In a 1988 paper in “American Cinematographer,” J. That’s the defense being offered by the anti-“cancel culture” crowd: The Seuss books need to be understood and appreciated in their original context.īut context is everything, no? By the time “The Three Little Pigs” was reissued in 1948, there were 6 million fewer Jews on the planet. You can barely watch a black-and-white film on TCM without seeing a cringe-inducing stereotype. “Der Sturmer” might have complained it was over the top.Įthnic stereotypes were of course common at the time: The Marx Brothers, for example, are each based on an ethnic type, from Groucho’s “Jewish” professor to Chico’s Italian trickster. It’s quite a disguise: Stills show him wearing a grotesquely phallic nose, a long black beard and an ankle-length caftan – and he speaks in a Yiddish accent.
Seuss books soared.)Īctually, I didn’t have to make up an example of an anti-Jewish character that was “canceled,” or as I prefer to put it, “was removed from circulation for being wildly offensive.”ĭisney’s Oscar-winning 1933 cartoon, “The Three Little Pigs,” originally featured a scene in which the Big Bad Wolf disguises himself as a Jewish peddler to trick one of the pigs.
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The right responded with characteristic restraint, saying Big Seuss had caved to the PC police. Seuss estate says it will no longer publish six books that “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” including racist and stereotypical depictions of Blacks and Asians. (The background: The firm that handles the Dr. And perhaps it will modify your righteous anger about this latest example of “cancel culture.” But if that sentence gave you pause, then it should help you empathize with others who object to some of the ethnic stereotypes in early books by the classic children’s author. Seuss book, “Dilly Goes to Delancey Street,” that features a black-bearded, hook-nosed Jewish man leering at a pair of little girls in white pinafores.Īctually, no such book exists.
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