Conservative commentators are always eager for an excuse to criticize liberals over what they see as cancel culture. Overnight, the Seussian back catalogue has become a hot button cultural issue. Seuss’s bibliography, which rose to the top of Amazon’s best sellers list this week. We will update this post if we hear back.Īll the attention has had a Barbara Streisand effect on Dr. We reached out to eBay and asked how the company will make these kinds of judgment calls in the future, and who at the company is responsible for those decisions, but we have not yet received a response. The American Library Association has cited The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as one of the most frequently “challenged” books for its portrayal of racist language. The former contains explicit depictions of racism, though these behaviors aren’t “glorified” in the book. Then there are texts such as To Kill a Mockingbird or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
There are also historically important texts such as Adolph Hitler’s Mein Kampf (which is still available in eBay’s “Antiquarian and Collectible Books” section). Of course, countless works of art from authors, directors and artists of past generations include language or images that are offensive to modern audiences. The six books in question absolutely do contain offensive depictions of Black people and Asian people, and it’s perfectly reasonable not to sell children’s books that contain racist images. Publishers decide to remove books from publication all the time for a variety of reasons, including their compatibility with modern audiences’ tastes and sensibilities. Seuss books to be pulled from library shelves, and used copies of the problematic books are easy to find (see below). As far as I can tell, absolutely no one is calling for Dr.
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To be fair, it’s a poor example of cancel culture. Predictably, conservative commentators are in an uproar over what they see as an egregious incident of cancel culture. Seuss Enterprises’s catalog represents and supports all communities and families.” “Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong. Seuss Enterprises, working with a panel of experts, including educators, reviewed our catalog of titles and made the decision last year to cease publication and licensing of the following titles: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, If I Ran the Zoo, McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, Scrambled Eggs Super!, and The Cat’s Quizzer.
Seuss Enterprises LP, which manages the beloved author’s publishing interests, has decided to stop printing six of the author’s books.
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