Dr. Seuss: Oh, the Books You'll Burn!

Six Dr. Seuss Books To Stop Being Printed As Biden Cuts Author From Read Across America Day https://t.co/YppzEBksX2 pic.twitter.com/e9F7BB8k3U

— The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) March 2, 2021

From The Daily Wire:

The company that publishes Dr. Seuss books will stop selling six titles, citing racist and insensitive imagery.

“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement.

“Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ catalog represents and supports all communities and families,” the company told the outlet in a statement Tuesday, which just happens to be the birthday of Dr. Seuss, whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel.

The company that seeks to preserve and protect the author’s works said they will no longer publish “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” “If I Ran the Zoo,” “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!,” and “The Cat’s Quizzer.”

...President Joe Biden on Monday avoided mentioning Dr. Seuss in his presidential proclamation for Read Across America Day, which is celebrated on the author’s birthday. The move was a far cry from his former boss, Barack Obama.

In the former president’s 2014 proclamation, he said Dr. Seuss’ stories “challenge dictators and discrimination. They call us to open our minds, to take responsibility for ourselves and our planet.”

In 2015, Obama said: “The works of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known to us as Dr. Seuss, have sparked a love for reading in generations of students. His whimsical wordplay and curious characters inspire children to dream big and remind readers of all ages that ‘a person’s a person no matter how small.”

And in 2016, Obama said Seuss was “one of America’s revered wordsmiths” who “used his incredible talent to instill in his most impressionable readers universal values we all hold dear.”

Quite a dramatic about-face!

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— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 2, 2021

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss, you purveyor of hurtful and wrong images!