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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by neartheplain on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:22PM (#26351719)
There’s a difference between schools named after the Confederacy and schools named after Abraham Lincoln.

The fact that this bears mentioning points to the general historical ignorance affecting many of these misguided activists, such as those who tore down the statue of Hans Christian Heg in Madison, WI. Heg was a Union soldier and abolitionist who led an anti-slavecatcher militia. He was also a white man, which is presumably why his statue got dragged through the street and beheaded during the height of last summer’s protest violence:

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/06/24/madison-prote...

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by cable2600 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:44PM (#26352819)
Even the Lincoln statues got pulled down. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/portland-protesters-tea...
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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by UncleMeat on Friday March 05, 2021 @08:38AM (#26356713)
> There’s a difference between schools named after the Confederacy and schools named after Abraham Lincoln.

Given the number of people who make precisely the same complaints that appear in this thread when high schools change their name from "Lee", that difference seems to be lost to many "free speech absolutists".

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