As a Conservative, I was an ardent defender of the freedom of speech.
Now that I am a Pinochetist, I can roll that back a little bit and not feel like a hypocrite.
I still, for the most part, believe in the principle of freedom of speech, but I have no moral compunction against jailing lying, propagandizing Leftists who their positions of authority to spread lies.
Like this teacher:
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1434312109538557952
I have written about my favorite Dr. Seuss book before, Dr. Seuss Goes to War.
I’ve posted these cartoons before, but I’m going to post them again.
He was anti-segregation, anti-anti-Semitism, and a definite promoter of equality.
That is the entire plot of his story, The Sneeches. It’s about overcoming prejudice and bigotry.
Yes, some of his older books contained characters that employees unflattering stereotypes. Some people who make claims about his racism point to his war cartoons about the Japanese, which he drew while we were at war with them.
But his racist drawings pale in comparison to the repeated message of equality that permeates his war cartoon and children’s stories.
What this teacher says about Dr. Seuss is proveably and verifiably false.
She is deliberately lying to her students to posthumously slander a much-beloved children’s author.
She is using her position of authority, as a teacher, to fill their heads with lies and garbage.
There should be only one recourse for this. Life in prison.
What this teacher says about Dr. Seuss is proveably and verifiably false.
She is deliberately lying to her students to posthumously slander a much-beloved children’s author.
And Theodor Suess Geisel (Dr. Suess) is unavailable to comment or explain and defend his work.
I have no doubt if he was, he’d metaphorically and rhetorically rip her to shreds.
Which is exactly why they had to wait until after he passed to start their attacks. The “objectionable” books aren’t new — like all his stuff, they’ve been around for decades — but only now, after he died, we need to “cancel” them?
The timing is highly suspect.
They don’t object to his “offensive” works — they object to his explicitly non-racist, anti-racism material.
“There should be only one recourse for this. Life in prison.”
Only one?
Interesting, especially from a self-professed Pinochetist.