of the gentleman and removed the pigtail and now he looks like an Irishman."

 

[thebeave]

"To think that I saw it on Mulberry Street" was banned? :-( Why? That was my favorite.

Seuss had regrets on some of it.

The book was selected to be pulled from publication because it has outdated portrayals of Asian people. These include descriptions of a character described as Chinese as having slanted eyes, eating bowls of rice, and wearing conical hats.

It also captions an illustration of a man as “a Chinese man who eats with sticks.” The book, in particular this section, was actually altered in 1978 by Dr. Seuss himself.

"I had a gentleman with a pigtail. I colored him yellow and called him a 'Chinaman.' That's the way things were 50 years ago," he once explained. "In later editions, I refer to him as a 'Chinese man.' I have taken the color out of the gentleman and removed the pigtail and now he looks like an Irishman."

Um, I'm surrounded by Asian people pretty much daily here in Silicon Valley, and am good friends with very many. Nice folks. Slanted eyes are a common feature, and they have rice almost daily in their home that they eat with their 'sticks. Conical hats aren't generally worn, but I have seen Asians working at the local car wash wear them on a hot day, or sometimes you'll see older Asian ladies wear them while they're gardening. Maybe I'm missing something, but I never really thought of having slanted eyes and eating rice and wearing a particular style hat to be "racist". Its just who they are. Should they be embarrassed or ashamed of having slanted eyes and liking rice?! I'm kinda wondering what they must think when people outside their race decide that the way they look and what they eat is offensive. Its enough to make one think that those doing the book banning might be racist.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Maybe I'm missing something, but I never really thought of having slanted eyes and eating rice and wearing a particular style hat to be "racist". Its just who they are.

uh, yeah, you're missing something.
Fitting a stereotype in some part is not the problem with stereotypes.
Frankly, it couldn't BE a stereotype if no one could ever offer up an example that partly supports it.
But, seriously? You think charges of racism are attacks on the race being '-ismed'?

Should they be embarrassed or ashamed of having slanted eyes and liking rice?! I'm kinda wondering what they must think when people outside their race decide that the way they look and what they eat is offensive.

Sweet Christ, you really do.


Just....wow.

Its enough to make one think that those doing the book banning might be racist.

Well, that solves everything.
If somreone is concerned about promoting a stereotype, they should not be, because someone, somewhere, actually fits the stereotype at least a little bit. So it's all good.
In fact, making the decision NOT to promote one or more stereotypes is actually an attack on other people, shaming them for fitting that stereotype, to any degree. So, one should comtinue stereotyping, because it's racist to stop.
Uh huh....

 

[Elixir]

On the property I owned in the mountains west of Boulder was a mine that ran almost level, about 350 feet straight into the mountain. It was dug by Chinese laborers using star drills, sledgehammers and dynamite. The fine for killing a Chinaman was fifty cents. But there were pounds of gold coming out of that hole, so no biggie.
I ran cat5 and speaker wire to the back of the mine, placed speakers and a mic in it with the return signal going straight into the recording console in my studio. Fantastic natural reverb... sometimes I thought I could hear the cries of those who died digging that hole.

 

[repoman]

 

[Keith&Co.]

Dan Fielding will be cancelled next for his cringey guilt trip begging Christine Sullivan for sex.

Was Dan EVER presented in such a way that his womanizing was approved? He was the hero a couple times, like when he did NOT take sexual advantage, or financial advantage, or office politics advantage of someone.
Othrr than that, he was always presented as a creep exactly because of the way he treated women. Friends. Coworkers. Superiors.

So, you do not understand why the Seuss estate pulled six books from production.
Big surprise.