Was the decision to stop publishing six obscure Dr Seuss racist titles an erasure of history?
Media coverage of the controversy has presented it as an attack on free speech and yet another example of cancel culture censorship. Brendan McDermid / Reuters
Was the decision to stop publishing six obscure Dr Seuss titles containing racist imagery and messaging an erasure of history?
Media coverage of the controversy has presented it as an example of censorship, an attack on free speech and yet another example of cancel culture. These reactions are rooted in both a lack of awareness of the challenges and realities of maintaining collections and a false understanding of history.
A Florida mom’s in big trouble.
As relayed by The Smoking Gun, the mother of a toddler was arrested Wednesday after cops made a disconcerting discovery at her Largo home.
Among the purportedly seized substances: “a baggie of pills suspected to be MDMA.”
In case you’re unfamiliar, that’s short for Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, otherwise known as ecstasy or for the
really cool kids molly.
Speaking of, the New York Post notes a 3-year-old victim was involved.
Apropos per the police report the 24-year-old was taken into custody because she allegedly did “willfully or by culpable negligence fail to provide said child with the care, supervision and services necessary to maintain the child’s mental health that a prudent person would consider essential for the well-being of the said child, to wit: supervision without causing great bodily harm, permanent disability or permanent disfigurement to the said child.”
Rob Rogers for April 07, 2021
April 06, 2021
Major League Baseball made a PRIVATE SECTOR BUSINESS DECISION and, boo hoo, Big Government Trumpubli
Qan politicians think THEY should get a veto on PRIVATE BUSINESS DECISIONS, led by commie-in-chief Mitch McMoscow, who now whines that business should stay out of politics.
This after McMoscow has spent his whole adult life begging for money from corporate donors and who even was a lead plaintiff in one of the lawsuits to overturn the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform.
So Major League Baseball joins the other PRIVATE SECTOR FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS whose BUSINESS “FREEDOM” Trumpubli
Qans want to
CANCEL: Dr Seuss Enterprises (for discontinuing new publication of fewer than 10% of its oldest, slow-selling titles), Hasbro (over the gender of a plastic potato), Warner Brothers (Looney Tunes not including one of its characters, Pepe LePew, in a cartoon).