May be the world polarising into two kind of extreme polarisization: one with a sense of humor and one without it. And it has a noticeable effect on the face. I'd love to see few samples of faces from each class.
In all seriousness, I haven’t followed closely, so I don’t know who hates Dr. Seuss lately, they are the baddies.
That initial idea somehow turns into, "The left hates Dr. Seuss" and wild slippery slopes about book burning.
https://sophia.stkate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&c...
Recently the publisher announced it was going to stop selling those - I think it was 6 books out of 107 in the catalog. There was no pressure campaign or wave of outrage driving it.
Perhaps you should choose better news sources, as the ones you are using seem to be serving you poorly.
The outrage over racial overtones came from a left aligned organization. Fact.
It was carried on and cheered on by left leaning people. Fact.
People on the right don’t use words like “problematic” and “racialized undertones”
That’s on you guys.
This is from The horses mouth:
“ Six popular Dr. Seuss books — including And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo — “will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday,” The Associated Press reported.
“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement marking the late author and illustrator’s birthday.”
^ The above is just stupid.
However, I just shared a bunch of open source facts with you. All sourced from left leaning sources as to be somewhat unbiased (even though my bias on this subject is probably pretty heavy)
This isn’t about winning an online argument, it’s about a call for reason when things have become so silly that we are a step away from the Grinch being canceled because his big nose looks Jewish and that’s Nazism or something.
Not one single neo Nazi has ever been uplifted and supported in their beliefs by classic children’s books.
So it would be interesting to see if hyperpartisans could be separated from moderates by their appearance (just to be clear, I dont believe in phrenology, I imagine its information leaking from other aspects of presentation and background).
With respect to humour, the modern lack of humor seems to focus on not offending people, which I admit I dont understand but I could guess is predicated on the feeling that laughter is somehow equated to divisive mocking, as opposed to fun. I bring this up only because it reminds me a lot of Umberto Eco's "The Name of The Rose" where the 13th century religious leaders were arguing that laughter was inappropriate, and Jesus never laughed, somehow rooted in the belief that finding humor in things admitted the possibility of laughing at aspects of religion and therefore not taking them seriously.
Anyway, your comment made me think, so thanks.
On the right you have Trump cultists who loyally cling to every word he utters, regardless of it is true or not, spreading lies and misinformation on social media about voter fraud, vaccines, etc. You also have covid denial on the right where "the constitution" is used as a bludgeon to resist any reasonable public health policy like mask usage.
On the left you have the wokeness mobs that go around trying to cancel/censor/destroy every historical figure/book/statue who didn't live a perfect life and destroying careers of anyone who says the wrong word or makes a bad analogy. You also have covid zealotry on the left where "covid deaths prevented" is prioritized above all else and we can't re-open schools, re-open businesses, visit grandparents, or otherwise get back to normal life (even after mass vaccination) until 100% of all remaining unknowns are known (even if it takes another 2 years of masking, zooming, and hermiting).
These are all very recent examples.