What happened to the "land of the free and the home of the brave"?

 

Rich Terrell

TCM Puts Classic Films ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’, ‘Tarzan’, ‘Psycho’, ‘GWTW’ And More Under Microscope For Offensive Content  "It seems we are living through a phase of so-called “cancel culture” these days. Just this week, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced it will no longer publish six lesser-known books by the famed children’s author due to offensive and racist depictions. Mr. Potato Head is now non-gender. Some episodes of The Muppet Show has special warning labels on Disney+. Aunt Jemima is KO’d on the syrup shelves. In a sweeping wave of reassessing cultural images we have grown up with in our American life, a new and more sensitive spotlight is being presented on the way we view the past through the prism of a more politically correct 2021." . . .

I have always been very troubled by the portrayal of African-Americans in older shows and often picture much better ways to do that when wishing I could. But abolishing any movies gives those doing such a power over us they do not deserve nor that has any limits.

eBay scraps ‘canceled’ Dr. Seuss books from site  . . . "EBay is barring users from reselling the six Dr. Seuss books that will no longer be printed due to their “racist” imagery — a move that comes after the books started going for hundreds of dollars on the auction site.

“EBay is currently sweeping our marketplace to remove these items,” an eBay spokeswoman told the Wall Street Journal in an email." . . .

‘They really despise America’: Gingrich pans Democrat’s push to lower voting age to 16, cancel Dr. Seuss "Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich railed against Democrats pushing to cancel Dr. Seuss, lower the federal voting age to 16, and quickly enact legislation that will radically change the political direction of the country." . . .

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti on Dr. Seuss: ‘There Is No Place for Racist Imagery’ Whatever the cool kids on campus like. 

The Left’s New Moral Framework Includes Zero Forgiveness, Even For Dr. Seuss "Instead of a populace with a developed understanding of sin, and a prudent sense of what to punish and what to tolerate, we now have personal and social moral instability." 

. . . "The cancelation of Dr. Seuss is what happens when people try to deal with the sins of the world all by themselves. Having been raised amidst moral destitution, their haphazard, disproportionate, confused, and often panicked efforts are to be expected.

"There is certainly malice in the cancel culture they promulgate, but there is also desperate spiritual poverty. This is why the old Christian response to sin goes beyond morality, declaring that we all don’t just need hearts three sizes larger, we need new ones."