pianogonzology: Right . . .

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Right . . .

. . . or wrong

https://www.careerindia.com/tips/the-10-rules-of-creative-writing-019226.html

. . . Kudos to Dr. Seuss Enterprises for trying to do the proper thing. . .

(from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/books/dr-seuss-mulberry-street.html)

". . . Six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published because of their use of offensive imagery, according to the business that oversees the estate of the children’s author and illustrator. . . Dr. Seuss Enterprises said that it had decided last year to end publication and licensing of the books by Theodor Seuss Geisel. The titles include his first book writing under the pen name Dr. Seuss, “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” (1937), and “If I Ran the Zoo” (1950). . . “These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises said in the statement. The business said the decision came after working with a panel of experts, including educators, and reviewing its catalog of titles. . . Mr. Geisel drew political cartoons for a New York-based newspaper, PM, from 1941 to 1943, including some that used harmful stereotypes to caricature Japanese and Japanese-Americans. Decades later, he said he was embarrassed by the cartoons, which he said were “full of snap judgments that every political cartoonist has to make.”. . . "