If You Consider Yourself 'Enlightened', 'Progressive' & All The Rest...& You Simply Cannot Help Yourself, But Find Yourself Somehow-Or-Other Seeking to Justify, Rationalize Or Otherwise Exonerate Today's Plethora of Self-Righteous Academic Zealots Busily Beavering Away In The Backblocks & Now Turning Their Blinkered 'Vision' To Censoring Theodore Geisel (Dr Suess) No Less...Then I'm Sorry, You're So Far Gone...Down Eric Blair(George Orwell)'s Road of No Return (As So Well Portrayed in His Two Seminal Classics, 1984 and Animal Farm)...That I Fear There's Really No Help For You... Except To Declare 'God Help You!'

Hey, bless you, John Robson - of 'The National Post': Your 16-stanza poetic 'ditty' sums up the situation perfectly. (And Dr Suess himself would justly be proud of you.)

Postscript:

Though regrettably I've lately learned that it was the Suess Foundation itself, no less, that has unilaterally chosen to forego re-publishing the six offending books in question...

...leaving Yours Truly to wonder whether the whole kerfuffle - rather than being yet another evidence of academics gone berserk (though not pretending or rather naively imagining such wasn't indeed a precipitating background factor in the whole situation) - wasn't actually a very clever marketing gimmick to increase sales globally...

...which if that was said aim, it has evidently succeeded beyond the Foundation's wildest anticipations, worldwide sales apparently booming in the aftermath of this...

Post-Postscript:

Methinks, however, it was actually a combo of the preceding, those aforementioned academic zealots being the precipitating factor (of said kerfuffle) and the Suess Foundation merely reacting in what they took to be the most conciliatory and least contentious fashion, by declining to republish said 'offending items' thereby hoping to placate the upset people...

...in said process actually contributing to the following (perceived) outcomes, in my opinion:

*a publishing/purchasing boom on behalf of Theodore Geisel Suess (or rather, now, his estate)

*from offended devotees of the beloved 'doctor' (such as Yours Truly), rallying around his cause

*as said 'cause' seemed under attack from the self-righteous academic outrage industry of our day

*who likewise felt they secured a (successful) 'hit' as the SF seemingly scrambled to assauge them

All in all a win-win for all concerned: for Suess 'himself' and his reputation, his devotees and even his critics...

...though the latter are utterly and completely unworthy of the least victory far as this particular punter is concerned, except for securing a well-earned place within Winston Smith's Thought Ministry... 

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