Dr. Seuss Is Not Cancelled, It's Just Time To Retire Books With Racist Imagery
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
- By updating the Dr. Seuss book catalog to remove titles with insensitive imagery, the late author's estate has renewed their commitment to making reading fun for ALL people. #Colbert #ALateShow #Monologue
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“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” -Dr. Sues
08:29 is where Dr. Seuss Info starts
Thanks I was tired of hearing him talk
Thanks I was getting bored
Chad.
Thank you.
Thx I love him but just wanted hear about Dr. Seuss
"a thought came to mind, from the pit of my tummy. What if Stephen Colbert was funny?"
They should do a comedy version of this show
I know this shit is terrible
best comment
Yeah I think it could be funny if they did but idk
Right? That'd be really cool. These losers doing their AWFUL acts without an audience makes their hackiness all the more obvious.
Colbert is a sell out loser. Just look at his eyes. He lost his soul. It's really sad because I remember when he was a great guy....remember strangers with candy?
I'm Asian American and some books I liked reading as a kid were Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters and Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain. Yeah, I watched a lot of Reading Rainbow and Wishbone.
Hey, since were talking old school Reading Rainbow remember Abiyoyo??
Remember Pete Seeger read-singing that??
Omg i loved mufaros beautiful daughters!
I loved wishbone, he got me interested in reading. I miss him 😔
I'm Canadian... I remember those shows, not the specific episodes though.
Wishbone! Don't forget about Ghostwriter 😂😂
Note: the "everything's open!" tweet came from Abbott's personal account, the "reminder of the part each of us has to play" tweet came from his official account. Whatever comms staffer runs the official account had a ROUGH day.
lol omg
He announced it to the media in a public in person statement.
why do we continue to allow "authorities" to endanger, not only the citizens of their own states, but the entire country. WE NEED A NATIONAL POLICY on this thing damn it, DO IT BIDEN!
@@VanisleGirl1961 yeah, probably just didn't tell his comms people until after the fact
@@cjmacq-vg8um ahhahahahhahahahhahahahahhahaha and you called trump fascist hahahahahahha.
What kid who reads any of these books thinks, "That's racist!"??? What child gives a damn about the color of skin, unless adults control the message ... like this crap???
So in other words... Dr. Seuss is canceled
"You do that four more times Mr. and you're in big trouble... ...ok daddies taking a nap." This is the realist joke ever.
Suddenly a handful of Dr Seuss books just got very valuable.
And suddenly all those who create are on notice.
I wouldn’t be surprised if all of his books were suddenly selling at inflated prices because the people who think Fox News is a good source of news think that all of his books are being canceled, and thus are scrambling to buy his most popular books, even though they’re not going out of print.
Oh wait until Fox News, and QANN discover Dr Seus did artwork ripping the America First crowd (back then headed by Charles Lindbergh) and the ilk they followed (German Nazis, Russian Stalinists) a new one, (Dr.Seus was an OG Anti Fascist)
@@sawtooth808 STFU KAREN 🖕
Yup People already selling on eBay for THOUSANDS
"Ho, the books you can read"... Nobody expects the American Inquisition...
The genius who couldn't do his show when his speech writers went on strike
As General Hammond would say - Remove Texas from the STARGᐰTE dialing pad immediately !!
“Please tell me Baseball isn’t getting longer” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I rarely laugh aloud, but that really cracked me up. I like baseball but 9 innings really seems a few more than necessary.
It did, they just call it "Cricket."
Baseball should be played like a best of 3 series. 😂
@@JBC352 -9 innings are fine, it's when they go to a 10th-11th-12th-...........................
@@christelheadington1136 9 innings is about 5 too many
I haven't read these books so I don't know what they actually say, but if all it is is imagery and there's a valuable lesson in the words why not just redraw them and keep the message?
Good idea.
Dr Seuss was the artist for his own books, I'm not sure you can just redraw them
@@chiarag2756 Ya, I know. But it's either redraw them or lose them.
@@aureliusva i think this is one of those cases when an artist's ideology - whatever it may be - should be kept separated from the value of his art. Gauguin was a very problematic person and his own art proves it, but we still study him in schools and colleges and value his work.
Dr Seuss's work is valuable. At the same time, it's meant for kids, and I understand that a lot of his old racially charged imagery may be a problem. I think leaving the books alone but adding a sort of disclaimer may be the best course of action? Idk
One is, grasp, a chinese man eating with chopsticks!!! Egad. I mean that is just so outrageous when Chinese people usually literally eat with chopsticks. It's like Colbert using a fork.
Dr. Seuss books are seen as racist for illustrating racial stereotypes. And yet today (14-04-21), the BBC diversity department complains that Luther, played by Idriss Elba, doesn't sufficiently fit his racial stereotype by not eating Carribean food and wearing Carribean clothes. Why can't we just let everyone be?
well you see in today's woke ideology there's a right kind of racist and a wrong kind of racist
like the people who were saying showing up to things on time is a white attribute and we can't expect non-whites to be capable of such a herculean task (this is real)
@@bena1826
We white people must try and loosen our standards on everything to accommodate the false woke perception that that is how black people behave. Do black people have to do the same in reverse, I wonder? Seems to me that the woke are just enjoying the power of social manipulation. The race relations board (if it still exists) ought to be dealing with them quickly before racism returns to 1960s levels. Or can all races recognise and reject their common enemy?
@@AnnBurgess00 the woke thing is absolutely a power game. like in my example they aren't even trying to advocate for minorities, just put them in a subhuman box that they can lord over like a protected animal species.
it's beyond perverted
Stephen should've also advertised "Whose Boat Is This Boat?"
It's a funny book, no question there, but I get why he didn't promote it. His promotion was about black authors, not orange authors by accident.
@Zach Hogan 😂
I don't know, that book makes fun of the mentaly challenged. 😉
That book's no longer relevant, it's poking fun at some washed up Florida pensioner.
The title only said Dr Seuss is not canceled but it may be time to retire Boo...
I'm thinking...who is Boo ?
Boo who ? Did he live in a shoe ?
For a minute I was bummed...
... butt the feeling passed as I farted twice summed.
The Bum is out of the more oval office...once it was round.
Now haunting the Florida swamp inside out, upside down.
Asking other crocks for spank and a romp in the swamp ?
Grab your ankles and turn that
Linsey bum into a womp womp womp.
Now the Right is aghast.
Grasping at straws...
.. theyre all made of recycled paper once used for your arse
Gas ?
Propped up Dick Twitter now he's filling his diaper.
Pence feeling his neck won't be tied to the viper.
Linsey wants to be Spankies saditionist Vise.
Till that glorious day, all their nuts are on ice.
6:13 "Five strikes? Is that a thing now? Please tell me baseball isn't getting longer." 😜
To a pervert everything is perverted.
Must be nice for steve and his husband to sleep every night on a bed of money with many strapping young men
@@jackvee9094 I would not trade my poverty to be him.
You can retire books in the sense of not reading them to younglings, whilst simultaneously keeping them in print and up for sale for archival and historical purposes.
Library?
They are plenty of copies already out
What’s the point in keeping something in print that echoes ideas we want to move away from? There are plenty of copies out there for archival purposes. Let’s move on together.
That's a funny way to say "I hate black people"
@@presidentcovfefe do I know you?
I am black and I don't care. Dr.Seuss books are part of my childhood
Agreed. If you can be offended by anything in a Dr Seuss book, it's because you want to be offended by something.
@KrypTic.mp4 I bet on Biden at the very beginning of the election. I told everyone that I talked about it with that it wasn't going to be about how qualified he was, but rather about how desperate people were to get rid of Trump. I still believe he's the better option, but I expect he'll pack it in during the term and leave Harris in charge.
Honesty, I stopped reading those books since I'm a whole ass adult now, so....who cares. It's an old ass book by now. I didn't even know they still existed for sale until now.
Even if that drawing of a Chinese man eating noodles in "To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street" (who appears on only half of one page near the end) is racist, it's possible to see racist things and not be affected by them. Immediately after reading that book, I didn't run out and punch the first Chinese kid I saw.
What about the second? Cause that isn't any better
"Golden Globe Winner John Baptiste" has a nice ring to it. Congrats, my dude!
it does but I hope it'll be upgraded to "Oscar Winner Jon Batiste"! love the dude!
He's a damn good musician.
@@benzaiten933 Multiple-time Oscar Winner Jon Baptiste! I like the sound of that!
@@hailtothevic
Me too!! His music matches his smile - both brilliant. What a great performer Jon is! (btw: Batiste)
If you don't love John Batiste you should probably check your pulse.
I bet the price of those banned books just jumped in price for resale. I'm going to be on the lookout for them. I wish I already had them I would hold them. $$$$
My Seuss pick was the bitter butter battle. A better argument for the stupidity and futility of warfare and prejudice would be hard to find!
Yes, that book was timeless and classic. The Sneeches as well.
It's called The Butter Battle Book.
"I think their dad calls Don Jr. & Eric Thing 1 and Thing 2!" Hahaha 🤣
Someone wrote a comment about calling Eric "Thing Who" and now I can't find it 😂
"It doesn't help that he's the color of hellboy" I'M DEAD😂😂😂😂😂😂
It looks like his blood pressure is over 9000
On what planet do you meet a girl and grab her face like that???
@@Tha_Trigga On the Grabby McGrabberson planet, apparently! It is absolutely bizarre, I agree with you there. I can't even imagine how uncomfortable that must have been for her.
@@Tha_Trigga to quote Ron Burgundy "no touching of the hair and face"
Irish waving here. We never get a mention lol. But then we don't walk around carrying what happened in our past, nor get offended about us drinking jokes, its pretty fucking true,.
Yeah, that’s why most of you need whiskey to deal with the trauma.
@@Etatdesiege1979 The concept of some transient ‘psychological trauma’ as being the root of all undesirable behaviour or social taboos is the greatest rouse the industry of grifting psychological mental health professionals has pulled.
Addiction medicine and pharmacology has come a long way in understanding how drugs and alcohol affect people. Neurology and developmental psychology have shown how past experiences shape your future behaviours, but this illusionary idea of some ethereal scarring on your spirit provokes certain behaviours is asinine and damaging to understanding real people with real issues. It’s a marketing technique. People seek out recreational therapy in order to uncover or identify a ‘trauma’. People seek a source of problems they can offset their real issues onto: “I drink because my dad yelled a lot when I was young”.
If someone does read this, take it in the spirit it’s intended. Clearly the concept of ‘trauma’ is applicable to many people, but it has been overused and generalized to encapsulate a wide range of internal experiences. This issue is rampant in all of ‘pop psychology’. It’s not a real scientific field. It’s 95% conjecture.
@@Ssyphoned No, Adam. They drink because it makes them feel good. It's a coping mechanism. They must be coping with something. It's not just simple stimulus, response, reinforcement. Your Skinnerian reductionism is really cute to witness.
That's because your too drunk to care about anything besides being a freaking potato head.
@@Etatdesiege1979 Yes, coping with boredom. Drinking is fun, it's a cultural thing. I don't drink to cope with a trauma that my ancestors endured during centuries before I was born, I drink "cause it's Friday, you ain't got no job......and you ain't got shit to do!!"
If you dig deep enough, everyone's ancestors have gone through some rough shit. Hell, folks used to die from diarrhea not too long ago, you don't see me getting PTSD every time I get Taco Bell shits.
P.S. "They drink because it makes them feel good" And you're giving HIM shit for "Skinnerian reductionism"? How's the view from that glass house?
Also, stimulus followed by response is Pavlovian, not Skinnerian. Your pseudointellectual sense of superiority is really cute to witness.
Ahem... Dr Seuss would never use half-rhymes like "hopin'/Copeland" or "assorty/forties". His rhymes were always perfect.
Hear! Hear!
I feel sorry for the authors he recommended, because they're going to get hate they don't deserve for being compared to someone who's better than ANY other children's authors.
He's not Dr. Seuss.
What's hilariously sad is Greg Abbot thinks reopening everything will earn him major political points when it's just going to invite absolute pandemonium. And when that happens will he bother to close things up again?
Responsible Texans will know what to do............they will die.
What is your stance towards governors who have already made this move?
Yep a little early. Spring is coming.
Pandemonium yes, partly because the virus will spread, and also because now people who still want to try to keep safe will be getting into street fights with those who want to endanger them. I can image situations in the grocery store where someone in a mask, concerned for their health, will have some maskless idiot breathing down their neck, and ask them to please back up....you can imagine.
3:23 I think it's less that the scientists are sounding like parents and more that adults are acting like whiny children.
How does this video have such a good like to dislike ratio, when so many comments in the section disagree with this man?
We’re not saying you should be censored, we’re just saying that no one should be allowed to hear you. That’s not censorship or suppression. That’s just punching Nazi’s.
This is unbelievable propaganda.....no comedy.
That poor girl at the wedding reception looks, like, 17!
She was actually 31, but she does look very young -- which I'd guess is the reason Cuomo went after her.
@@ValerieJNorse well she could be lying cause that image happened in 2019 annd its now 2021. she waited until now to say this when she had 2019 and 2020 to say this.
@@katiecaddle209 -- And people like you say she's lying. And then people like you wonder, "Why don't women come forward?" Maybe because people accuse them of lying? And by the way, how do you "lie" about a perfectly plain photograph?
@@katiecaddle209 I’m a s*xual h*rassment survivor myself. The first several months after, I thought it must have been my fault and blamed myself for not speaking up when it happened (we were in a room of people). I just kept the info to myself because I figured, if it wasn’t a violent r*pe, then it probably wasn’t s*xual h*rassment or *ssault.
Eventually, a friend of mine was considering going on a date with the person who hurt me and I warned them and told them about my experience with that person.
I was laughed at and turned into a joke at the school lunch table.
So, I just kept quiet and figured that they must be right. I actually ended up becoming very interested in degrading s*xual behavior because I thought I must have deserved to be treated that way (not everyone who is into degradation has been s*xually h*rassed, this is just my experience).
It took until I was 17 (3 years after the attack) before I said anything again, and my partner told me that what happened to me wasn’t ok.
Still, to this day, only my closest friends know what happened and I can’t bring myself to tell my parents either.
A lot more goes on in someone’s head when something like this happens. Lots of questions “Did I bring this upon myself? Should I have spoken up, then? How will me speaking up affect my attacker? Is what happened to me even that big of a deal?”
I think people are taught that s*xual h*rassment and *ssault are violent and happen in private. You know... people tell girls not to be alone in a room with a guy they don’t fully know or trust. They don’t really prepare you for situations like this, something that is creepy and done in plain sight. Not to mention, I’m sure she didn’t want to make a huge scene being like “Back off!” At someone’s wedding.
I dunno, I think it’s just a lot more complicated than other people understand. That’s why a lot of people don’t report what happens to them immediately.
Oh the Books You Can Read is an amazing homage to Dr. Suess AND a shoutout to fabulous authors.
That was great!
8:33 if you're here for the Dr. Suess story
The title reminds me of the Penn and Teller skit about wealth redistribution: "I'm not taking it from you, I'm just giving it to me"
"He seceded from reality" is my new favorite quote.
Segments of the GOP created a false reality since the Reagan administration.
Me, too!
Mine too.
That’s not a quote....
@@voldemortsnipples9444 once a human has said something, technically, you can quote them.
"Don't mask with Texas" is I believe the state motto.
"The free market will regulate itself"
*The free market regulates itself*
"No not like that"
That's not the free market. The free market would be no one buying it and it taken out of print because no one was buying it. Not so a company can protect it's profits by preemptive virtue signaling via limiting the availability of an author's work it was entrusted to safeguard
@@dissonantvibe8585 So what do you suggest? Force a company to produce an outdated product even if it means bankruptcy? Sounds pretty Soviet to me lol
@@dissonantvibe8585 By "virtue signaling" you mean "exercising their right to freedom of speech". Why do you hate the First Amendment lmao
@@LisaBeergutHolst , unfortunately under current law it is their right to not print the books, but we hardly need to applaud or congratulate them. It is a troubling & sickening act. Since the author is dead, I would love to see them lose the copyright on the unprinted books after a time. In fact, I'd love to see them lose the copyright on all if it since they don't have the author's best interest at heart. I know that won't happen so I'll settle for idiots not clapping them on the back
@@LisaBeergutHolst , yes you can use your free speech to virtue signal & I can use mine to call you a cynical fool for doing so. You love to twist an issue to make yourself seem clever, don't you? I can assure you, you are not
I love that as a person of color I can now be informed of what might offend me. Now that's what I call progress!!!
It's funny that just because you post you're POC you expect everyone to believe it's true and therefore your words hold some special value. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You're right. Until I see one in real life, I'm going to have a hard time believing any intelligent person, of any color actually thinks this is a solid opening gambit.
"Might" being the keyword of your own sentence.
@@mactrek2 hey, cool it with the racist remarks please 🙄
@@bloodbased it's not racist. We literally don't know for sure that this person is a POC or some troll.
Didn’t know Don Jr. Could read lol
He was referring to the pictures, not the words. LOL
He knows it by heart. Doesn't mean he read it himself.
@@LucasGuillemette 😀😄😂🤣😅👍
Hunter can read the veins on his meat like a road map, what a talent
I'll add that Seuss himself actually changed stuff in his books before his death that he found undercut the messages he was trying to teach children. A private company doing something like this is nothing new, its just making sure that the next generations can enjoy the same books their parents did without worry of potentially harmful imagery
Are they just changing the portions of the books that don’t work today, or barring future generations from seeing the books at all?
@@namelessjedi2242 I'm pretty sure you can't ban books, they fall under free speech.
@@namelessjedi2242 I am not sure but I wouldn't be surprised if it's a mix of both
@@namelessjedi2242 They’re no longer publishing the books. Cutting off the arm because you got a damn scratch....
@@Bakemer94 no one has a right to publish a book, dingus
I'm disappointed Colbert that not even this waked you up. Where will it end?
Every rose has its thorns so get those books back out there!
I'm so glad I didnt put my phone down yet, I need a monologue before bed❤
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My notifications:
Jimmy Kimmel: "Dr Seuss is Cancelled"
Stephen Colbert: "Dr Seuss is Not Cancelled"
Dr Seuss is great. I can forgive a few moments. He was of his time.
Not cancelled because he's dead, but some of his books are cancelled because someone decided he was a racist. Next up, the game of billiards, which is all about the white ball knocking all the "balls of color" down a hole.
A couple of Dr. Seuss books are not going to be published anymore by ONE COMPANY without any outside prompt because the company thinks it would look good for its IMAGE. Hardly "cancel culture".
“What is the freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist”
Salman Rushdie
_If I Ran the Zoo,_ for example, includes stereotyped caricatures of African people and references “helpers who all wear their eyes at a slant”. For those of us neither of African heritage or Asian heritage it's easy to shrug our shoulders and say "oh man.... people need to get a sense of humor".
Ohhh, this makes so much more sense. There's no cancelling. Just "retiring." Such a better word. So glad I could get that lesson on "newspeak" from Colbert.
"Retiring"--Isn't that the same word Harrison Ford used in 'Blade Runner' as a euphemism for blowing the heads off replicants?
@@Wolf88888 Yes, that was the word... It even states the hypocricy in the intro; "this was not called execution, but...retirement."
Yes. Because 'cancelling' would suggest that other people had forced the Seuss family/company to withdraw the books.
'Retiring' is a more appropriate term for the voluntary withdrawal of the books by the publishers.
Dr Seuss was anti-fascist and anti-racist, but some of his images reflect the cultural insensitivity of his time. It makes perfect sense that his decendents would share his values and adapt them to modern sensibilities.
See their statement:
instagram.com/p/CL6khZ5BVS1/?
@@chrisrichmond1941 So, 'other people' didn't 'force' the censorship of these books? Laughable!
@@chrisrichmond1941 Yes, and 'it makes perfect sense'--if you want to live in an intellectually sterile world where free expression, individual liberty, honest education, and accurate historical accounts are all sacrificed on the altar of one-party Leftist ideology.
Watching him without a laugh track is as cringy as watching Big Bang theory without one
I live in Texas and most are not happy. And as San Antonio Mayor said," There is not a soul that thinks this is a good idea. " This is like putting gas on a fire the dying out.
Ok then people who are scared can stay inside live there life in fear and wear masks. Nobody is saying you can’t wear masks? Meanwhile people who aren’t scared can go back to normal. Everyone in Iowa and SD have been doing that for the past year 😂
Go hide inside. Nobody is asking you to go outside or to take off your mask
Im from Texas and most of us are happy
Keep wearing your 😷 and do what you can for yourself and those you care about! 🙂
No one should force you to not wear a mask. In return, you should not force everyone else to wear a mask either.
As a woman that navigated lecherous profs in college & the countless other "creep outs" all my life, This photo CREEPS ME OUT!!!!
What's sad is I know exactly why he did that and thinks it's okay. It's something that people have been ignoring for a long time. For most of my life, many people, including many (but not all) women (who do not speak for all women) state, and I quote "Women love a man with confidence!". Now, for most of my life, I have watched many men exhibit that exact behavior, branded as confidence which would be confirmed by the previously mentioned "certain women whom do not speak for all women". Basically, those women have been encouraging and supporting toxic behavior that many men seem to think is okay. Mostly due to people mixing reality with movies. (Notice how those men like that always seem to get women in movie). Sadly, this has went unchecked. That is largely in part to the fact that the specific women who encourage those men were using freedom and equality as a crutch. Using the same "my body, my right" position, which I don't think is right. For many reasons. Sorry for the wall.
And yes, that picture is haunting.
You can see her revulsion here...really creepy. Good for her for speaking out. He tried to dodge the first two, but he can't on this one. No way, Jose.
@@evanbelton1297 I am so sick of people blaming creepy behavior on "but women say they like x". No. This is NOT "confidence". Look at the photo, her body language is screaming "get away from me" and he's ignoring it.That is not confidence. It is forcing what you want on someone else without caring how they may feel about it. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together should know the difference. And frankly, if you've witnessed this sort of behavior your whole life without saying anything about it, you're part of the problem.
It's not you being super hot or anything- it happens to *all* decent-looking women.
How could there be racism in Dr Suess?
This dude is out of his mind.
Colbert?
Out of his mind on what Ms. Racist?
That's pretty racist to assume she's racist green eggs and sam.
Lol 😆 I see what you did there! And @ the person assuming I’m racist.... I’m not racist. I’m Hispanic and in my home we have a mixture of cultures 🤣😂 but thanks for trying.
The year was 1984... The thought police has taken my neighbor because of his publishing of Dr. Seuss...
Love that the book was still actually "Oh the Places You'll Go" underneath the dust jacket lololol
I noticed that too!! :)
If you didn't say it, I would have.
i was given that book when i graduated!
I saw that as well. :)
There are good reasons to continue publishing ALL Dr. Seuss books. One is so you can see the evolution of thought that happened to Dr. Seuss. Post war he went to Japan and saw the country for himself, so his view of these people changed from a one dimensional view to a much deeper appreciation of Japanese culture.
Yer. I don't think they needed to stop publishinng any of the book but i respect the family decision. Although I don't feel personally offended I can only presume others feel hurt or angered by them. I know young children may not understand the implications but adults can.
Dr. Seuss's books are deeply racist and stereotyped. Continuing publishing his books would be signaling that racism in literature is okay. His books are disgusting and horrid, they deserve to be discontinued.
@@orca._. I don’t believe they all are. I don’t believe in censorship.
@@Splexsychiick Yeah, some of the depictions of Africans are unacceptable. But these titles were by now dying a slow death anyway. I think canceling books on political grounds is not good. Let people decide for themselves.
@@benbunyip Sure, they may not all be, but undoubtedly there are ones. I, myself, a not white have experienced racism from young children. To have more young children reading about racism and believing it to be okay is a wrongdoing on my part of not pushing the stop to publishing racist Dr. Seuss books.
Dr Seuss gets canceled, but David Pulphus painting that depicts cops as pigs is hung in the Capital Building 🤮
This wasn't a decision made by the federal legislature.
So.. You think cops are an ethnic minority?
@@larryscarr1929 So.. You think stereotypical drawings that were culturally appropriate at the time should be burned (aka burning history), but hateful and anger (often violence) provoking drawings of the people that protect your streets are ok?
@@nom1329, no Larry Scarr is just saying only minorities are allowed to complain about racism & wrongful injustices!!! So basically screw everyone that isn't a minority!!!
@@stevenmeatsandwich49 except everyone is part of a marginalized group if you look hard enough.
Worth mentioning, too, that Seuss himself had in the past made almost outright racist political cartoons against Japanese people, and later publicly expressed regret for his actions, because he recognized the harm in them. (This article from Reimagining Migration goes into great detail on it- reimaginingmigration.org/dr-seuss-political-cartoons/ ) Would anyone like to tell Fox that Seuss already "cancelled" himself?
Personally, I would have preferred a removal or correction of the scenes from the books rather than retiring them altogether, but at the same, that runs the risk of whitewashing the past (pun slightly intended), so I do see where the estate is coming from.
So the original artist is dead - so its not like you can just ask him to redraw- edit the images. And a lot of his books erasing lines or changing them - wrecks the rhyme and meter of the poetry. So its easier just to retire then.
@@lissaquon607 Oh, good point! I was kind of imagining they could bring in people to emulate his style, but it definitely makes a lot more sense thinking about that from the perspective of the estate preserving his work!
We should be able to recognize when people have changed.
God Almighty! A Chinese man eating with sticks! As an Asian I am mortally offended! I eat with sticks every day.. should I be worried that I am offending you, idiots ? 🤦
@@vsirrmk "I'm an Asian who eats with sticks every day!"
>Your channel is a bunch of playlists in Russian with videos in Russian and a guy comments on your channel saying "Russian people, remember the Orthodox church!"
like this was already a shitty argument to begin with but you could at least try harder to pretend you're the target of these caricatures. The issue's clearly not about a stereotype about Russians.
bro whoever is in the back wheezing at your jokes is killing me
His wife and crew I believe!
Paid employee made to laugh
It's all forced laughter...this is just awful
You can see beneath the jacket cover on the modified book that he is really reading from "oh the places you'll go". What a creative switch!
To think, those were the jokes that actually made it to air...
I don't even think they cut out any jokes anymore. It's just. They scribble whatever they are told.
LOL!!! Such a great point!!! How does anyone find this shit even slightly clever????
This is about as funny as watching paint dry.....
@@captkilljoy hey don’t insult paint like that. Hehe.
It is shockingly bad.
Don Jr. “literally knows the cat and the hat” lol
He was referring to the pictures, not the words. LOL.
Is he worse than SR. ?? Worst human ever? #stolefromkidscancercharity
it's been so long since I read it, the only thing I really remember is that the moral is to clean up your mess after you're done playing.
You might not be able to buy "If i ran a Zoo". But you can still buy Mein Kampf. Get your copy today were ever books are sold. Especially Amazon.
Exactly. I suppose there is some kind of rational for that.
" The doctrine that education should be controlled by the state is consistent with the NAZI or communist theory of government. "
-Nathaniel Branden-
@@benbunyip rationale*
Yes, no one is under the impression that you should give Mein Kampf to children.
Also, it's not distributed by the same company.
@@Mythraen Good point.
Yes. Let us ban all of history. That wil teach them!
From an european point of view, I can tell you it's a dangerous slope when you begin to ban books, even more when those are children's books.
they're not banning books. the seuss estate that is in charge of the book's sales and its image chose not to reprint those books. no one has banned shit. the government never commented on this, these are private citizens choosing what's better for their business and public image. don't compare two unrelated issues.
@@sheila1411 Wrong, Amazon is removing specific books (every books which make the slightest criticism of progressive ideology) and ending their commercialisation on their platform (aka banning them). This has the effect of forcing publishers to not potentially publish books on the same subject because amazon book selling is a big market, the biggest in the US (those fat ass can't even move their greasy carcasses to a real book store anymore). Of course they have the right to do it, but this is exactly what you would do if you want an ideology to prevail, choke the criticism.
@@fuckednegativemind I'm sorry you, presumably an adult, can't read six specific kids books anymore and that's the hill you're willing to die on, so many priorities
As an Asian myself I'm not offended with dr. Seuss and the fact that I saw a bunch of people without any Asian gene complaining how racist is one of my favorites reading is a proof of how insane this thing is
It’s pissing me off.
Did anyone else notice that Steven actually had a copy of "Oh The Places You'll Go" under that dust jacket?
Yup
I guess his show can't write, edit, then print a book in a couple of hours. Shameful laziness. :(
Michelle Obama says she loves Dr Seuss, so she's a racist.
The reason you cant get your stimulus checks is because the dems are busy canceling dr seuss and mr potato head
@@LowerYourExpectationsPleb What? Hasbro and Dr. Seuss INC. made those decisions, not congress. This wasn't a blib on the radar in congress until some dumb people brought it up and tried to cancel culture these COMPANY decisions.
Also, Lincoln was killed by a confederate sympathizer, not a democrat.
@@LowerYourExpectationsPleb Amazing how you've learned to type before learning to read.
Ending the Covid rules in Texas is one way to make everyone forget about the power outages.
Not me - that was where my mind went when I first heard this news, as in "Oh, yeah, because you guys know SO much about pandemic safety, just like you know SO much about keeping the grid going in the winter."
They couldn't even give their people electricity and drinkable water. _NOW_ the douchebags want to open everything like we all aren't going through a crisis?
Exactly. It's a page out of the Trump playbook: end talk of one dirty thing you did by waving your hands a lot and making a new scene over there instead. It works too. The media eat it up.
I think upping the economy after a power outage is more important than distracting people for petty reasons such as that.
They only killed DOZENS with the privatized utilities. Eliminating all covid protections should be more efficient.
So sad when none of the books actually caused any damage to kids nor did I hear a kid become racist because of the books. The creators have been bullied by ignorant and all too sensitive people. They think that’s gonna stop racism. I mean there are far more pressing matters that harm kids, like human trafficking, drugging kids at a young age.... this alone makes criminals, not stable kids, kids with depression... i mean common lets not be stupid here!!! I read cinderella books around 500 times when i was young. Never for once did i question why cinderella was white. The thought of racism never occurred to me. I had friends from every colour. I treated everyone as my friend. Lets not make something out of nothing.
There is something called implicit bias. Read about it.
Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato head this year, what yal betting on next year?! I remember reading all these as a kid and now I read them to my kids, not once did I ever seek offensive material nor did I find any offensive material
Texas has reminded us that they haven't learned from their last disaster
Just gotta say, the muffled laughter from the background makes the show
Totally agree!!!
Def these comedic punchlines don’t hit with out a reaction
Hits a ton better than the old laughtrack that's for sure.
Much agreement, love the interactions with the crew
So much better than the audience
"Stephen Colbert isn't cringe and unfunny, he just need needs his applause sign and a live audience!"
Colbert isn’t “cringe?”
Okay. 🙄
@@LanceAnderson77 my lord, bless your heart and take my hand, my comment is glib sarcasm and a criticism of Colbert using his own video title style........
He’s plenty cringe
I’m gonna order ALL the Dr Seuss banned books.
That make you feel like a man?
@@bernardsoul5186 first of all I'm female. Second what?????
@@thelilacmum You know "what."
@@bernardsoul5186 how dare you assume this person’s gender, you should be cancelled!!😡
Don n Eric: “Thing 1 and Thing 2”. LOL BURN. 😂 🔥
that struck me as probably sooo true it will cause a family rift that it got out.
@Idiotic Beyond Measure I was thinking the same thing!
Best joke of the monologue lol
The GOP "forgets" they cancelled Dr.Suess & The Lorax years ago for being environmental. I'm sadly not kidding, it's on banned book lists.
Oh wait until the GOP finds out Dr.Seus was a rabid anti fascist (!) go to University of California’s San Diego Library website to peruse the entire collection.
But it looks like the company is trying to whitewash Seuss reputation by removing racist cartoons.
Also what you call "antifascist" was more simply pro-war propaganda. This included smearing the conservative isolationists but also calling the japanese-americans a terrorist 5th column.
The problem is the Woke left are acting like fascist now. It won't stop here.
@@bobbyb9258 No, it looks like a company making a change in what books they want to publish.
@David Winehouse Because things that were not viewed as problematic in the past (stereotyping people from different cultures) can later be seen as problematic as society develops. This perception includes the people who own the very intellectual properties in question.
It’s time to retire _you,_ Colbert
Didnt the Nazis ban books? Just sayin'. Oh! And burned them also.
Porn and evil propaganda should be banned. The books in question are very limited in promoting negative influence.
Maybe the people of Idaho can burn all their books after they've finished with their masks.
They also disarmed their citizens, implemented government control of health care and education, were a socialist regime, replaced the police with their own social workers.. and spewed propaganda turning neighbors, friends and families against each other. Sound familiar? 🤔
*The Butter Battle Book is literally about the nuclear arms race between the US and The Soviet Union Cold War*
And Yertle the Turtle is an allegory about Hitler.
YUP and part of history that shouldn't be erased because people are a bunch of soft pussies..
So we should cancel it, right? Better to forget it ever happened and sweep what we don't like under the rug
And?
@@dieseldabz7104 can you name the six titles that will no longer be published? Maybe only one I bet. They're literally his least popular books.
I know he was joking, but drive-ins would REALLY hit right about now. haven't been to one in like 10 years and if there were ever a time for them to return, it's now.
That's an amazing idea. I mean, we can always Netflix and chill in our cars.
I like this idea 🙂👍
@@Wednesdaywoe1975 -- And you know, all you would need is a big parking lot and an over-priced popcorn stand and everyone could watch their own movie on their phone/tablet!
Light pollution is actually a problem there.
YESSSSS! Drive In's are awesome!!!!
dr seuss is not cancelled, his beats were just too good for this world
I am so looking forward for my roller skating rink to open.
It's wild how conservatives state they support private property rights and simultaneously refuse to wear their masks in private establishments that require them. 🤷♂️
@Kevin L I tried to think of something witty, but no, I cannot fathom how such a situation would play out. In more serious terms, the current fracture in political ideologies simply isn't sustainable. I'm curious to see where this leads them, because their more extremist elements have already turned a significant portion of the country off their agenda. It's pretty hard to see how they remain relevant in the future if they continue that course, especially as public interests continue to move farther away from those antiquated ideas.
That said, I don't imagine the left is far behind that either. The split between progressives and moderates is widening, and it's interesting to see how that changes in the next few years.
@@jesterscupcake Voter suppression and physical threats against viable candidates of the other party are two ways of doing it, and is exactly what is happening. The first one has been around a long time, the second one is gaining on the first.
No different from Republicans who support the right of businesses to choose who to serve, then getting butt hurt when those businesses don't want to serve *them*.
@@emc2304 - Not really, since even the left leaning Democrats are for a mixed market social democracy based in capitalism (aka the Nordic model).
Newsflash- Actual socialists aren't Democrats.
@@emc2304 do you think capitalism is perfect? democrats admit that and try to fix it, Republican party just lives in denia because they would lose donners. Even if you're a republican the 2 major complaints from them right now are big Tech and "cancel culture", those are not government actions it's the free market in action.
I think Don and Eric should be “Thing 1 and Thing who?”
Isn't the Biden the one who said he was okay with Uyghur concentration camps?
In terms of who's who, who does that? Nobody, like Joe Biden.
@@9751matt Oh my personal favorite Dr Seus book is “American First Granny reading Adolph The Big Bad Wolf to the children” (Dr Seus had lots of love for Nazis, Stalinists, and Charles Lindbergh {Narrator: Actually he hated them with the fire of 1000 suns})
Some still can’t The Trumps out if their head. Apparently too distracted to see the real issues . Now you cannot describe someone without it being racist now. You left voted for this
🤣🤣🤣
You must have the brain of a 5 year old
I was hysterical laughing at the grinding 😂. I love when bad jokes are pushed to far !!
Not bad jokes but a bad comedian
Then you should love stevie hes a bigger joke then JOkE bidden heels up harris and the orange man all rolled into one
Whether you think the books should be pulled or not I think we can all agree that politicians need to shut the fuck up about this.
to put Dr Seuss' books in context, "and to think it happened on mulberry street" was written in 1937. Brown vs Board of Education stopped official school segregation in 1954.
Funny, I don't remember that book advocating for school segregation 🤔
@@capttrips1523 sorry, didn't know I would have to spell it out for people. Dr Seuss started writing while african americans were still officially second class citizens.
@@kenbrown2808 so did a lot of people.
Not relevant to the situation. The company that prints his books decided to stop printing 6 of his books. They’re citing hurtful content but the reality is that the books in question had some of the worst sales of all the books dr Seuss has written, those 6 books are on their way to being sold out... the rest are flying off the shelf as well. It’s a trick, you’ve been tricked... all the people who are upset about this have been tricked. All the people buying up the books due to this stunt have been tricked.
Trying to give apologetic context to racism doesn’t shine the light of innocence on you. Racism is still largely socially acceptable in America. Pretending that it’s not indicates either naïveté or guilt, there’s no middle road in the situation.
@@godwantsplastic do you feel better, now? the books are still older than desegregation, older than WWII, and older than most people alive, today. most books that old have long since gone out of print.
As a childhood educator with an emphasis in reading I can tell you that there has never been anyone as important to Childhood Education as Dr. Seuss. He took reading for young children from Dick and Jane, which they children hated, to stories and books with material that excited and fulfilled young children. Yes, some things need to be looked at and corrected. I sincerely hope that whoever is doing this work are the best trained, most experienced professional educators in this field rather than professionals at selling more books. To damage the flow and amazing, unique writing and art would be a desecration of probably the best writer since Shakespeare. This is true when you look at the demographic. Children love him and routinely learn to read more easily when they are engaged with the content of the book.
I think there are still enough Dr Seuss books, even with these books being "retired". Children will have plenty left to learn from. Plus, it's the 21st century, young impressionable minds should be exposed to books that have a message of inclusivity.
Yeah.. but now children are going to grow up knowing that Dr. Suess created 6 racist books..
Just until it until those kids watch Dumbo or South Park.
They will need years of therapy
@Wolong Gong you do know the others don't like you
Retire is a woke way of saying destroy.
ocd4lane but impressionable minds being exposed to think that being a drag queen is normal and picking their own sex is okay though right?
10:52 "Thing 1 and Thing 2" I'm pissing my pants over here !
We are free to choose not to buy or read Dr Seuss books are we not? Well no we are not! Not free at all.
If there's one industry that should be permanently eliminated, it's cruise ships. Just a major waste of fossil fuels.
Hey roller rinks were THE place to be in the 70’s. Man I miss the 70’s.
Agreed
Damn straight. Every time I hear Blondie's "Heart of Glass" I'm back in time, mentally lacing up my skates for another humiliating, wall-hugging trip around the rink.
Don't worry, roller skating is only have a "Renaissance" because of gentrification. Same reason save the turtles, mom jeans and crocs are popular again. It's never too late to lace back up and check out a local rink. It's just as fun as you remember and a hell of a lot easier on the knees than running.
And 80's!!!
Rosalie’s Rink in Joliet was the top hangout for those of us in junior high in the late ‘70s!
Watching this without the laugh track is brutal.
would not be a problem if he was funny......... there are many sitcoms without laugh track, and they are great.........this is just another TDS moron.... like his pal kimmel
really is, just shows colberts literally been phoning in his late show job for years.
But Colbert doesn't need a laugh when he's a funny guy. Maybe Republicans just can't take a joke. Unless they make a joke their President that is lol
"they don't gotta burn a book they just remove them" Who knew Rage Against the Machine was talking about Dr. Seuss....this shit is getting crazy.
"Not cancelled" just "retired"
Yeah just like my parents telling me my dog was sent to a farm.
It's funny they keep saying republicans are nazis but they keep doing nazi like shit.
@@joemerlin152 facts, it's crazy how the supposedly peaceful and inclusive left are the ones that act like authoritarian nazis
@@joemerlin152 Yeah facts. No longer publishing a book is exactly the same as burning them.
@@eamonsherris-watt6118 censorship is top of fascists checklist. After the murdering of political dissidents and making 'unpatriotic' citizens disappear. Much like communists...brothers from a different mother.
You mean not dealing with your reality
One thing I've missed over the past year: Jon's piano 'plinks' when Stephen puts aside one of his mime 'props'. :-(
Yeah :(
:(
I can't tell if Jon is really religious or if he is really gay. I don't care either way, outside of curiosity for true information. Would it make a difference in my perception of Jon? Certainly. That is not a bad thing in and of itself. I'd take lessons on piano from the man.
PS If I knew he was gay, I'd hug him. If I knew he was religious, I'd try not to affront him. Someone told me he was a Black man. The keys are black and white so it's a grey area, right? Even the evil judge. Consider that.
If my plaints are meandering: I'm brain injured. I've been in the light. I let myself meander to avoid constricting consciousness. Stream of thought let through; as easily a possible for me. I believe in God, yet God does not exist. We are that "thing".
How does a comic excuse censorship?
These books have zero racist imagery
Dang! I never knew "Flesh of the Innocent" was an option...
It's a write-in choice...
Don Jr = proof that Republicans don't listen. The Cat In the Hat is not one of the books on the list.
No, but there have been suggestions that the Cat in the Hat character is a representation of blackface, which I find patently ridiculous.
@@lastguyminn2324 Who is suggesting that!? That is ridiculous.
@@raynemichelle2996
I wish I could remember who said it. I read it earlier today. I believe it was a representative of a national library association.
As a child I never thought that the cat in the hat was black, why? Because he is a cat. I never saw a cat having race.
That wasn't Don Jr. It was Thing 1.
The late night show promoting book burning great work hahaha🤡😷 don't forget to wear your mask
Dr. Seuss gets cancelled...one of the most innocent of books-series....world problems everyone.