I especially loved the GOP clutching copies of Green Eggs and Ham when it was about two ENTIRELY DIFFERENT books- ones that are generally not very popular or acclaimed anyway.
This incident skyrocketed the eBay value of Dr Seuss books, which led to them all being stolen from my library, which means we had (and have) no Dr Seuss books.
I worked as a children's librarian at a public library at this time. We were accused of canceling Dr. Seuss. I had to show people how to search our catalog and point out "we have no Dr. Seuss books on the shelves because THEY'RE ALL CHECKED OUT. It's the first week of March, what do you expect??"
That the product line was renamed from Mr. Potato Head to Potato Head (which Mr. Potato Head and Ms. Potato Head were separate toys under that brand name) was an affront to Americans and Smacked of Gender.
Michael come on— it was also an issue of an independent publisher along with the wishes of the estate deciding to no longer publish Dr. Seuss books nobody even gave a shit about that was a threat to freedom of speech.
i firmly believe the tendency for conservative projection was a specific strategy to normalise people talking about topics like "banning books", "biased judges" etc so that all of this stuff seems like give-and-take with the Dems since most people are just half-remembering 5-year-old news stories
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“DR suess is cancelled. They won’t let you buy them”
“Can you buy them now.”
“Yes”
“Can you get them from the library”
“Yes”
“So…”
People get mad, but whatever
(We don't have to host your shitty storytime if we don't want to, go eat rocks.)