Dr. Seuss

Thousands of children’s books, such as Dr Seuss, have been slapped with trigger warnings by Cambridge University for alleged racism.

As the Seuss Saga plays itself out, we are seeing that while the left can win the first battle, the right can win the war. 

Comedian and actor Gabriel Iglesias, who voices the popular Looney Tunes character Speedy Gonzales in the upcoming “Space Jam” sequel, mocked cancel culture following calls to “cancel” the famed Mexican mouse.

Cindy McCain, the spouse of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), said Monday on MSNBC’s “Live” that the Republican Party has to stop pushing “fear and anger and hate.”

Books by Dr. Seuss have soared to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list after it was announced that six of the author’s publications were “canceled” by the left for being “racist.” The Cat in the Hat is currently topping the Amazon list.

“Dr. Seuss is a legend! We love ‘Hop on Pop.’ Uncle Joe’s lost his mind; ‘cancel culture’ must stop.”

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said that “there is no place for racist imagery” when asked to respond to the ongoing controversy about Dr. Seuss, whom the city has honored in the past.

EBay is reportedly removing the six Dr. Seuss books that the author’s estate has stopped publishing, saying that it is working on removing the titles from its online auctions and other listings.

British prime minister Boris Johnson has posted a picture of himself posing with a copy of a Dr Seuss story for World Book Day, amid an ongoing culture war battle over whether the late children’s author should be “cancelled”. 

The banning of six books by Dr. Seuss over concerns that they contain racist imagery has turned the popular children’s author into kryptonite for the left. But as recently as just a few months ago, many cultural elites unequivocally embraced Dr. Seuss, even lending their star power to promote his books.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson narrated a Dr. Seuss audiobook before the claims that some of his books contain racist images.

The simple act of embracing cancel culture could propel President Donald Trump to re-election in 2024, ABC’s left-wing late-night host Jimmy Kimmel warned Tuesday night.

Officials at Universal Orlando are “evaluating the in-park experiences” in its Dr. Seuss area after claims the author used racist images.

Former president and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama hosted several events while in the White House that focused on Dr. Seuss and his iconic children’s books, six of which have been pulled from product because of alleged racist content.

In 1998, the National Education Association (NEA) — the country’s largest teachers union — linked arms with Dr. Seuss to promote “Read Across America Day.”

In 2013, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) used Dr. Seuss’s “Green Eggs and Ham” to argue for the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.

Dr. Seuss appears to be the latest target caught in the cancel culture crosshairs, with Dr. Seuss Enterprises announcing that it would discontinue the publication of six popular Dr. Seuss books and Joe Biden breaking presidential precedent this week by omitting Dr. Seuss in his presidential proclamation for “Read Across America Day.” But it was just a few years ago that scores of Hollywood celebrities celebrated the famed author’s birthday.

The censors of the left need to be held to the same standard that they use to judge, and to cancel, others — so they can see how absurd censorship is.

The old Harris post on Twitter was revisited after Vice President Joe Biden issued a statement on National Reading Day, but did not mention Dr. Seuss, who was enthusiastically celebrated on that day by previous presidents.

On Monday, President Joe Biden snubbed beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss in his presidential proclamation for “Read Across America Day.” On Tuesday, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced that it would discontinue the publication of six popular Dr. Seuss books. But from Jim Carrey’s turn as the Grinch in 2000’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas to Benedict Cumberbatch’s 2018 animated role as the grumpy green recluse, films based off of Theodor Seuss Geisel’s classic tomes have netted hundreds of millions of dollars in profits for Hollywood studios over the years. 

Dr. Seuss’s books were among the leading 42 titles on the top 50 list of Amazon’s “movers and shakers” on Wednesday morning after the ban was announced.

During the Tuesday broadcast of his Fox News Channel program, Tucker Carlson addressed the controversy surrounding Dr. Seuss’ children’s books, which have been deemed “racist” but some on the American left.

President Biden dropped Dr. Seuss from Read Across America Day, failing to mention the famed children’s author in his presidential proclamation  — a decision that coincided with six of the beloved author’s books being pulled from publication for “racist and insensitive” depictions.

Six popular Dr. Seuss books — including And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo — “will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday,” The Associated Press reported.

A Virginia school system has removed children’s books by Dr. Seuss from its annual Read Across America program over charges of “racism.”

A new study from a peer-reviewed academic journal says that classic children’s books written by Dr. Seuss are racist.