Dershowitz: Why Stop With Dr. Seuss?

The brouhaha over some of Dr. Seuss’ early children’s books has raised an important distinction within the censorial world of cancel culture: when the author of multiple books, like Dr. Seuss, has written a handful of pages that do not pass muster with cancel culture critics, should they merely cancel the offending pages? Or should they cancel the person, along with his entire genre, including non-offending items?

In the case of Dr. Seuss, his own estate has withdrawn several of the offending books, but continues to give permission to publish the others. Some zealots however, have suggested cancelling Dr. Seuss himself and removing all of his books and writings from libraries, school curricula and social media. President Biden cancelled the traditional reference to Dr. Seuss in his statement regarding Read Across America Day, which is also Dr. Seuss’s birthday.

If cancel culture were to accept the notion that a person should be totally cancelled based on only a portion of his output, we would have to comb the libraries, book stores and eBook sites for offenders. Near the top of the list would be Fyodor Dostoevsky, perhaps the greatest writer of modern times. In addition to his monumental novels such as “The Brothers Karamazov” and “Crime and Punishment,” he wrote an essay that could easily have been mistaken for a chapter straight out of “Mein Kampf” by Adolph Hitler. In his essay on “The Jewish Question,” he rails against the Jewish faith, culture, and people. He claims that Jews hoard gold so that they can easily carry it with them to the promised land. He accuses them of duel loyalty, deception and other sins.

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{Matzav.com}