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The book was cited as one of the Dr. Seuss titles that the estate decided to stop publishing, which the speaker defended the right to distribute despite potential offensive illustrations.
i would have just gotten up here and i just would have read it because again even if i don't love those particular images even i could see why somebody might find them offensive they have not offended...
— Episode: Ep. 1210 - Princess Woke vs. The Monarch...
Episode: Ep. 1210 - Princess Woke vs. The Monarchy
The book was cited as one of the Dr. Seuss titles that the estate decided to stop publishing, which the speaker defended the right to distribute despite potential offensive illustrations.
i would have just gotten up here and i just would have read it because again even if i don't love those particular images even i could see why somebody might find them offensive they have not offended generations of children or made anybody racist
i'm willing to defend if i ran the zoo as a book i am willing to defend the
Episode: Ep. 1207 - The Book Burners Are Here
This book was among the six Dr. Seuss titles being ceased from publication due to hurtful and wrong portrayals. The speaker strongly defended it, noting that no one honestly came away from reading it with racist opinions.
and if I ran the zoo, which is a great book.
No one has ever honestly come by that opinion. No one. OK, the only way you come by that opinion is if some woke jackass decides that they're going to make it an issue and then shame you into believing that that's what that page is about.
If I ran the zoo was going for one thousand five hundred dollars a copy yesterday, which makes it a better investment than the US dollar at this point.
In it a young boy imagines what he'd do with the local zoo where he in charge. It's Seuss. So the boys conjurings are wild weird creatures whose names rhyme with their points of origin.
In the Seuss drawing the bird thing is perched on a pole being held by two caricatures of African men that are so obviously and immediately racist that it was almost breathtaking.
Episode: Ep. 1206 - Why They're Cancelling Dr. Seuss
The speaker mentioned this as one of Dr. Seuss's first major books that the foundation decided to stop selling due to perceived racist or insensitive depictions, specifically regarding characters of Asiatic appearance.
if i ran the zoo because there are people of asiatic appearance in the book if i ran the zoo