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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by boomboomsubban on Friday March 05, 2021 @11:37AM (#26358795)
> I don’t see him putting people in there as one dimensional characters.

How are you just ignoring his WWII career as a propaganda artist? I linked you one of the tamer examples, but he was creating cartoons depicting both Japanese and Germans as the evil enemy.

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by mc32 on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:25PM (#26360950)
Both the Germans and Japanese were categorically bad enemies we had the absolute right and duty to fight at all costs.
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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by boomboomsubban on Friday March 05, 2021 @08:16PM (#26364336)
Ignoring whether that's true, this doesn't make the propaganda not racist.
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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by skyde on Friday March 05, 2021 @12:58PM (#26359790)
we are talking about the book that just got banned for no reason not his other obviously racist work.
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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by boomboomsubban on Friday March 05, 2021 @01:12PM (#26359943)
Right, obviously we should ignore his clearly racist work when judging whether his other work employs harmful racist stereotypes.
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