Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–91) wrote and illustrated more than sixty books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. By the time of his death, his books had sold more than six hundred million copies and had been translated into more than twenty languages.
Geisel was a graduate of Dartmouth with graduate studies at Oxford. His work received two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. For decades, Read Across America Day has celebrated his birthday while encouraging children to read. Like millions of others, I read Dr. Seuss’ books as a child and then read them to our children.
Why canceling Dr. Seuss is a threat to all evangelicals
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Why canceling Dr. Seuss is a threat to all evangelicals
Why canceling Dr. Seuss is a threat to all evangelicals | Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Books by Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, including On Beyond Zebra! and And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, are offered for loan at the Chinatown Branch of the Chicago Public Library on March 02, 2021, in Chicago, Illinois. | Getty Images/Scott Olson
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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.
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