Remember when “Cancel Culture” started? It was quite a few years ago when we were being shamed into not being able to say “Merry Christmas” in order to not offend someone. And now here we are, years later, being told that such iconic cartoons and books are racist and that they need to be taken off the shelf of bookstores and libraries. The Muppets? Seriously? Maybe it was Statler and Waldorf the cantankerous “Old White Men” from the balcony who are considered to be “racist”? Curious George? Are you kidding me? What kid did not have a fantasy of having a pet monkey? Just because they are trying to draw a correlation between taking a monkey from the jungle and into captivity to abducting a black person into slavery. Pepe le Pew? Come on! His unwanted “sexual advances” to Penelope the Cat are causing him to be cancelled when at the same time Andrew Cuomo is still in office and Joe Biden’s sexual assault on Tare Reade was swept under the rug? Now, the latest falls on to Dr. Seuss. The man who was known for the children’s books with wild and wacky characters of all different shapes, sizes, and colors is somehow racist? This is not up to “Big Brother”. This is not “1984.”
To quote author Judy Blume, “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear.”
But this is not about fear, it is about censorship and controlling what we think and what we say. Cancel Culture is about denying people to speak freely and actually debate a topic and come to their own conclusions. Cancel Culture is about erasing history because, God help us, if everyone learned our country’s history, they would learn that the Democratic Party was built on slavery and gave birth to the KKK and Jim Crow Laws. Democrats have to use Cancel Culture to hide these facts or they might lose some votes. Afterall, it was the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, that went to war to free the slaves. Remember when we used to be able to “Agree to disagree”? That seems to have been canceled too.
To quote another Author, George R.R. Martin, “When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
We are now being told, and it is being taught in schools, about the “1619 Project” where all White people are born a racist. It is sickening to hear but it is more sickening that it is being taught in schools. It made me wonder about when Obama said “Pretty much all you need to know is in Dr. Seuss” when speaking to a bunch of school kids about how to treat people equally. If you think about that statement with the same twisted logic as a Liberal, then wouldn’t that make Obama a racist? Afterall, he supports a “racist” in Dr. Seuss?
Enough is enough. Cancel Culture needs to be canceled. We cannot follow blindly like sheep to the slaughter. As Albert Einstein said, “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”