Just no!

Reciting memorized books, fahrenheit 451

Dr. Seuss's publisher will stop publishing 6 titles because they’re “racist”.

Dr. Seuss Enterprises — the firm charged with preserving and protecting the beloved author’s legacy — said it scrapped the books because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.”

“Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ catalog represents and supports all communities and families,” the company said in a statement Tuesday, which is also the author’s birthday.

Dr. Seuss Enterprises said it decided last year to stop publishing and licensing the titles — which include “If I Ran the Zoo,” “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!” and “The Cat’s Quizzer” — after consulting with a panel of educators and other experts.

… And “Mulberry Street,” the first children’s book Geisel published under his pen name, contains a controversial illustration of an Asian man holding chopsticks and a bowl of rice whom the text called a “Chinaman who eats with sticks.”

I urge you to get a hard copy of Seuss’s “Thidwick, the Big Hearted Moose” before the masters discover that it’s about free-loading, lazy parasites exploiting the able, and reaping their just deserts. Someone here —Publius? Cato? — recommended assembling a library of books and movies that will otherwise soon be gone. I do have collection of Mark Twain originals, but I’m going to have to expand that.

Along with my ammunition stockpile.

UPDATE: For those of us too blind to see, the Bee provides examples of the hidden racist clues