Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
by DrSiemer on Friday March 05, 2021 @08:57AM
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Erasing the past is not the main concern here. We all know history is written by the victors.
What worries me is the voluntary whitewashing and consequent suppression of alternative media by companies whose judgement is solely based on PR.
A publisher choosing not to reprint works that contain questionable content is completely understandable and well within their right. Nobody is arguing they have to print these books. But when the biggest open marketplaces begin to decide what is allowed for resale, that is something else entirely.
It's a slippery slope to let public outcry determine what is easily available and what is not.
Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
by UncleMeat on Friday March 05, 2021 @09:35AM
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> Erasing the past is not the main concern here.
Then why was that the entire content of your post?
> We all know history is written by the victors.
It isn't. All of the history professors I know cringe at this phrase.
After Charlottesville, the AHA put out a statement making it clear that removing confederate statues from public view was absolutely not “erasing history”. Nobody listened to them. People just kept going on about the left erasing the past. This made it clear that this was just a culture war rather than honest concern.
If you are worried about erasing the past, get the opinion of some historians.