Six Dr. Seuss books won t be published for racist images

The company that publishes Dr. Seuss children s books said it will stop selling six of his titles because they contain racist and insensitive images.

Dr. Seuss Enterprises the firm charged with preserving and protecting the beloved author s legacy said it scrapped the books because they portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.

Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises catalog represents and supports all communities and families,  the company said in a statement Tuesday, which is also the author s birthday.

Dr. Seuss Enterprises said it decided last year to stop publishing and licensing the titles which include If I Ran the Zoo, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, McElligot s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, Scrambled Eggs Super! and The Cat s Quizzer after consulting with a panel of educators and other experts.

via nypost.com

The idea of cancelling Dr. Seuss is predictably stupid, of course, but I have to say, I will not miss him one bit. His rhymes are idiotic and the artwork deplorable. But kids just love him. He was kept a presence in our culture such as it is by the Dr. Seuss industrial complex, a combination of lazy publishers and mind-numbed parents, willing to do whatever was necessary just to get their kids to go TF to sleep. The books are barely worth reading once, let alone the 1000 plus times that their strangely addicting qualities encourage. They were the Space Invaders or the Tetris of their generation. Angry Birds has more intellectual depth. Dr. Seuss, I have it on good authority, was also a very bad man who probably hated kids. Ok, not very good authority, but he probably did. But then, he’ll probably be replaced by somebody worse, and that’s not good.