Okay, which joyless imbecile or group has banned Dr Seuss???
In this sick, oh so sensitive world we live in, this cancerous cult is shutting far more mouths than any Covid mask ever can. I was always taught that even if you don’t like something you see, read or hear, you certainly had the right to speak your mind about it – but you DID NOT have the God given right from forcibly preventing anyone else from expressing and exercising their own rights on those matters. And anyway, who or what expressly states or endorses that YOU are the great supreme authority on what is right and wrong anyway?
There is a very sad and sorry clique out there that is determined to make what is wrong right and what is right wrong. Incredible isn’t it? They shut down the writings of a man who for decades strove to help children of all backgrounds, whose writings have delighted and inspired millions. Like so many others, I found my first true awareness of environmental issues through that timeless classic ‘The Lorax’ and the rapacious Oncelers, I learned about the futility of war via ‘The Butter Battle Book’ and laughed at the Cat in the Hat and Things One and Two. And now, because of a few simple illustrations that were innocent and certainly not to be taken too seriously, this great educator and writer is now to be all but persona non grata.
And yet the amount of profanity, blasphemy, immorality and down right porn on our TVs via increasingly sick reality shows continues to spiral upwards virtually unchecked. As many despots have known down throughout the ages, in order to conquer a society you attack them at the grass roots. First you entice them with with a bag of candy (promises, sweet sounding ideology etc) and then you totally corrupt them until they are so compliant, so dissolute and so unquestioning you can do whatever you like to them. So to all those who embrace PC, please stop and consider who and what is driving all this, and what they stand to gain by turning you into mindless robots.
This is happening right now, right in your workplace, living room and on your devices.
Let us consider the origins of political correctness, as they are far from innocent. According to academics, you can blame the early communist ideologies of the nineteenth century, who decided that in order to achieve their New World Order all traces of the old world had to be done away with via ‘critical theory’. This was embraced avidly by the murderous despots of the twentieth century such as Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Pol Pot, who under the guise of ‘social cleansing’ all but completely exterminated anyone with any smidgeon of decent education and slaughtered countless millions for ‘incorrect’ and ‘improper thinking’.
Okay, so Dr Seuss portayed some racial stereotypes. These are pretty fleeting in the wider context of his books, and the far left does not care to mention that there are many other stereotypes, such as Russians and Eskimos etc, but they choose to focus almost exclusively on Asian and Blacks. Ohhhh, shock, horror! How TERRIBLE! Er, excuse me. Stereotypes do have their origins in some degree of historical fact, that is how you get a stereotype after all. We often see cartoons of big, mean Vikings with horned helmets (in reality this was not the case) and English businessmen in snobby tweed suits and derby hats (to name just a couple of examples) but the PC brigade does not mention this as to them anything and everything white is BAD and deserves everything rotten they can say or hurl at them. Most children when seeing these cartoons will laugh and brush them aside as just cartoons and silly images (my generation mostly did), but then some dark minded insecure adults start telling them what and how to think about such things, upsetting them terribly and making a mountain out of a molehill. I was equally appalled when I heard that the once acclaimed Little House on the Prairie books were being banned as some groups viewed them as being “expressions of stereotypical attitudes inconsistent with core values.” Laura Ingalls Wilder could only write about what she saw and experienced in her own time, over one hundred and fifty years ago. We can hardly condemn her for the state of the world back then, which was already changing very rapidly. Besides, in order to go forwards, we have to often look backwards to learn from past mistakes in order not to repeat them in the future.
We cannot rewrite or ignore history. Over the twentieth century many have tried, with often hideous and disastrous results. To do so leads to massive ignorance, oppression, lack of understanding and perspective and unprecedented inhumanity. When books are banned and burned, when people are told what to think, when mouths are silenced and any critics are forced into exile, imprisoned or murdered (look at the Nazis with their brave new Reich and China’s ‘little red book’ which was touted as divine gospel, ignoring centuries of invaluable Chinese culture and wisdom) you head for complete disaster. Or in more recent times Pol Pot’s insane Year Zero project in Cambodia, eliminating all hints of education and thought and reducing everyone into grovelling, abject obedience and blind ignorance.
I reiterate to the lefties out there; who ultimately stands to gain from this state of affairs? What kind of society do you really want? People come in all skin tones and with all manner of opinions, right and wrong. Just because one is black or brown does not make them any more right or justified to use heavy handed censorship to achieve their aims than someone who is Asian or white, and vice versa. Please think this over very hard.
Instead of banning books, look on them as a creative exercise. Draw comparisons between books of all genres and perspectives, and let children make up their own minds and reach sensible conclusions without interference. Let them see the world for the diverse, wondrous, colourful and often error-ridden place that it is without the sanitised approach. Please, give them the right to exercise their God given intellect, and to develop common sense and an appreciation of common decency. Regardless of what you may think, most children do have it.
Unlike it seems, many adults!
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