Reference :- That might be because the "woke left " didn't try to ban them in the first place .
Gosh Peta , who does your research ? They need to sharpen their act . After all it is you , not them , that looks like a complete idiot if you run a story that is ......ahem ..... not strictly factual . Even worse , lately in Australia you run the risk of being forcibly dragged away in a black car by the anti- terrorist cops if you say something in public to discredit a party you dislike. Although Ken junior just reminded me that it's OK to discredit the "woke left" , it's only discrediting conservatives that gets you arrested .
Nonetheless , it pays to be cautious , so here are the actual facts .
1. Nobody banned a single book by Dr Suess .
2. All of his 60 or so different titles were left on the bookshelves at schools .
3. One secondary school in the whole of the USA decided to " de- emphasize " 6 Suess books on the annual " Read Across America Day " .
4 . The school that decided to " de-emphasize " the 6 books left those books in their library and had the children write essays about Dr Suess , since " Read Across America Day " is celebrated on Dr Suess's birthday .
5. The company that produces Dr Suess books had decided by itself to stop printing 6 of the more obscure books only , partly because societal views have changed and partly for commercial reasons . (They didn't sell many. ) The remaining books (90 % of them ) remain hugely popular and the printing of Suess books continues .
You know Peta , this reminds of the time our local newspaper , The Kooralya Chronicle , ran a misleading story . The headline ran thus .
" Youth has all his motorbikes confiscated by police " .
In fact , our workmate young Monte , had been pulled over for riding one of his motorbikes sans exhaust muffler . The police took it off the road , but gave it back to him and it remains part of his collection of ten classic trail bikes .
At the time , I spoke with the editor about his misleading story , and started to tell him the facts . He just laughed and said he knew it was rubbish , but it made a good headline . Plus he said he was out to discredit the local cops because he didn't like the way they enforced closing hours at the pub .
Anyway Peta , not much harm done with this one I guess . I don't think there is a great need to air a correction as you have done in the past , especially since you haven't received a court order on this occasion .
Stay on the ball though .
Your comrade , Ken .
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