It’s not quite the same. The cat only politely demanded evidence that the book isn’t racist one time. She needs to do it at least three times while complaining that her question isn’t being answered.
“I have to be honest: I really don’t understand white people. They’re confusing! I mean, white people are in charge of everything in America, they dominate government, business, finance, tech, real estate—every industry that matters—and yet guess who feels like they’re discriminated against?”
…"“They believe in reverse racism,” Cox said. “That’s what they’re talking about. Not that racism against black people is over and now we’re racist against whites, but yeah Black people have some problems, but also I do, too, or my race does, too.” Some said many white people have come to see race as a sort of card—or a cudgel—that only some people get to use and they resent that. And they are rejecting that."
“Charlie Sykes said, “Others can play the race card, play the gender card. So they’re like, I want a card. I want to be part of this as well. I want to be a protected class as well.” Sykes knows there’s power in feeling like a victim.”
In case you hadn’t heard, Dr. Seuss’s publisher will no longer print six of his books because he was a racist. No more “On Beyond Zebra” and you’d better burn all your copies of “If I Ran the Zoo”!
The others are “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” “McElligot’s Pool,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!” and “The Cat’s Quizzer.”
Buy your copies before they run out, 'cause there’ll never be any more.
I don’t think those have been read much these days except for “If I Ran the Zoo”, maybe I’m wrong. I would look at the content in question, there are some issues with his work. If it was “because he was a racist” I presume they would stop printing all of his material.
If I remember correctly, some of his early work was really, really racist. I don’t know the texts to which you are referring, but not all the criticism sent his way is unwarranted.
Having said that, I’m not a big fan of near-monopolies refusing to sell books. In this case, I’m not sure that it is a big deal. But if one can’t find the books at all, I might have a different view.
The list used internally at Pontins and obtained by the i newspaper included surnames commonly found in Ireland and within the Irish diaspora in Britain, such as Doherty, Gallagher, Murphy, Nolan, O’Brien and O’Connell.