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Book Removals Are "Nazi Censorship" — But Cancelling Dr. Seuss Was Progress
The Progressive Left · DemocratThey said
“Removing books with explicit sexual content from school libraries is fascist, Nazi-style censorship and book banning.”
January 1, 2023 · Illustrative example · source not captured
Yet they did
“Six Dr. Seuss books should be pulled from publication for offensive imagery — and celebrating that they will no longer be printed.”
March 2, 2021 · Illustrative example · source not captured
The contradiction
The same voices that branded the removal of sexually explicit material from school libraries as fascist book-banning had, two years earlier, cheered the discontinuation of six Dr. Seuss titles over offensive imagery. Either pulling books is censorship or it is not — the principle cannot depend on which books and whose politics.