cancel culture

[HONDO74]

I figured it was only a matter of time before many others would feel the wrath of the cancel culture

They didn't teach us this in school about John Muir did they. They only had good things to say about the man and he was always placed on a pedestal. Now the pedestal has cracks in it...

Sierra Club reckons with the racism of founder John Muir
https://news.yahoo.com/sierra-club-john ... 29801.html

Amid the ongoing cultural reckoning over Confederate statues, the Sierra Club announced on Wednesday that it will consider renaming or pulling down monuments dedicated to its founder, the iconic conservationist John Muir.

Muir, who was known as “the father of our national parks” and a “wilderness prophet,” founded the Sierra Club in 1892. The organization fought to preserve Yosemite Valley and other land that became national parks.

But Muir also made derogatory comments about Black and indigenous people that “continue to hurt and alienate” people of color, Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune said in a statement posted to the group’s website early Wednesday.

“As defenders of Black life pull down Confederate monuments across the country, we must also take this moment to reexamine our past and our substantial role in perpetuating white supremacy,” Brune wrote. “It’s time to take down some of our own monuments, starting with some truth-telling about the Sierra Club’s early history.”

According to a lengthy profile of Muir published by Atlas Obscura, Muir “regarded Native Americans as subhuman,” calling them “dirty” and “lazy.” According to the Washington Post, he “once referred to African-Americans as lazy ‘Sambos,’ a racist pejorative that many black people consider to be even more offensive than the N-word.”

[HONDO74]

Biden erases Dr. Seuss from 'Read Across America' proclamation as progressives seek to cancel beloved author
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden- ... oclamation

Biden's snub of Dr. Seuss comes as progressives have sought to cancel the beloved children's author

President Biden appears to have erased Dr. Seuss from "Read Across America Day", the annual celebration of reading in honor of the legendary children's author, whose birthday falls on March 2.

While Biden followed presidential tradition in proclaiming Tuesday "Read Across America Day," he bucked his predecessors by leaving out any mention of Dr. Seuss from the proclamation.

The White House didn't immediately return a request for comment on why Dr. Seuss was left out of the proclamation, but the snub comes as progressives have sought to cancel the beloved children's author.

One of Virginia's biggest school districts, Loudoun County Public Schools, reportedly nixed Dr. Seuss from the school's "Read Across America Day" celebration, citing alleged racial "undertones" in his children's books.

[gregj410]

Ironically here I am reading my 2 month old granddaughter Robert the red rose horse by Dr Seuss. When we finished that we read he bear she bear.



Maybe the 58 genders could come up with their own series, now that would be a novel idea. I can help with a few titles. One fish two fish gender confused fish. Maybe he bear she bear and sis gender trans bear?

They too could sit on the shelf collecting fly shit right next to Hillary Rod Ham Clinton’s book ‘What happened’ I can tell you what happened. You have lost your mind and......



Screw Biden and the CC. People are suffering and this is the best Libs can come up with?

[HONDO74]

6 Dr. Seuss books won’t be published for racist images
https://www.ky3.com/2021/03/02/6-dr-seu ... st-images/

n 2017, a school librarian in Cambridge, Massachusetts, criticized a gift of 10 Seuss books from first lady Melania Trump, saying many of his works were “steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes.”

In 2018, a Dr. Seuss museum in his hometown of Springfield removed a mural that included an Asian stereotype.

Numerous other popular children’s series have been criticized in recent years for alleged racism.

In the 2007 book, “Should We Burn Babar?,” the author and educator Herbert R. Kohl contended that the “Babar the Elephant” books were celebrations of colonialism because of how the title character leaves the jungle and later returns to “civilize” his fellow animals.

One of the books, “Babar’s Travels,” was removed from the shelves of a British library in 2012 because of its alleged stereotypes of Africans. Critics also have faulted the “Curious George” books for their premise of a white man bringing home a monkey from Africa.

And Laura Ingalls Wilder’s portrayals of Native Americans in her “Little House On the Prairie” novels have been faulted so often that the American Library Association removed her name in 2018 from a lifetime achievement award it gives out each year.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Wow, gregj, that's you ? Not at all what I pictured. How nice.
daMurph

[robert.]

Looks like he and the infant use the same barber

[Neil]

There are fine barbers on both sides of this issue.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

There are fine barbers on both sides of this issue.

[gregj410]