The study surveyed 1,098 adults about their thoughts on a range of high-profile actions corporations have taken recently to appease left-wing activists, including Hasbro dropping the “Mr.” from its Mr. Potato Head toy, Disney closing down popular rides at its theme parks that activists claimed were “racist,” and Lucasfilm’s firing of actress Gina Carano. On Thursday, eBay began banning the sales of Dr. Seuss books.
The Cat in the Hat, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Green Eggs and Ham, and Fox in Socks currently rank as the top-five best-sellers on Amazon.
How to interpret this other than the culture flashing a middle finger to cancel culture?
“This is how Trump gets reelected, by the way” Kimmel told his audience. “Cancel Dr. Seuss, cancel Abe Lincoln, melt down Mr. Potato Head’s private parts and throw them at the Muppets. That is his path to victory the next time around.”
Loving classic films can be a fraught pastime. Just consider the cultural firestorm over “Gone With the Wind” this past summer.
No one knows this better than the film lovers at Turner Classic Movies who daily are confronted with the complicated reality that many of old Hollywood’s most celebrated films are also often a kitchen sink of stereotypes. This summer, amid the Black Lives Matter protests, the channel’s programmers and hosts decided to do something about it.
The result is a new series, “Reframed Classics,” which promises wide-ranging discussions about 18 culturally significant films from the 1920s through the 1960s that also have problematic aspects, from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and Mickey Rooney’s performance as Mr. Yunioshi to Fred Astaire’s blackface routine in “Swing Time.” It kicks off Thursday at 8 p.m. ET with none other than “Gone With the Wind.”
h/t Marvin
The left has a habit that it practices when it runs up against undeniable hypocrisy and it’s doing so now with cancel culture. It’s a tactic that first requires the denial of a thing existing, and then redefining the word to better fit their needs.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson launched a tirade Tuesday against attempts to cancel the late children’s book author Dr. Seuss. Carlson argued that, despite claims to the contrary, Seuss was as far from “racist” as one could possibly be.
Every 2 March is Read Across America Day, a day to encourage children to read. It is also known as National Dr Seuss Day, as it is celebrated on the birthday of the beloved author. Dr Seuss’s classic books, such as The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham, have instilled the joy of reading in generations of children. And for decades, US presidents have made Dr Seuss central to the day’s festivities.
When it comes to who can play what in movies and on TV, producers have been quick to apply a double standard.
It is deemed progressive and interesting for black and brown actors to play white characters but inappropriate and offensive the other way round. Colorblind casting only applies to people of color, which somewhat defies the point.
Sales of Dr. Seuss children’s books continue booming a day after the left tried to “cancel” the author’s works on his birthday.
Dr. Seuss’s books were among the leading 42 titles on the top 50 list of Amazon’s “movers and shakers” on Wednesday morning after the ban was announced.
Journalist and podcaster Angelo Isidorou was targeted by the cancel mob over a four year-old photo of him wearing a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat and flashing an “OK” sign. Isidorou sat down with True North’s Andrew Lawton to talk about how he’s pushing back against the mob both legally and culturally.
Over the past month, Lehigh University has taken actions to downgrade a video it had originally posted in late January by one of its professors on poverty and race after students on social media denounced the video as supporting racist thought.
Lehigh’s College of Business had asked Frank Gunter, professor of economics at Lehigh, to create a brief video from his recent op-ed “Three Myths About Poverty.” They posted his video on Jan. 28 as part of a series of videos directed at advising the new Biden administration on policy issues.
So what makes Sucka so gloriously inappropriate and problematic?
In the same way Mel Brooks satirized his own Jewish culture and Lear satirized the working class — and both did so by mixing love with criticism — Wayans satirizes urban black culture, which is something you just aren’t allowed to do today.
If Sucka were released today, Wayans would be blacklisted by the Woke Nazis as a sellout who “makes it safe for white racists to laugh at black stereotypes,” a criticism that defanged Chris Rock permanently and Dave Chappelle for at least a decade.
Great movie.
Mount Allison University’s decision to launch an internal review following complaints about the personal blog of one of its professors is an “egregious” violation of academic freedom, a group dedicated to the protection of free speech and scholarship says.
How will Emmanuel Macron mark the general’s difficult bicentenary?
Paris may have avenues, boulevards, bridges and a railway station named after their most famous military leader’s armies, battles and treaties. But nowhere will you find an Avenue or Place or Boulevard named after Napoleon Bonaparte himself — apart from a narrow Rue Bonaparte on the Left Bank.
In 21st century France, Bonaparte is everywhere. And nowhere.
The cancel culture we are living in should itself be canceled. That must be obvious to most people, given the way in which it stifles the free expression of ideas, but I think there’s more happening than that. Cancel culture is the culmination of the cyberbullying, spiritually (and, sometimes, literally) homicidal social media experiment we’ve been running on the entire human race since the advent of venues like Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat.
