Fox News' latest conservaturd: the decision by the estate of Dr. Seuss to stop printing six of the author's books represents "cancel culture at silliest."
"A whole bunch of childhood legends are suddenly being put on cultural trial," Fox commentator Howard Kurtz says.
"Past generations produced artists and politicians who upheld ideas that are utterly unacceptable today. But we have more important things to do than constantly trying to whitewash every book and show produced by our flawed past."
I'm happy to chide the champions of witless wokeness. But Kurtz and his network—as always—are dead wrong.
But, racist zealots that they are, Kurtz and his network refuse to admit kids are influenced by books—and that some of those books are poison.
As caring parents, we keep poisons out of kids' reach for good reason. And poisonous books, too.
Consider, for example, The Poison Mushroom, a children's picture-book published by Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher.
Used in German classrooms between 1938 and 1945, The Poison Mushroom enjoyed a vast, captive audience until the Nazi's defeat and the Allies' "denazification" initiative.
The book explains how, just as it's hard to tell a poisonous from an edible mushroom, it's hard to tell a Jew from a Gentile.
The Poison Mushroom teaches kids to identify Jews through their purported actions: they abuse servants; kidnap, molest and murder children; rape pubescent girls; torture animals; cheat naive customers; and worship money and Karl Marx.
During the Nuremburg Trials, one jurist called The Poison Mushroom "obscene."
Given the strong resemblance between Julius Streicher's and QAnon's beliefs, I wouldn't be surprised to see Kurtz and his network next rail against last year's "cancellation" of The Poison Mushroom by Amazon.
Perhaps it's time to cancel Fox News.
