The company is now messaging users saying that their listings have been removed because it didn't follow the "Offensive Material Policy."
Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced this week that they are discontinuing six of the author's books that crazy liberal activists have been complaining about, including If I Ran the Zoo and And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.
"Listings that promote or glorify hatred, violence, or discrimination aren't allowed," the message said.
Under a heading about "what activity didn't follow the policy," eBay explained that "Dr. Seuss Enterprises has stopped publication of this book due to negative portrayal of some ethnicities."
"As a courtesy, we have ended your item and refunded your selling fees, and as long as you do not relist the item, there will be no negative impact to your account," the message continued.
If outdated political ideas are now banned, the list of books eBay refuses to list will be miles long.
The attack on Seuss heated up last week when a Virginia school district banned reading Dr. Seuss during Read Across America Day — a day celebrating the children's author's work.
The uproar was caused by a far-left group called Learning for Justice — an Southern Poverty Law Center affiliate.
The group cited a study from St. Catherine University that claims Dr. Seuss's children's books are rife with "orientalism, anti-blackness, and white supremacy."
"Of the 2,240 (identified) human characters, there are 45 of color representing two percent of the total number of human characters," the study reads. Of the 45 characters of color, 43 "exhibited behaviors and appearances that align with harmful and stereotypical Orientalist tropes."
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R.C.
Just seen this - [Link] - a review of the 37th book, Asterix and the Chariot Race from 2017
Scroll down to the image of the two Kush females and there's that word "Coronavirus"
One of the best places to learn that truth is from learning about the C's. Totally cool stuff. I know that there are others here, but in particular, I'd recommend that the next time you read a comment by Good Optics that you ask G.O. about it.
I've meant to bookmark that website, and thanks to your request, I just did! [Link] *
LKJ is my Florida Heroine. She has been so unfairly sullied that it breaks my heart. (And there are likely few of the earliest SOTTites (those with registration #'s in triple digits or less - just double click an name and the registration # appears in address) who haven't suffered in and from that fact also.) The PTB's toadies and lackeys really went hard on that but I like to think that they just instead proved the Streisand Effect.
One part of those slanders (which caused me ~2004? to literally seek out who it was that some power did not like so obviously so damn much - it turned out to be LKJ) relates to the issue of the C's [Link] and its at least superficial rational implausibility. LKJ & SOTT's facts and results speak truth as far as I can see. Again, ask G.O. (and lots of others with the low registration #'s) for more details and, more specifically, where to start.
*A critical point: IF one posts a link to a SOTT article, it will automatically provide all sorts of extra details, such as, I'm going to link this article:
The virtual book burning continues: eBay bans listings of 'offensive' Dr. Seuss books
Online action site eBay has banned users from selling copies of the Dr. Seuss books that the left found "problematic." The company is now messaging users saying that their listings have been...Note, however, that the above link to the C's does not do that. IF SOTT and the C's were all part of some big scam (as they are uniformly and maliciously scuffed as by PTB toadies and lackeys), well, you could rest assured that a link to the C's would do the same, larger display. It doesn't! It just does the standard autohyperlink. I rest that case.
Good luck and enjoy. I know you will.
RC
Now I'd bet that has been said before, but if so, I don't believe I've read it.
RC