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Originally Posted by Roger Slater
...you could have an adorable Nazi cartoon figure, or a slave delighted with his servitude and loving his massa, and no one would have the right to object unless we could point to children who read these books and turned into Nazis and slave apologists.
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I agree, Roger, that those cartoons would be extremely offensive. (And how many people in the world these days would actually buy a book like that?) But from what McWhorter said about
On Beyond Zebra!, there doesn't seem to be anything even remotely close to such depictions in Dr. Seuss's book. And I'm curious to read it, but now it's a collector's item and way out of my price range. It's not the end of the world if I can't read it, though. And I agree if the publisher chooses to not publish it anymore, fine. It’s their book. But I get the feeling that they were humoring or pandering to what McWhorter calls “The Elect.” If you read that chapter I linked to in my post #17, you'll have a better sense of what that term refers to.