Michael F Schundler
1 min readNov 25, 2022

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I live in California where progressives have banned Dr Seuss, To Kill a Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn, and hundreds of other books.

But the ultimate in cancel culture is when they have rewritten classics without permission of the long since dead authors because they find the book "offensive" or they simply stop publishing them even when consumers want them.

"A new edition of Huckleberry Finn is planned that will rewrite Mark Twain’s words. Specifically, two racial epitaphs are being traded for less offensive words." In other instances, the book publishers have been targeted and so will simply not print the books any longer.

The six Dr. Seuss books that will stop being published are And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, If I Ran the Zoo, McElligot's Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, Scrambled Eggs Super!, and The Cat's Quizzer,

I find the "N" word offensive, but Huckleberry Finn is not the same book without it. It paints over the reality of those times.

Conservatives have not banned a single book; books can be purchased by anyone that wants them. They don't "cancel" the books or re write them.

But at some level, parents have a right to exclude books from school libraries, that they do want their children reading until they are older.

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