Dr. Seuss and The Great Cultural Purification
So, unless you’ve been living under a rock, or have been smart and stayed off of social media because it has a tendency to make people go mad, you probably heard that six Dr. Seuss books will cease being published because of imagery deemed racist or otherwise inappropriate.
As these kinds of things tend to do, it has people on both sides of the aisle in a tizzy. It was a polarizing decision made by Dr. Seuss Enterprises. On the one side, people are cheering because they see a victory against racism. On the other, we have people saying this is another example of cancel culture. And both sides are happily sniping at each other about it.
Now, taken as just an isolated incident of a company making a decision to not publish books that people have complained about, it’s probably not that big of deal. Private companies are free to do what they want, for the most part. They made a decision. Fine. This isn’t a case of cancel culture, per say.
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But, it is the greater picture here which is concerning. There is a growing trend towards the purification of our societies in a quest to build an anti-racist, anti-offensive utopia. The Seuss affair is just one small part in this puzzle. It is a form of self censorship that seems to be adopted more and more. It’s a part…
