by Mike Nichols, Publisher | February 27, 2021 | 10:59 CT
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There is a movement on the Marxist-Fascist Left to ban literally hundreds of children's books that allegedly have racial "undertones" and ethnic stereotypes. Closer investigation shows their motives are likely far more sinister. (Photo Illustration: ACV Reports)
One would think the last author in the annals of American literature to be considered controversial is Theodor Seuss "Ted" Geisel, well-known worldwide under the pen name "Dr. Seuss." Yet his 60 books, which he illustrated himself, are in the crosshairs of the Marxist-Fascist Left.
For 23 years, schools across the country have recognized Geisel's contributions to student literacy by holding Read Across America Day on the author's birthday, March 2. Loudon County (Va.) School District, under pressure from outside activists, has decided this week to cancel the event in county schools this year. A radical advocacy group, Learning for Justice, convinced school board members that Geisel's work carried "racial overtones" and "ethnic stereotypes" that "are detrimental to inclusiveness and diversity."
That characterization is absurd. More over, I am convinced this shadowy organization is well aware of that. So why attack Dr. Seuss, if he is not, in fact, racist?
Dr. Seuss' books are far more dangerous than ignorant, bigoted racism — what of it still exists, which is minuscule — could ever be. Dr. Seuss teaches children of their rights, privileges, freedoms and liberties in this country. He teaches them they are individuals with no limits when they accept the responsibilities and expectations of a free society.
Those ideas are counterintuitive to the Marxist-Fascist mindset. Those ideas are anti-collectivist and proudly pro-democracy. They must be silenced.
Take, for example, the Seuss classic, "Horton Hears a Who." The lovable elephant faces insult, derision and outright hatred for insisting a dandelion-like plant has an entire planet with an unseen population inhabiting a speck of dust on it and that society, which only he can hear, must be saved. No one believes him, everyone calls him names and threatens violence against the elephant and the invisible little people on a dust mote.
In "Horton Hears a Who," the elephant defends those who are defenseless and pays the price for standing up for what is right. ((Illustration: Theodor Geisel/Used by permission}
There are so many lessons in the telling of that story it is difficult to list them all, but the primary idea is that no one is unimportant, no one should be sacrificed because some believe their concept of a "greater good" must be adopted by everyone. Sound familiar? Geisel, who was Jewish, undoubtedly had the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler in mind when he wrote the book, but it is fitting to remind us of the story today in the face of looming tyranny in our own beloved country.
Another book — actually the first to feature the character — "Horton Hatches the Egg," is similar in its theme. The book centers on Horton, the genial elephant, who is convinced by Mayzie, a lazy, irresponsible bird, to sit on her egg while she takes a short "break", which turns into her permanent relocation to Palm Beach. Horton survives more derision, treacherous weather, being trapped by poachers and sold to a circus, yet never once thinking of getting off the egg: ""I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred per cent!"
Could there be any greater indictment of the welfare state our lower class has become? Of of the concept that our word is our bond and cannot be revoked?
What about the silly stories, such as "Cat in the Hat" and "Green Eggs and Ham"? Surely there is no point to them, other than being silly?
In reality, "Cat in the Hat" is a warning against radical revolutionaries. The Cat was inspired by Alexander Kernesky, the caretaker head of the Russian government appointed by Czar Nicholas II when he abdicated the monarchy and turned the government over to socialists. Kernesky had no clue about government, only that he was fed up with the rules of the czarist regime. He made a perfect model for Geisel's character, The Cat.
There is great irony in the story. The doomsday-preaching fish keeps warning of the perils of the direction the household is going under The Cat. Thing 1 and Thing 2 are the mindless followers of The Cat, having no judgment of what is right and wrong, just "what The Cat says, we do." Like today's Marxist-Fascist followers of the current U.S. regime, they have no reason of their own, but only blindly follow their leader.
The book may today be more appropriate than it has ever been. Thus we have nameless, faceless "organizations" trying to silence ever the most seemingly innocuous voices in our schools and our society.
Bringing us to the significance of "Green Eggs and Ham." This book raises the question of the role that experience plays in the formation of our beliefs. This topic is discussed in the area of philosophy, known as the theory of knowledge or epistemology. Although the book raises the issue in regard to beliefs about food, the ideas can be applied to beliefs about anything.
In "Green Eggs and Ham," Dr. Seuss illustrates how some things can be rejected out of hand, but personal experience is otherwise the best way to judge. (Illustration: Theodor Geisel/Used by permission)
There are two main positions that philosophers may take in this discussion. The first is that experience is necessary in establishing our judgments. The second is claiming that sometimes experience may not be necessary to determine what we think, for we can rely on reason alone.
For example, we can taste something and decide that we don’t like a particular food. However, in other cases, we can simply read about something, like getting into a car crash, for example, and come to the conclusion that we do not want to ever be in a car crash. In this case, we did not need to experience the crash to conclude we don't wish to experience it.
We have numerous examples of how devastating communism and Nazism — two sides of the same coin, regardless of the lies Leftists want to tell — are to a nation. We don't have to experience totalitarianism to understand it is not something we want to institute in this country. Yet we have a political party determined to bring it about, to destroy our Constitution and to overthrow the concept of a democratic republic as envisaged by our Founders and Framers.
That is precisely why the radical, anti-American Left wants Dr. Seuss eradicated from the schools. The books are a direct attack on their ideology and will plant "dangerous" ideas in the children's heads: Ideas like individuality, rebellion against overreaching authority and repudiation of big government.
Learning for Justice was founded under the name "Tolerance in Education" in 1991. The parent organization of the non-profit is the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that is considered by many to be a scam designed to enrich its board and has actually put people in danger. Their radical agenda is well established, and the name change, made in 2017, was deliberately done to deflect previously accumulated antipathy toward the group.
Learning for Justice cited a study published in a magazine article by St. Catherine University it released during its presentation to Loudon County Schools, that claimed Dr. Seuss’s books are covered with "orientalism [the new boogeyman of the Left], anti-Blackness and White supremacy"
The group also claimed that the characters who were not White in the books were "subservient" to White characters.
"The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins" is perhaps the most dangerous Seuss book to the unhinged Left. (Illustration: Theodor Geisel/Used by permission)
This isn’t the first time that Dr. Seuss has been targeted for cancellation recently.
Former first lady Melania Trump fired back at a Massachusetts elementary school librarian in 2017 who claimed the illustrations in Dr. Seuss’s books were examples of "racist propaganda."
Obscure groups such as Learning for Justice are helping to build a foundation for a successful Marxist-Fascist takeover of the U.S. government. They have rigged an election in order to get a malleable known-nothing in the Oval Office who will do whatever they tell him to do. They issue proclamations of this, that and the other thing as being "racist," "white supremacist" and "fascist" — the irony being they are calling others what they are themselves. It is the same game plan run by Hitler starting in 1933.
Geisel was a sworn enemy of communism and Nazism. His advocacy for the little guy being no different and every bit as powerful as the "ruling elite," as they like to think of themselves, was far ahead of its time.
Perhaps the greatest example of his worldview is found in his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins," written in 1938 at the height of the Nazi regime. Bartholomew comes to King Derwin's attention when he "refuses" to remove his hat and kneel as the king's procession rolls by. It isn't that the young man won't remove his hat. In fact, he tries multiple times, but a new hat just appears on his head every time.
The king summons him to the castle to account for his "disobedience." As Bartholomew ascends the steps to the castle, his hats become increasing ornate, rivaling Derwin's own crown, which of course enrages the king. How dare Bartholomew don something more lavish than the ruler of the kingdom wears?
"500 hats" repudiates the power and authority of a government that demands obedience without showing compassion, that seeks obsequity without giving respect, claims ordination without qualification. It reveals the foolishness of unearned power, prestige and privilege — the same temptations Satan tempted Jesus with in the desert — being wielded by those who have simply appointed it to themselves or inherited it from others without having the merit to do so.
It was inevitable Dr. Seuss would be besieged by the Marxist-Fascist Left. Theodor Geisel hated them and did everything in his power to educate the youth of his day and of every day afterward against falling into their trap.
To them, he is dangerous and must be silenced.
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