The Dark Art of Dr. Seuss (Every Banned Work)

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  • Опубликовано: 5 янв 2025

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  • @AntSugar
    @AntSugar 3 месяца назад +2159

    2:30 queer just meant weird/odd like gay used to be used to mean happy

    • @thebestnoob9336
      @thebestnoob9336 3 месяца назад +281

      It did? How queer!

    • @megareavermickeybot7985
      @megareavermickeybot7985 3 месяца назад +123

      That's right Language realy changed within these recent years..
      I think what happened was people started stereotyping the term gay with Homosexuality tothe point to where no one wanted to be caleld gay or they would be made fun of so it would up being used more for Homosexuials.
      There are other words that's definition realy changted oveer the years but some I can't say publicly due to them being far to controversial and people being so rash about it.
      That's a key factor if you ask me, of whatrealy does change our lanuage so quickly is how impulsive and toxic people behave about what words you use. I want time called some Toilate paper Tissue and my dad sais that soundeed dorky or sissy and that your supposed to call it CleanEx...........Why can't we just be more Open minded about things?

    • @Thelast1here..
      @Thelast1here.. 3 месяца назад +8

      ikr

    • @sage3830
      @sage3830 3 месяца назад +33

      That’s true. If it didn’t The Hobbit would have some explaining to do

    • @Nerdtendo6366
      @Nerdtendo6366 3 месяца назад +38

      I remember when my entire class learned that gay used to mean happy back in 3rd grade and instantly everyone turned to me and said “Nerdtendo, you’re gay!”

  • @HermitKing731
    @HermitKing731 3 месяца назад +3266

    Horton hears a jew.

    • @Raymi20-
      @Raymi20- 3 месяца назад +110

      Nahhh ☠️🙏

    • @RobertPedtke-kx4ze
      @RobertPedtke-kx4ze 3 месяца назад

      Horton hears a who❌
      Hitler hears a Jew. ✅

    • @familymclean5297
      @familymclean5297 3 месяца назад

      Hitler hears a jew*

    • @ragadropenger8623
      @ragadropenger8623 3 месяца назад +198

      Hortler

    • @geoffreyrichards6079
      @geoffreyrichards6079 3 месяца назад +38

      If you know the backstory behind the book’s intention, it’s more-so Japanese and postwar regret.

  • @captainironbat8193
    @captainironbat8193 3 месяца назад +1507

    You'll have to remember that queer didn't mean homosexual back in the 1940-50s it just meant odd or unusual.

    • @Tadfafty
      @Tadfafty 3 месяца назад +76

      It meant both, but this is going for the "odd or unusual" meaning.

    • @societywasamistake
      @societywasamistake 2 месяца назад +33

      crazy that they chose the word that meant odd or unusual for the word for homosexual

    • @everyonesplace1267
      @everyonesplace1267 2 месяца назад +21

      ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@societywasamistake it was originally a derogative term, but it was reclaimed and now isnt derogative! =D

    • @Minhir4th
      @Minhir4th 2 месяца назад +4

      in 1914 was when it started being used as a derogatory word for homosexual more commonly

    • @everyonesplace1267
      @everyonesplace1267 2 месяца назад +2

      @@Minhir4th more commonly, however still not that common. queer meaning ‘weird’ fits more in this context.

  • @geoffreyrichards6079
    @geoffreyrichards6079 3 месяца назад +740

    As people age, their perspectives and beliefs often evolve, and Dr. Seuss was no exception. Over time, he became more aware of his own past mistakes and reflected these realizations in his later works. For instance, "Horton Hears a Who!" is widely seen as his response to having supported Japanese internment camps, while "The Lorax" illustrates his growing concern that unchecked progress may come with harmful consequences.

    • @ahoyforsenchou7288
      @ahoyforsenchou7288 2 месяца назад +1

      All of society supported Franklin Delano Roosevelt's - the biggest traitor in 20th century American history - war crimes back then. And then when the "good guys" won the war, they got to exclude all their ills. Same applies to Churchill whom waged war over being enticed by Jewish gold.
      Let's not pretend like Seuss is an outlier.

    • @lachicoblanco
      @lachicoblanco Месяц назад

      progressives are anti-climate change. "progress" isn't the problem.

  • @thekoifishcoyote8762
    @thekoifishcoyote8762 3 месяца назад +921

    This is something missing from a lot of modern stuff. Being unbiased is impossible, but you kept yourself calm and tried to keep it objective. Take your like.

    • @sadsnow8040
      @sadsnow8040 3 месяца назад +61

      I thought that said take your life 😭😭😭💀

    • @SussyMoogusImpostor
      @SussyMoogusImpostor 3 месяца назад +9

      @@sadsnow8040 Imma take my life for keeping myself calm and objective💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

  • @SUB-IN-SUPER
    @SUB-IN-SUPER 3 месяца назад +398

    My name is Lorax, I speak for the trees.
    I don't know how, but they are speaking vietnamese.

  • @GooberBoi6000
    @GooberBoi6000 2 месяца назад +371

    This entire video is the embodiment of taking things and stretching them too far out😭

    • @Diplopoda08
      @Diplopoda08 2 месяца назад +5

      Your pfp goes so hard i love red dead

    • @nidhu595
      @nidhu595 Месяц назад +1

      absolutely!

    • @Penguin1400
      @Penguin1400 Месяц назад +17

      fr bro this guy prob lives on twitter 😂. just cuz the book said one females name doesnt mean he was calling all females less creative then boys like tf 😭

    • @Aresisverytired
      @Aresisverytired 26 дней назад

      @@Penguin1400 there was still alot of racist stuff so dr. Sues still did bad stuff

  • @leyu7917
    @leyu7917 2 месяца назад +53

    "CALLING TOKYO, HELP! CALLING TOKYO, HELP!" I really felt that one.

  • @Yakkymania
    @Yakkymania 3 месяца назад +342

    I feel like these books could still be sold, but with that same “offensive by today’s standards but acceptable for its time” content warning that Disney & Warner put in front of their old cartoons, although that probably wouldn’t work as well as it does for those since Dr. Seuss’s books were aimed at smaller children

    • @VaporwaveStudio
      @VaporwaveStudio 2 месяца назад +2

      Yeah, that probably could be problematic but then censorship on the cartoons in the book might be hard too, and then censorship of the whole book sucks bc of all the other stuff inside

    • @HarryHarshman
      @HarryHarshman 2 месяца назад +5

      ​@@VaporwaveStudio personally, I don't think it should be censored. Maybe just harder to access like online exclusive so it can only be bought by adults reading descriptions and things, like a educational purpose thing

    • @VaporwaveStudio
      @VaporwaveStudio 2 месяца назад

      @@HarryHarshman that’s a great idea!

    • @nidhu595
      @nidhu595 Месяц назад

      they arent ever really that offensive, people are just really sensitive these days, but I think they should just be labeled as something like PG for movies

  • @Ladondorf
    @Ladondorf 2 месяца назад +361

    This video misrepresents and/or does not explain the context of the works.
    - At 1:25, to say that the quote suggests girls are less creative than boys is a stretch.
    - At 1:36, many of the depictions of foreign characters shown here are inoffensive. I can't imagine anyone who would be upset at "Australian fish".
    - At 2:28, the word "fat" is being used in reference to the animals, not to people.
    - Also at 2:28, The word "queer" used to be a synonym for "weird". Its use has nothing to do with being gay.
    - The comic at 6:05 does not depict an "Asian American kid". It is a representation of the United States exporting oil to Imperial Japan.
    - At 7:28, The comparison between "Our Job in Japan" and "The Sneetches" makes no sense. The message of "Our Job in Japan" is that although Japanese people have been led astray by government propaganda, they are fundamentally equal to everyone else. "The Sneetches" was a satire of prejudice, and the character in the clip is meant to be a villain, not a representation of Seuss's beliefs. If the point of comparison is that both works are anti-prejudice, that is not made clear.
    - Seuss later wrote "Horton Hears a Who" as an apology for his earlier prejudice against the Japanese.

    • @WS48L
      @WS48L 2 месяца назад +29

      ok even if fat was being used to describe someone, how is that bad??

    • @Ladondorf
      @Ladondorf 2 месяца назад +22

      @@WS48L It's not lol

    • @PizzamemesOfficial
      @PizzamemesOfficial 2 месяца назад +18

      @@WS48L it isnt
      this dude is trying to get a dead man in drama 😭😭

    • @WS48L
      @WS48L 2 месяца назад +6

      @@PizzamemesOfficial fr let bro rest in peace

    • @IzayoiArwena
      @IzayoiArwena 2 месяца назад +7

      HELL.YES!!! I like the Fish diversity, who would have a problem with that?

  • @artism9780
    @artism9780 3 месяца назад +111

    4:10 Most of them were directed by Chuck Jones. That’s basically how Chuck and Dr. Seuss knew each other and made the Grinch TV Special and the Horton TV Special. I also use to have the Cat’s Quizzers book.

  • @HowieDewitt535
    @HowieDewitt535 3 месяца назад +97

    2:28 Okay, queer is not being used badly here. It literally just means weird. "That's mighty queer!"

    • @PizzamemesOfficial
      @PizzamemesOfficial 2 месяца назад +4

      “Do I look queer in this outfit”

    • @rudyisabot
      @rudyisabot 2 месяца назад +4

      @@PizzamemesOfficial Dude stop asking queer questions.

    • @PizzamemesOfficial
      @PizzamemesOfficial 2 месяца назад +6

      @@rudyisabot my comment got deleted for “cyberbullying” 😭😭
      yt moderation sucks

  • @dustygage5518
    @dustygage5518 3 месяца назад +253

    Original vine boom 😂8:09

    • @zaxseer
      @zaxseer 3 месяца назад +37

      No more fortnite!

    • @Thenoobyone2981
      @Thenoobyone2981 3 месяца назад +23

      @@zaxseer KABOOM

    • @kattybratt1353
      @kattybratt1353 3 месяца назад +33

      ALL OUR FOOD IS BLOWING UP

    • @theredpanda00
      @theredpanda00 3 месяца назад +4

      @@kattybratt1353 💥

    • @oliver_editzz61
      @oliver_editzz61 2 месяца назад +5

      Sounds like the Roblox rocket launcher sound

  • @barttheraven
    @barttheraven 3 месяца назад +87

    I love how you showed off two of his self-portraits at the end.

  • @Postal3isntthatbad
    @Postal3isntthatbad 3 месяца назад +27

    “Here ya are slant eyes” - bugs bunny

    • @DkCAB001
      @DkCAB001 Месяц назад +1

      Postal isnt that bad. alrighty

  • @HoogleHoogleson2
    @HoogleHoogleson2 2 месяца назад +28

    I READ MCELLIGOTS POOL AS KID. It was my favorite book, I had no idea it was discontinued.

    • @steveschindler2802
      @steveschindler2802 Месяц назад +3

      Many years ago I used to own a tropical fish store. My sister was a kindergarten teacher at the local elementary school. Every year on Dr Seuss day the school would have people come in from the community and read a story to the classes. It didn't have to be a Doctor Seuss book but most people read one anyway. I was reading for my sister's class and the first two years I chose Mcelligot's Pool since I owned a pet shop and a lot of the kids knew me from there. In the third and fourth year we had to let them know in advance which book we would be reading which wasn't that big of a deal. For a couple more years I submitted that I was going to be reading Mcelligot's Pool and it was approved. All of a sudden one year they came along and said I couldn't read that. I told them sorry then I can't do it this year. My sister told me that a lot of the regular readers turn down the request because they weren't allowed to read their favorite books and unfortunately that was the last year for a very popular day at the school

  • @NorthernSea121
    @NorthernSea121 3 месяца назад +279

    I still have all of the censored kids books. Personally, my take on it is that it's OK to just depict other races in a non judgemental way. I feel like the Persian, Russian, asian, and African helpers in "If I Ran A Zoo" show more cultural unity than anything, in that we are all people who can and should help others. Additionally, the words "fat" and "queer" are still used a lot where I'm from because they haven't taken on hatefull meanings everywhere. I really think that we have to stop censoring books that don't conform with everybody's expectations because all that does is damage society. Sorry for the schizo rant

    • @parker-boy98
      @parker-boy98 3 месяца назад +39

      I completely agree! Censorship does no good, if anything, it creates ignorance!

    • @jacktaktical
      @jacktaktical 3 месяца назад +19

      Censorship creates entitlement

    • @psycholaw4394
      @psycholaw4394 3 месяца назад +17

      ​@jacktaktical entitlement leads to anger

    • @a.e_man78789
      @a.e_man78789 3 месяца назад +17

      ​@@psycholaw4394 anger leads to hate

    • @Eisenbogen
      @Eisenbogen 3 месяца назад +19

      @@a.e_man78789 and hate leads to suffering

  • @Keepitsavage21
    @Keepitsavage21 3 месяца назад +36

    Mel blanc who voiced bugs bunny sure put his heart and soul into these dr. Seuss propaganda films 😅

  • @InSaiki.kBasement
    @InSaiki.kBasement 2 месяца назад +87

    0:16 HE WROTE HARD R AINT NO WAY 😨

    • @AbdAlHakamJunaid
      @AbdAlHakamJunaid 2 месяца назад +2

      WHERE?

    • @everyonesplace1267
      @everyonesplace1267 2 месяца назад +5

      @@AbdAlHakamJunaid bottom of the page

    • @AbdAlHakamJunaid
      @AbdAlHakamJunaid 2 месяца назад

      ​@@everyonesplace1267 "A high-grade Ni-"

    • @GooberBoi6000
      @GooberBoi6000 2 месяца назад

      I do believe that R was hard

    • @kumoric
      @kumoric 2 месяца назад +8

      I can’t really see it, but it’s not that hard to believe, given the time period. Saying that word was socially accepted at the time

  • @Nexurian
    @Nexurian Месяц назад +5

    If I ran the zoo is quite important, it invented the word Nerd.

  • @shirleymaemattthews4862
    @shirleymaemattthews4862 3 месяца назад +88

    Imagine some guy drawing anime fanart the same way Dr. Seuss Drew Japanese peple during ww2? 🤔

    • @geoffreyrichards6079
      @geoffreyrichards6079 3 месяца назад +6

      Probably more grotesque, but some artists kinda prefer that style of character design. Has a bit more personality to it.

    • @shirleymaemattthews4862
      @shirleymaemattthews4862 3 месяца назад +2

      @@geoffreyrichards6079 So..like with slanty eyes and large ugly bucked teeth? What If the artist also drew that stuff to poke fun of Japanese OTAKUS and weebs and the bad side of anime?

    • @geoffreyrichards6079
      @geoffreyrichards6079 3 месяца назад +10

      @@shirleymaemattthews4862 No, I meant the more grotesque style of character design overall. The anime style has been criticized by some for looking too clean and samey by some cartoonists, to the point where character personalities are almost interchangeable.

    • @shirleymaemattthews4862
      @shirleymaemattthews4862 3 месяца назад

      @@geoffreyrichards6079 oh..how does that have to do with what I said? But yeah, makes sense as wel.

    • @geoffreyrichards6079
      @geoffreyrichards6079 3 месяца назад +4

      @@shirleymaemattthews4862 I was trying to describe what you were inquiring about.

  • @Kittytries
    @Kittytries 3 месяца назад +31

    0:28 my mom owns the “and to think I saw it on mulberry street” one, didn’t know it was canceled

    • @Raeisabigrat
      @Raeisabigrat 2 месяца назад +2

      I remember reading that book I never knew it was canceled either

    • @erik_dk842
      @erik_dk842 2 месяца назад +4

      That's why physical copies are needed, online versions can be cancelled in a split second

  • @Distortion-726
    @Distortion-726 3 месяца назад +117

    King definition: the MALE ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth
    There are no women kings, like actually. He is right when saying only women queens, good lord.

    • @Yakkymania
      @Yakkymania 3 месяца назад +26

      Hatshepsut of Egypt was technically a female king, though. But in modern terms, yes, he would be right

    • @roastbeef2335
      @roastbeef2335 3 месяца назад +25

      I think that part was a joke

    • @gvhgnjhg1387
      @gvhgnjhg1387 3 месяца назад +12

      He's referencing the movie Woman King, obviously

    • @JokerLover123
      @JokerLover123 3 месяца назад +8

      It was a a joke.

    • @solventman8307
      @solventman8307 3 месяца назад +11

      Jadwiga in Poland was a king, not a queen.

  • @Projection_
    @Projection_ 2 месяца назад +12

    I think in terms of preservation of media, it is good that we can still have these to refer to from a historical context. Nothing against Seuss in particular, he was trying to help his country.

    • @ZombieSlayerBO2
      @ZombieSlayerBO2 5 дней назад

      make fun of the IJA and IJN all you want, it's definitely deserved, but what I don't understand is the blatant racism against the people of those lands, even those we Americans allied to during the war.

    • @sirbacon1617
      @sirbacon1617 3 дня назад

      ​@@ZombieSlayerBO2Because the us citizens hated Japan as a whole after being attacked.

  • @voidhumor2740
    @voidhumor2740 3 месяца назад +30

    this feels like a lot of seething for nothing

    • @sirbacon1617
      @sirbacon1617 3 дня назад

      Fr

    • @subsamadhi
      @subsamadhi 15 часов назад

      The family decided to remove the content numbnuts. They OWN IT

  • @wieldylattice3015
    @wieldylattice3015 3 месяца назад +17

    “There are not woman kings, only queens,”
    Dr. Suess casually ignoring several pharaohs

    • @Pato-yc6ii
      @Pato-yc6ii 3 месяца назад +6

      That is right a woman is a queen not a king

    • @wieldylattice3015
      @wieldylattice3015 3 месяца назад +3

      @@Pato-yc6ii Historically because the Pharaoh system was only built for kings, women who came into power in ancient Egypt at a certain point were Las referred to as kings and even art depicting them often try to rewrite them as male

    • @Redacted_Theorist
      @Redacted_Theorist 2 месяца назад +1

      Yeah, but everyone in Egypt just kinda coped hard and pretended they were male. A lot of art depicting them more masculine, makeup to make them seem more male.

    • @gryficowa
      @gryficowa 2 месяца назад

      @@Pato-yc6ii You are insulting the Polish King Jadwiga...

    • @EvilSpellsOfDoom
      @EvilSpellsOfDoom Месяц назад

      No woman kings in the west. You know, where Dr. Suess was from. He wasn't necessarily known to be Egyptian.

  • @geoffreyrichards6079
    @geoffreyrichards6079 3 месяца назад +23

    What’s interesting is that Dr. Seuss himself was aware of the criticisms his books sometimes got and oftentimes met them. The “Chinaman” in the “Mulberry Street” book, for example, was edited in later editions to be less offensive, like removing the stereotypical ponytail and yellow skin. But in today’s culture, I guess that isn’t enough.

    • @megarigged
      @megarigged 3 месяца назад +6

      I mean, it's literally a slur, and he's compared to all types of fantastical scenarios when at that point, it's just a guy...

    • @geoffreyrichards6079
      @geoffreyrichards6079 3 месяца назад +2

      @@megarigged I recall there being other normal-ish individuals being imagined up in the book. I guess back in the days when segregated neighborhoods were more commonplace, even normal individuals of different ethnic backgrounds were seen as exotic. I can’t really blame them for thinking that way if that’s the environment they were living in.

    • @megarigged
      @megarigged 3 месяца назад +1

      @@geoffreyrichards6079 Yes, that's exactly why it's offensive. It's wrong to market "a Chinese man who eats with sticks" as being as wacky as a real magician or a 10-foot-long beard.

    • @geoffreyrichards6079
      @geoffreyrichards6079 3 месяца назад +1

      @@megarigged Magicians and people with long beards also exist, to be fair. For them, that’s perfectly normal.

    • @megarigged
      @megarigged 3 месяца назад +8

      @@geoffreyrichards6079 You can't seriously be entertaining this. Those are objectively rare sights that are interesting. Chinese people are not a sight to behold. They're just people.

  • @christheone248
    @christheone248 2 месяца назад +6

    I grew up on this, and all I can say is that I really hate all this banning of books and the whole PC BS!

  • @Your-Local-Cookie
    @Your-Local-Cookie 2 месяца назад +5

    I remember reading "And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street" and "McElligot's Pool" when I was a kid. It's crazy knowing that they're discontinued now

  • @Portalwolf_8
    @Portalwolf_8 3 месяца назад +26

    0:41 that’s internet humor before the internet 💀💀💀

  • @Itsamemaro
    @Itsamemaro 2 месяца назад +6

    2:29 saying fat in a book os not why it got cancelled. Also queer means odd, that is also not why it got cancelled. Some of these points seem like a stretch. Saying girls are less creative than boys seems like a really big stretch because it refers to one girl, and doesn't mean all girls are uncreative.

  • @Kaybeeguy
    @Kaybeeguy 5 дней назад

    Man, didn't realize Seuss' older works were that dark.
    It is interesting to look at these from a historical context however.

  • @tristen224
    @tristen224 3 месяца назад +17

    This video is going to perform so well! The video and writing are pure quality, and the thumbnail and title presentation are perfection. Great job!

    • @beze9632
      @beze9632 Месяц назад

      Ok, bot

    • @tristen224
      @tristen224 Месяц назад

      @@beze9632 lol you idiot, I commented that when this video had barely any views. How far did you scroll to search for my comment, sad waste of time.

    • @tristen224
      @tristen224 Месяц назад

      @@beze9632 When I commented this, the video had barely any views and the channel had much less subscribers. What made you waste your time scrolling to find my comment, and what compelled you to reply?

  • @Thor-Torpedo25
    @Thor-Torpedo25 2 месяца назад +6

    I was very aware of his cartoon strips and most of his banned books but I didn’t know about the films he made, the more you know…

  • @cocoman577
    @cocoman577 3 месяца назад +15

    I think dr. Souss believed in what he wrote and draw in his books of preserving nature and treating people kind regardless if they got a star on their belly or not its just a huge sad event like that can make anyone or even everyone say and do bad things

  • @justintang2294
    @justintang2294 3 месяца назад +12

    These are all the more ironic considering Seuss and his family were of German-Jewish descent.

    • @gryficowa
      @gryficowa 2 месяца назад

      After what I saw (Jews supporting Israel's crimes), it is no longer funny but sad...

  • @efeugurYT
    @efeugurYT 3 месяца назад +15

    He would be cancelled if he still lived

    • @dejus_e
      @dejus_e 2 месяца назад +5

      Well..duh. He even did get cancelled once. It’s in the video.

  • @willatom
    @willatom 3 месяца назад +11

    i read the mulberry street one once, didnt even know it was cancelled.

    • @jaybanyan4417
      @jaybanyan4417 3 месяца назад +1

      They read this at my elementary school for all of us for Dr suess’ birthday

  • @rodcab2973
    @rodcab2973 3 месяца назад +77

    Thank you for presenting the information as you did and letting us, the viewers, come to our own conclusion.

    • @ahuiliztliac
      @ahuiliztliac 2 месяца назад +9

      He mispresented a lot of them

    • @SaiyanGamer95
      @SaiyanGamer95 2 месяца назад +4

      A lot of the stuff shown were either misrepresented, taken out of context, or was just in bad faith.

    • @beze9632
      @beze9632 Месяц назад

      Ok, bot

  • @strikerfett6624
    @strikerfett6624 Месяц назад +1

    Gotta say the delivery og that all fouled up was absolute fucking perfection

  • @orionsuniversepart2932
    @orionsuniversepart2932 2 месяца назад +2

    If I were to summarize his life from my perspective, Seuss’ earlier works basically correspond to what the public thought of at the time prior to the Second World War. But, in his later stage, his works have a sense of reflection and wisdom, and a hope for a better world; at least that is what I presume.

  • @puppydragon254
    @puppydragon254 2 месяца назад +1

    Isn’t Eskimo an outdated term? I heard that natives in places where they were called that prefer to be called Inuit or…I don’t remember the other one

  • @Snedwin
    @Snedwin 3 месяца назад +58

    Bro, I'm a 100% opened to the possibility that I may be the problem, but I don't see too many wrongs here. The US was at war with Japan. Of course they weren't gonna be portrayed in a flattering way when he was making animations for the army.

    • @gryficowa
      @gryficowa 2 месяца назад

      Because the USA did something to fight the Nazis... You probably believe it, but as a person from Poland I will say one thing: They didn't do anything

    • @R3ALISMx
      @R3ALISMx 2 месяца назад +3

      so right, like theyre trying to win not lose

    • @erik_dk842
      @erik_dk842 2 месяца назад

      Back then, they put the Japanese in camps, today they let hating muslims in in millions and let them be senators and congress members

    • @SaiyanGamer95
      @SaiyanGamer95 2 месяца назад +5

      It's also not uncommon to dehumanize the enemy in times of war. There's also the fact that many people in America were angry at the Japanese for Pearl Harbor. Similar feelings towards people of Middle-Eastern descent rose up as a result of 9/11.
      Also, many other media also used racial stereotypes towards the Japanese, including DC and Marvel comics.

    • @R3ALISMx
      @R3ALISMx 2 месяца назад

      @@SaiyanGamer95 yeah so its not like hes a horrible person, he was just doing his duty as a leading citizen of the US

  • @judgedbytime
    @judgedbytime 26 дней назад

    His good ideas guided good people's whole lives, making them much less susceptible to modern manipulation. This makes cancelling him more than just a convenience.

  • @lilrunt-u2h
    @lilrunt-u2h 3 месяца назад +25

    2:24 why the kid reading right there sound like Bart Simpson for real

  • @Wallyworld30
    @Wallyworld30 Месяц назад

    4:46 "Stick em up or I'll blow your brains out" is downright hilarious!

  • @brandonnguyen6718
    @brandonnguyen6718 3 месяца назад +19

    If you want some more examples of women who were rulers and beared the title of King.
    There aren't a lot of examples (because most female rulers were queens, empress, tsarinas and the works) but they exist.
    - King Jadwiga, first female monarch of Poland. She married a grand-duke of Lithuania, which would found a centuries long union between the two kingdoms. She didn't really do much because, well... she kinda died when she was 25.
    - Emperor Wu Zetian, the only woman Emperor of China. A lot people called her Empress nowadays, but the Chinese word for Empress meant wife of the Emperor, which she was before she ruled, but when she came into power on her own(replacing her son which ruled as her puppet) they called her Emperor. She did... a lot. Way too much for me to list here. But unlike Jadwiga, she died a grandma still bossing around her kids. Not the best mother, but hey, effective ruler.

  • @F0r3ver_L0st
    @F0r3ver_L0st 3 месяца назад +20

    I think the proper term is Inuit

    • @jacktaktical
      @jacktaktical 3 месяца назад +1

      Ironic ain't it

    • @erik_dk842
      @erik_dk842 2 месяца назад +3

      That'll be outlawed, too.

    • @ZombieSlayerBO2
      @ZombieSlayerBO2 5 дней назад

      @@erik_dk842 give it 30 years.

    • @erik_dk842
      @erik_dk842 5 дней назад

      @@ZombieSlayerBO2 In 2020, Denmark went into a frenzy over "Kæmpe Eskimo" ice cream, with companies like Hansens Is caving to what some call "woke" culture by renaming it to "O'Payo" due to the term "Eskimo" being seen as offensive. Critics argue this was an overreaction, turning a harmless ice cream name into a symbol of unnecessary political correctness. Even Premier Is eventually changed their product name to "Kæmpe Solbær," bowing to the pressure of cancel culture and ignoring decades of tradition for the sake of appeasing a vocal minority.

  • @lilrunt-u2h
    @lilrunt-u2h 3 месяца назад +6

    The first one is in band. I literally read that in school when I was there

  • @lucas8385
    @lucas8385 2 месяца назад +5

    Don't ask what Dr.seuss did between 1939-1945

  • @RichardStarfish
    @RichardStarfish Месяц назад +5

    2:28
    Ok you got me hooked and already have me convinced that Seuss isn’t what he seems, but come on “he said fat and queer”
    Really 🤦

  • @luigi_boy
    @luigi_boy 2 месяца назад +34

    Fat? so the word FAT offends people now? We should now ban the word THIN now

    • @Pseudo_Sage
      @Pseudo_Sage Месяц назад +6

      As someone who hit 294 or so like 3 years ago, FUCK NO. Every single day I was embarrassingly fat, I was not only okay with being called so, but the sentiment that it isnt hateful and harmful to say so. Yes it hurts feelings, feelings mean virtually nothing in the social efficiency of adults. Not only that, but if I were to accept my lifestyle and choices, rather than criticize and ridicule them (with a little, but definitely not enough outside influence), I'd probably still be a fat fuck who's unconfident, withdrawn from many physical potentials, and I'd probably still be single to be quite blunt
      Consistently been at 183 or so for months now, and it irrefutably has helped in most metrics, including the emotions people are so afraid to hurt nowadays

    • @rionthemagnificent2971
      @rionthemagnificent2971 Месяц назад

      @@Pseudo_Sage Tell that to the feeder fetish originated Fat acceptance movement.. Yea the toxic fat acceptance people was started by someone who was into morbidly obese women as a sexual kink.

  • @zinogre6225
    @zinogre6225 Месяц назад +1

    I don’t think any of these should be banned. Some, like the pond one, weren’t even really that bad, and the ones that are horrible are also history and should be remembered for what they are rather than erased. Obviously they shouldn’t be sold in the kids section at the local library but they also shouldn’t be erased from the public eye.

  • @stellamariaviennehorton1017
    @stellamariaviennehorton1017 3 месяца назад +27

    This is certainly interesting information, and, as is typical with any person I’ve met, it initially makes me want to categorize him as a good or bad person, but I am going to not do that, because I’m trying to get better at knowing that everyone is complicated

  • @CanOBeanz1809
    @CanOBeanz1809 3 месяца назад +12

    Why are people getting angry at Doc for saying that Women cannot be kings and only queens? It’s true. Have you ever heard of a male queen?

    • @gryficowa
      @gryficowa 2 месяца назад

      Jadwiga?

    • @gryficowa
      @gryficowa 2 месяца назад +1

      "When Louis died, his daughter Hedwig of Anjou took the throne. When she came to Poland from Hungary, she was only 10 years old. Shortly after her arrival in 1384, she was crowned, with the consent of the Polish lords, and took her father's title of king of Poland (not queen!)"

    • @gryficowa
      @gryficowa 2 месяца назад +1

      So it's misleading, a woman could have been king lol

    • @CanOBeanz1809
      @CanOBeanz1809 2 месяца назад +1

      Huh I didn’t know that actually. You could argue though that she took her Father’s title. I’m not entirely sure how it works.

    • @gryficowa
      @gryficowa 2 месяца назад +1

      @@CanOBeanz1809 But this proves him wrong

  • @lawrencelewis2592
    @lawrencelewis2592 2 месяца назад +2

    The Snafu films were training films for army personnel and were not intended for the general public. They really weren't propaganda as such, no more than anything else at the time.

  • @DJGREENBOY
    @DJGREENBOY 24 дня назад +2

    Based Dr. Seuss

  • @Raeisabigrat
    @Raeisabigrat 2 месяца назад +1

    It’s always so odd to see these things and remember that his drawings and writing were probably just normal back then

  • @TumehStudios
    @TumehStudios 25 дней назад

    funny how my school signs dr. seuss songs at a music class

  • @reasonablebutcrazy
    @reasonablebutcrazy 3 месяца назад +43

    Slant eye and monkey face are not ok to say today, but those words were common back in the day

    • @Curly_Kroll
      @Curly_Kroll 2 месяца назад +7

      I still say it

    • @5tr4wberrys0da
      @5tr4wberrys0da 2 месяца назад +6

      @@Curly_Kroll😭

    • @erik_dk842
      @erik_dk842 2 месяца назад

      @@5tr4wberrys0da Are you a fat 60-year old male identifying as a strong and brave young woman? Like "Admiral" Richard Levine

    •  29 дней назад

      Spittin' FACTS

    • @basillah7650
      @basillah7650 16 дней назад +1

      they still ok to stay today a woke company took over and tried to erase history when they just freeloading off others work.

  • @craftboy041
    @craftboy041 2 месяца назад +2

    Fun Fact: "And to think I saw it on Mulberry Street" appeared in the book "Six by Seuss"

  • @hunterhose347
    @hunterhose347 2 месяца назад +1

    He was a product of the time so you can’t judge his less than desirable work to work from now because we didn’t live to see the the sentiment back then

  • @themaskedmandate3633
    @themaskedmandate3633 Месяц назад

    Fun Fact Cartoons back then were made for adults but then started making cartoons for children after seeing how entertaining they were.

  • @MajinNoob1
    @MajinNoob1 2 месяца назад +9

    WHAT WAS HIS BEEF WITH JAPANESE, KOREAN AND CHINESE 😭🙏🙏

    • @TJ-hg6op
      @TJ-hg6op 2 месяца назад +2

      I think we know

  • @hendersonfisher2743
    @hendersonfisher2743 2 месяца назад +5

    I don’t understand how the fishing one is at all offensive, or the cats quizzes

  • @West_Coast_Mainline
    @West_Coast_Mainline 2 месяца назад +4

    SNAFU, BINGO BANGO 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

  • @SolarSillySolace
    @SolarSillySolace 2 месяца назад +3

    3:24 king jadwiga of Poland was female. Pretty interesting story of how it happened, basically the king that was there before tried to have a son but he was unsuccessful, and polish law and the time said something along the lines of “queens can’t rule Poland” or something to that extent, and the loop hole was “well what if they were just a king?” And there you have it.

  • @DanielWeidner-li2yf
    @DanielWeidner-li2yf 3 месяца назад +4

    I actually one 3 of these discontinued books, I didn't know they were rare.

  • @thetinkerer1242
    @thetinkerer1242 3 месяца назад +13

    This is a very professional video, It really deserves more views.

    • @roderickmalkinshakespearec9908
      @roderickmalkinshakespearec9908 2 месяца назад

      Would be better without the implied 'woke' implication that Seuss had a 'dark' i.e. bad side that should be tisk-tisked by us moderns, rather than his works being judged by the values of the culture at the time. The narrator's tone of voice is a bit too condescending for my liking. There is certainly no issue re modern public institutions choosing to not include certain publications as being inappropriate for modern educational purposes, but let's not pompously demonize certain people in history who merely reflected the mores of their time. Certainly we can judge our current culture, as much improved! We have come a long way.

  • @grahamcracker7958
    @grahamcracker7958 2 месяца назад +2

    Queer just meant odd back then.
    A lot of these aren't even meant to be offensive, your just looking at it in a weird way. For instance, the "Jane" part isn't bad. It's just a person.

  • @itsmytoast666
    @itsmytoast666 3 месяца назад +5

    Some of this is due to how we change over time. It's sad to view the past under the same ideologies people celebrate today - not everything is meant to be hurtful.

  • @tormentakid
    @tormentakid 2 месяца назад +47

    is it just me or does this video feel like ai? and I don't mean just the narration voices. the music feels weirdly generic and unrelated, a lot of the script is just listing things, a lot of them ignoring context which makes the more serious ones seem less important. either that or it's just so low effort (which the former would also imply). how queer.

  • @evilchild1851
    @evilchild1851 2 месяца назад +6

    2:30 No need to bring Queer up, it wasnt widely used as a derogatory back then. It’s same reason for why the word “gay” is in the Flintstones theme

    • @Alex-fb4tl
      @Alex-fb4tl 2 месяца назад +2

      Y’all are really concerning me clearly he wasn’t saying it was offensive. He was saying that’s one of the reasons I got banned so probably later on people found it offensive. Please use your listening ears.

    • @swurrytwo
      @swurrytwo Месяц назад

      @@Alex-fb4tl still, that's no purpose in banning the book, and that probably was not the reason why it did. Dr. Seuss never intended the word in that meaning.

    • @CraigFThompson
      @CraigFThompson 6 дней назад +1

      🎼🎶🎵 "Twistin', twistin', everybody feeling GAY; twistin', twistin', twisting the night away! 🎵🎶🎼

  • @grannylovespoopoo-hm9xv
    @grannylovespoopoo-hm9xv 2 месяца назад +2

    my grandparents own the mulberry street one

  • @Oak_II
    @Oak_II 2 месяца назад +3

    2:29 The word queer was a standard English word at the time, it meant "weird". U can also find the word in the lord of the rings trilogy. And the word fat has only recently started to be seen as an insult. Now I know that this video is untrustworthy.

  • @WindartheWarrior
    @WindartheWarrior 3 месяца назад +2

    I remember reading 'if I ran the zoo'

  • @gabe_s_videos
    @gabe_s_videos Месяц назад +1

    I genuinely wasn't sure what was in those books that made them ban-worthy, but I assumed it wasn't anything egregiously offensive, more "in bad taste" than anything, and that's what they seem like to me. The stereotypes and jokes are far from the worst I've ever seen and some of them were probably well-intentioned at the time, but given the choice between having an impressionable child see them and take them at face value and just not letting them see it, I'd say the latter is the most practical choice. Besides, the man wrote sixty books in his lifetime, I don't think it would be a great loss to "only" have access to 54 of them (and let's be honest: nearly all of them are better anyway).
    But I guess "not being reprinted any more because they have a couple of off-colored jokes in them that are now considered to be inappropriate for children" is not as catchy or succinct as "banned."

  • @theclownkingdom
    @theclownkingdom 3 месяца назад +5

    Back in the day, queer didn’t mean what it means now, it meant weird in general, like, if someone didn’t have a working eye my nan would say: oh he has a queer eye!

    • @TJ-hg6op
      @TJ-hg6op 2 месяца назад +1

      It meant odd, strange, or unusual as you said. Now, it mostly means just different or interesting

  • @Afatbirdcommenting
    @Afatbirdcommenting 2 месяца назад +1

    The Doctor in the 1940s was crazy ☠️😭🙏

  • @slushy8141
    @slushy8141 2 месяца назад +1

    i remember reading a book like “And go Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” it was about a zoo im pretty sure

  • @lego_minifig
    @lego_minifig 2 месяца назад +1

    The Zoo one was a banger growing up. It’s a heavily stylized illustration style. I don’t see the stereotyping as much of an issue considering the lack of globalization at the time. It was an easy way to convey to the audience diversity and a bit of exoticism of the unfamiliar with artistic shorthand. Sure that method is looked down on today, but we live in a global society with free flowing information at the tips of our fingers. As a result of this globalism, we no longer need to rely on over-exaggerated stereotypes as we can demystify, research and remove the artificial exoticness more easily and accurately thanks to the internet. To purge these historic works simply because it is considered distasteful today is just sad. We cannot force current ideals on past works as our experiences are completely different.

  • @ericweissenborn
    @ericweissenborn 2 месяца назад +9

    These books should not have been banned. How dumb

    • @ZombieSlayerBO2
      @ZombieSlayerBO2 5 дней назад

      I mean I disagree, at least his politically charged ones.

  • @teslainvestah5003
    @teslainvestah5003 Месяц назад +1

    There is nothing wrong with mulberry street. Discontinuing it was insane and stupid. Obviously he was cornered and pressured by insane people.
    And the Chinese do eat with chopsticks, and they are proud of this, and would never be offended by this.
    Also, the kid only implied that his sister was less imaginative than him, which is true of half of all siblings at random.
    Has Dr Seuss never heard of revising a book?

  • @BriBryBriBry
    @BriBryBriBry Месяц назад +1

    Well of course he's going to make the enemy out to look dumb and stupid..? Why would they want him to make the enemy look good? It's not like they were nice and friendly? 😂🤦‍♂️

  • @feelgoodink5005
    @feelgoodink5005 2 месяца назад +2

    It was a different time I don’t think anyone at the time would have been offended. In modern day we know better and I understand why the books and other media is inexcusable.

  • @BANANAsuit231_eggs
    @BANANAsuit231_eggs 3 месяца назад +10

    Wdym “and to think I saw it on mulberry street” was banned? I saw it in my school library

    • @nfglegos
      @nfglegos 3 месяца назад +3

      I seen all 6 banned books in my local library, so I guess the library didn't want to remove them.

    • @RyuSpike
      @RyuSpike 3 месяца назад +8

      @@nfglegos A good number of libraries and librarians do their best to keep most books safe from the ban hammer. Books are kinda important for them.

    • @Tadfafty
      @Tadfafty 3 месяца назад +2

      From printing, nothing said they had to be taken out of libraries.

    • @BANANAsuit231_eggs
      @BANANAsuit231_eggs 2 месяца назад

      I never expected to see these replies a week later!

  • @christiancarpenter5567
    @christiancarpenter5567 2 месяца назад +5

    I agree with some of those things being bad, but you also have to take into account that Japan was evil in WW2. They have mellowed out in todays time, but back then, they literally teamed up with Nazis. And they boiled Chinese babies. But Im not sure if the animations were intended to be racist, but more of to make fun of the Japanese army at the time for how evil they were. In much the same way we nowadays make fun of Russia, North Korea and Arab countries with evil leadership. -Thats kind of the perspective I hold on a lot of that stuff. Let me know youre thoughts on that.

    • @CraigFThompson
      @CraigFThompson 6 дней назад

      However, so unlike the Germans of today, the Japanese take NO RESPONSIBILITY WHATSOEVER for their actions during WW2!!

  • @SpagettiStain
    @SpagettiStain 2 месяца назад +2

    I own a big red book that has most of these stories

  • @deanpesaturo6401
    @deanpesaturo6401 Месяц назад +7

    Aren’t We All Just a Little Bit Too sensitive over these kids books by Dr. Suess? Cancel culture at work again! I’m pretty sure he didn’t mean queer like they would have us believe. He meant odd things not literally sexual orientation. Woke mob takes every single thing literal. I’ve grown up with his books and never believed whatever group is pushing down our throats about it relative to them in particular. C’mon now. Obviously the taboo subjects are outdated, but historically they were a landmark series from the Dr.

  • @trainiac365
    @trainiac365 2 дня назад +1

    We all clicked on this video because of the dr Seuss version of hitler

  • @allisonhardy6
    @allisonhardy6 2 месяца назад +1

    For some reason I remember "And to Think That I Saw It on MULBERRY SRTEET" even though it was probably banned before I was born

  • @berserker3440
    @berserker3440 3 месяца назад +3

    Bro rly brought up the woman king

  • @CXRPSE-bw8ml
    @CXRPSE-bw8ml 2 месяца назад +1

    This vid is lit nuts 😭like yes he drew stuff thats not up standard of today but this js jus stretching stuff way to far

  • @mrvomit101
    @mrvomit101 Месяц назад +1

    2:30 I know I'm not the first to say it, it meant an odd/strange, or even sometimes shady kind of fellow.

  • @princegroove
    @princegroove Месяц назад

    The good ole days before people walked on eggshells.

  • @lukerocheleau9173
    @lukerocheleau9173 29 дней назад

    If only he was as righteous as us.

  • @stevenkral4782
    @stevenkral4782 2 месяца назад +3

    Not very hurtful just people got too sensitive

  • @lise1255
    @lise1255 2 месяца назад +3

    A pity that some easy offended snowflakes can't take the historical time in consideration when they are outraged about almost everything 😢.

  • @RandomWolfKid_1
    @RandomWolfKid_1 2 месяца назад +3

    2:05 Teacher read the book to me and my class in yr 2 lol

  • @drumsdotcorndotcomdotorg
    @drumsdotcorndotcomdotorg 2 месяца назад +4

    its funny cuz this isnt even that odd for the time. disney had plenty of propaganda animations too during ww2, though probably a little less racist.