Pierce on Dr. Seuss

Jeremy Pierce:

Here is what I don't see a lot of people saying in response to the Dr. Seuss books that the publisher will no longer be making. Theodore Geisel was a very progressive, liberal-minded person, anti-racist in the most literal sense of that term. Yet he portrayed people in ways that we today recognize to be stereotypical and somewhat offensive. People have been calling him a racist for years, when his views were anything but. How could the author of the Sneetches, an explicitly anti-racist story in the literal sense of that term, be counted as a racist just because he had absorbed some of the stereotypical imagery of his day and brought it out in his depictions of people from around the world when wanting to expose children to multi-cultural stuff and to think more globally?

Race first

My friend, Dr. James Lindsay, wrote this on his Facebook earlier today. He is referring to @D_B_Harrison and @VirgilWlkrOMAHA and their presentation at G3. James is an atheist. Please consider why James understands this and the Gospel Coalition does not. pic.twitter.com/O0TU8wyz5F

— Michael O'Fallon (@SovMichael) June 5, 2020