I think Seuss would have been in favor of his offensive works being removed
He wrote books about how we're destroying the environment through rampant industry and consumerism.
He wrote books about being kind to people [i]because[/i] of our differences.
He went back and edited his old books to make them less offensive because he felt regret that his work would ever make anyone feel bad about themselves.
You wanna know what shitting on someone's legacy looks like?
Posting that kind of image and thinking Seuss wouldn't be in favor or removing anything offensive from his work is what shitting on someone's legacy looks like.
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That's a bit extreme. Five of the six books were so long-forgotten they were effectively out of print anyway, and it was his own estate that made the decision. And this isn't unprecedented. Good luck trying to watch Song of the South--Disney stopped making that available decades ago. Times change.
For the record, Dr. Seuss hated America First types. He has a couple famous cartoons clearly equating them to Nazis.
@MalteseFalconPunch On rereading, I think I misunderstood the point of your post. I thought the image you posted was your view, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
@MalteseFalconPunch That's well said. I wouldn't defend his specific caricatures, but they look really different today than they did 80 years ago. And would any of us want to be judged on the worst things we ever said or wrote--if our whole subsequent history was different? I'm glad a few things I did in college never saw the light of day.
