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Ross Douthat: Do liberals care if books disappear?
Flaws in Dr Seuss and Babar are a reason for a diverse canon, not a good reason to make books go away.
Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune
Elementary school children where Cat in the Hat hats as they visit the State Capitol in Salt Lake City Friday March 3, 2017. The UEA (Utah Education Association) sponsored the event to coincide with birthday celebrations for Dr. Seuss.
By Ross Douthat | The New York Times
| March 7, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
From the idealistic liberalism of my high school English teachers, I learned that to try to get rid of offensive literature is the great sin of easily triggered rubes. A special horror at
March 6, 2021
From the idealistic liberalism of my high school English teachers, I learned that to try to get rid of offensive literature is the great sin of easily triggered rubes. A special horror at
banning books, which usually meant removing them from the curriculum in some rural school district, pervaded our libraries and classrooms. And a particular shame seemed to throb in my teachers’ breasts when they admitted that some books were even targeted “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” say for misguided
progressive reasons.
This week I learned from a different kind of liberalism that only easily triggered rubes care when offensive books are made to disappear. It was mildly creepy to hear that the custodians of Theodor Geisel’s estate, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, consulted with a “panel of experts” and decided to cease publishing six Seuss titles because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.” But it was much creepier that so few people noti