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The movement to cancel Dr. Seuss didn’t emerge from a vacuum. Two years before Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced it would pull five of the classic children’s author’s books, a study examined the racial makeup of characters in Theodore Seuss Geisel’s books, and found a lack of diversity. Perhaps more chillingly, a leftist education group found fault with the Dr. Seuss story “The Sneetches,” a story that
explicitly condemns racism.
Back in 2019, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) education arm, Teaching Tolerance (now rebranded “Learning for Justice”), condemned “The Sneetches” as insufficiently “anti-racist.” The story condemns racism, sure, but it fails to use Marxist critical race theory to turn children into activists. You see, it’s not enough to oppose racism — you have to militate against “systemic racism” and the “white supremacy” latent in American society.