Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced Tuesday they are no longer reproducing six Dr. Seuss classics (“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”) because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.”It will come as news to generations of Dr. Seuss's readers that as children they were reading books that promoted hatred, violence and discrimination, but the PC sleuths at Dr. Seuss Enterprises and ebay would be pleased to enlighten them.
President Joe Biden also refused to acknowledge Dr. Seuss in his remarks on Read Across America Day, a departure from a White House tradition even former President Barack Obama upheld.
After the banning, owners of the six books began listing copies for up to tens of thousands of dollars on online retailers like eBay and Amazon. Arkansas native Carol Carson was trying to sell a copy of “And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street” on eBay until her listing was taken down on Thursday.
A screenshot Carson shared with the Examiner shows a message from eBay explaining her book was delisted because “it didn’t follow our Offensive material policy. Listings that promote or glorify hatred, violence, or discrimination aren’t allowed.”
For the PC crowd there's no molehill so small and insignificant that it can't be transformed into a mountain.
The stupidity of ebay's decision is even more apparent when one looks at what else they're evidently okay with. A cursory scan of a few book titles shows that one can still buy the antisemitic diatribes of Louis Farrakhan, the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and Adolf Hitler's even more infamous Mein Kampf.
You can’t make this stuff up. @eBay is blocking my listing of @DrSeuss’s “The Cat’s Quizzer” & citing it as offensive material. Yet anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan’s books are okay? #cancelcancelculture pic.twitter.com/9Au62lagcW
— Clare Ath (@clare_ath) March 4, 2021
What exactly is @eBay’s policy on “hate and discrimination”? Dr Seuss is apparently out, but Mein Kampf still fetches a pretty penny! pic.twitter.com/Y6pN1cH9UI
— Thomas Chatterton Williams 🌍 🎧 (@thomaschattwill) March 4, 2021
The thought police at ebay deem books that "promote or glorify hatred, violence or discrimination" to be completely unacceptable unless they promote or glorify hatred, violence or discrimination against Jews. Then ebay is happy to list them.
Dr. Seuss is intolerable, Adolf Hitler is okay. Is this what passes for logic and commonsense in contemporary liberaldom?