Thursday, March 04, 2021

BIG TECH BOOK BURNING ..... AND BIDEN CANCELS DR. SEUSS TOO

'You can't make this stuff up': Outrage as eBay REMOVES listings for canceled Dr Seuss books 'because they glorify violence' but allows copies of Mein Kampf and Louis Farrakhan's books to be sold

 

Daily Mail 

March 4, 2021

 

 

Ebay on Thursday started removing listings for the six Dr Seuss books that are no longer going to be produced. They emailed people who had listed the books, saying that the post violated their 'offensive materials policy'. The company has not released any kind of statement about it, nor have they responded to inquiries. 

 

Now, they are being accused of censorship, virtue signaling and 'big tech book burning' by angry internet users who are demanding to know why they can't sell items that they own, just because Silicon Valley no longer thinks they are appropriate. 

 

 

Books including Hitler’s Mein Kampf (top right) and works by Louis Farrakhan (bottom right) - whose anti-Semitic remarks are well known - are still available. 

 

Dr Seuss Enterprises announced two days ago that it would no longer reprint six books which contained racist imagery. The books are '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'. 

 

It came after a school district removed them from its curriculum. 

 

President Joe Biden then snubbed Dr Seuss in his remarks about Read Across America Day, in a certified sign that they'd been 'canceled'. 

 

People then started buying up the suddenly limited-edition books on Amazon and other sites. Some then posted them on eBay for exorbitant prices to turn a profit and cash in on the row.  

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