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Like the kids say, why not both? LOL. I honestly think (hope) this will be more along the lines of their War on Christmas grift, which never caught on outside the rightwing fever swamps.

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We're the party very strongly against cancel culture.

Also we're against anyone who disagrees with Trump, they have no place in this group.

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("Ca-nin-cel Culture is the Rabid Dog of the 21st Century." Fox News, sometime this weekend)

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Good stuff. One of the wildest things about the cancel culture brigade is they seem completely unaware when they say “I don’t see the problem” they are telling on themselves. The fact that you don’t see the problem *IS* one of the problems.

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None so blind, etc.

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Well, we all know my philosophy about how unfair it is to respond to conservative unhinged ness with facts, but here's one apropos the Seuss canceling that inspired today's post: It was Geisel's estate that made the call under no known cancel police pressure. And you know and I know that those six books sold like crap. So small sacrifice that makes a bunch of potential buyers happy. It's called the free market, which conservatives oppose; they only support rigged markets and corporate welfare.

As for the other recent crisis: Hasbro took the Mr. and Mrs. off the Potato Head packaging. Big deal. Besides, in our era of reduced literacy skills, the image is what's important and that wasn't changed.

God, those people don't even rise to the level of awful. That they worship a literal abomination might be a clue.

And apropos this idiocy:

https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2021/03/fuck-those-dr-seuss-books-and-other.html

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I cannot read about this duck?

Oh, who gives a flying fuck!

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The first & last time I was asked to do one of those "Read to Kids" days in my former job, I read "If I Ran the Circus" — and I of course did not remember much about it, & was quite embarrassed as I did so. Seuss was very forward in many ways, in other ways quite typical of his moment. Not an excuse, but definitely an opportunity to think about how colonialism pervades the structures of the Western mind.

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Our workers LOVE work! They say "Work us! Please work us!"

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This blog is hilarious. LMAO again. I have no ass left, thanks to "a black lesbian feminist Godzilla devouring the canon and setting fire to the Ivory Tower." Party at her place!

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Rudepundit's pretty good!

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Whew! I was afraid for a moment for my grimy old copy of

Oh Skin-Nay!: The Days of Real Sport

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Who can forgot The Amazing Boys' books during WWII like: "The Kike and The Kaiser", "The Nefarious Nippon", and "The Devious Dago."

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As long as I can keep my copy of “Tom Swift and His Electric Mammy,” I don’t care, do you?

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In several 𝘛𝘰𝘮 𝘚𝘸𝘪𝘧𝘵 books, one of the supporting characters is Eradicate Sampson, an elderly ex-slave who works as the Swift family's servant. He makes Uncle Ruckus look like Malcolm X.

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I too enjoyed “Tom Swift and His Emancipated Butler.”

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I'm old enough to remember the kerfuffle around 1984's "The Butter Battle." Seuss's take on the arms race had both sides equipped and prepared to blow one another out of existence. The point of contention being which side the bread should be buttered on.

The usual suspects put up a howl. That time around, their point was that the book simplified the real differences between Western Freedom and Godless Soviet Communism. In the real world, hard choices are necessary, and thank God the grownups are here to make them. If we have to slaughter the Reds, we'll do it. If they take us with them, so be it. Our Way Of Life demands nothing less. The kiddies need to understand that life is cruel, only the strong prevail, and worrying about it will only spoil their dinner.

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I grew up in southern Oregon in the 70s and 80s. I remember when a southern Oregon school banned the Lorax from its library after a kid went home and told her logging family we shouldn't cut down all the trees.

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That's not cancelling, is it?

It's not cancellation if it's protect a conservative from getting their fee-fees hurt.

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Did not know 'Tijuana Bibles'. Will let you know how many hours today I spend on them.

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From a personal Stan Mack True Life Adventure. Overheard on Hollywood Boulevard (outside the CVS), All Dialogue Guaranteed Verbatim:

GIRL ON HER PHONE: "...so we can't put the Tijuana Bibles on Ebay, and it would just break my heart to sell 'em to some Craigslist perv, cuz they belonged to Grandpa..."

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Was culturally illiterate I guess.

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Huck Finn is doomed.

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This was perfecto (can we still say that?). You had me at Jones the Radiator Thief and "The Secret of Sam’s Outhouse." I swear I remember them from my Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, Encyclopedia Whoever childhood. What's fun about "cancel culture" is the exclusively white, privileged, and entitled culture conservatives think is being "cancelled." Maybe they don't realize that, for the sake of the millions of bucks generated, the owners of such as the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew empires have been revising -- "cancelling" -- older editions for decades. They don't do this to make them more "politically correct," but to keep the sales numbers high (e.g., the "no tickee, no washee" dialect of the Chinese laundry in the Hardy Boys of my youth disappeared long ago). What do these folks have against naked capitalism?

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Same is true for the Babar books which have quietly eliminated some very bad colonial imagery.

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Oh I forgot how much I loved those as a very young child! Yeah, they had a lot of great white hunter stuff going on.

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In the original 1927 version of one 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘺 𝘉𝘰𝘺𝘴 book, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘧, someone refers refers to "a [you-know-what] in the woodpile". This was changed when the book was reprinted in 1959. Yes, cancel culture is that old!

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I was googling to be sure I wasn't dreaming! Pinch me! I may still be in a fantasyland where I won the lotto and went to cancel culture heaven in one fell swoop! Swoop me away! LMAO

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Ripped from the day's headlines! Hilarious Roy.

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This is so authentic it was work to figure out the Amazement Boys weren't real books.

Pretty sure the Doctor himself would have approved of detaching himself from some of those images by now. He was always a committed leftist even in the days when he was capable of drawing those awful images (and worse ones from his career as an editorial cartoonist). There remains plenty of wonderful later Seuss that doesn't require canceling, including the anti-authoritarian Yertle the Turtle, which is practically about Donald Trump, and Barack Obama's favorite anti-racism text, The Sneetches. If you have a Republican friend send them a copy of The Lorax, they'll love it. I speak for the trees.

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He did both racist anti-Japanese drawings _and_ an amazingly anti-racist film designed to be shown to future U.S. occupatikn troops limning the average Japanese man as a regular ol' human being who'd been victimised by the militarists and their propaganda.

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Ha ha! You had me going for a while. Incidentally, I am not much of a film buff so I recently saw Breakfast at Tiffany's for the first time while donating platelets at the Red Cross (I do this to feel good about myself and sit around and watch old movies, mostly) and anyhow I was FLOORED by Mickey Rooney's character. He was SO jarring. I had not expected him at all. He made the movie a lot less charming. Ugh.

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The dearth of Asians in Southern California led to a lot of weird casting. /s

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Extra weird that Sessue Hayakawa and Anna May Wong were Hollywood stars in the frickin' 1920s - and we still end up with Boris Karloff and Myrna Loy as Fu Manchu and his daughter, Peter Lorre as Mr. Moto, a Swede playing Charlie Chan, and Mickey Rooney making this mess.

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Your parodies can be very convincing usually until halfway in when you kind of give the game away. Love 'em.

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I have learned not just with Roy but more broadly the trick is little triggers. When you can't make sense of it literally, it's an allusion or a transport to metaphor or figurative. When it seems almost as if it could be genuine but nothing is quite that implicating, yes: It's parody / satire. I wouldn't have it any other way. LOL SMH #TLALaLaLaLA!

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Breakfast at Tiffany's benefits equally from fast-forward and freeze frame.

Mainstream Hollywood in 1942.

https://youtu.be/8pP64FKL7J0

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eeeeyikes

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I wonder how Mr. Ham Face feels about this being canceled? A song honoring a great American Leader, Lincoln, sung buy a great American performer, Bing Crosby, written by Irving Berlin who wrote some of the greatest American patriotic songs

( there's some issues with that, if jew know what I mean)

You know a butt as big as Big Boy's got room for a whole world of hurt.

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