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Dr. Seuss is so racist that only about two-thirds of the families packed into the new Dr. Seuss Museum in Springfield, Massachusetts, when my wife and I visited a few weeks ago were of minority status. Judging by the good times they seemed to be having, I don’t think they were there to bear witness to the overt racism in the good doctor’s illustrations and poems.
I love this podcast.
That whole, stupid thing started when people at some point noticed how Seuss had caricatured Japanese people during WWII. (He caricatured Hitler, too.) He was asked if he had “demeaned” a group years later–maybe in the 60s?–and his answer was something along the lines of “Uh… We were at war??? They were the enemy?” That controversy is suuuuuuuuuuuper ridiculous.
Even more important, if you look back at some of his political cartoons from that same period, he clearly advocates for integration of all Americans as Jim Crow was stupid, and we were wasting good labor resources with our own racist BS.
And he was a racist?
Insane.
In the podcast you can hear “white-supremacist hate-spewer” Michelle Obama reading from Dr. “Mengele” Seuss.
1–You are TOO kind.
2–I’m having a blast doing it!
I heard a rumor that you have to be an arrogant insufferable jerk to be a good podcast host. I fear that might be true.
I’m so with you on the character disconnect with some Evangelical Christians. I remember sitting in my church during the Clinton years and hearing people say disgustingly, “and they say character doesn’t matter.”
Fast forward and the same people are high-fiving Trump and explaining, well, he didn’t do it when he was in office, locker room banter, all guys talk like that, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, whiplash much?
Hillary Clinton would have gone out of her way to demean the rights of devout Christians. Donald Trump, for all his many faults, aggressively defends religious liberty. I agree about all the flaws of his character but he has defended freedoms that Hillary Clinton will take away.
HAH! Oh, yeah, that’s definitely tru….hey–wait a minute!
To me, it came down to a question of faith: If you truly believe that voting for a Bill Clinton or Ted Kennedy or Donald Trump is immoral, then you must have faith that God has a plan and calls you to do the right.
Having voted for Trump, what will “values voters” say in the next election? The election after that? They have killed the issue of “virtue” for a generation. Was Trump worth it?
Dr. Seuss was a hard shell leftist, but I will give him credit for one thing. He did not go along with the Woody Guthrie leftists who backed the Nazis when the Nazis-Soviet pact was in effect. Dr. Seuss was consistently anti-Nazi.
Absolutely. He wanted us to fight Hitler long before this was a popular position. For this, I have forgiven him everything else. When it really, really mattered, he was right.