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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Is it truly going to be “CANCEL CULTURE!!” all day every day from now until November’22? 24? Beyond?
To what degree is this being deployed cynically because they think this is the new Tea Party mojo that will give them a Freedom Caucus majority? Or is this because it just expresses their constipated little thoughts so perfectly ?
("Ca-nin-cel Culture is the Rabid Dog of the 21st Century." Fox News, sometime this weekend)
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.
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
Whew! I was afraid for a moment for my grimy old copy of
Oh Skin-Nay!: The Days of Real Sport
Who can forgot The Amazing Boys' books during WWII like: "The Kike and The Kaiser", "The Nefarious Nippon", and "The Devious Dago."
As long as I can keep my copy of “Tom Swift and His Electric Mammy,” I don’t care, do you?
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.
Did not know 'Tijuana Bibles'. Will let you know how many hours today I spend on them.
Huck Finn is doomed.
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?
Ripped from the day's headlines! Hilarious Roy.
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.
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.
Your parodies can be very convincing usually until halfway in when you kind of give the game away. Love 'em.
Is it truly going to be “CANCEL CULTURE!!” all day every day from now until November’22? 24? Beyond?
To what degree is this being deployed cynically because they think this is the new Tea Party mojo that will give them a Freedom Caucus majority? Or is this because it just expresses their constipated little thoughts so perfectly ?
Breakfast at Tiffany's benefits equally from fast-forward and freeze frame.
Mainstream Hollywood in 1942.
https://youtu.be/8pP64FKL7J0