In this week's entry in Right Wing Insanity, we have...Dr. Seuss.
I shit you not. This one has been amazing in its dishonesty and stupidity all at the same time. Here's the summary I put up on Facebook:
1. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the private entity that owns the copyrights to Dr. Seuss's books, makes a decision to remove six books from the market, because the books contain racist imagery typical of their time.
2. The FOX News crowd freaks out about "cancellation", even though, once more for the people in back, this was a market decision made by a private entity. (These are the people who usually claim to love "freedom" and "the market", but invariably lose their shit when "the market" uses its "freedom" to recognize realities they don't like.)
Now the funny part:
3. FOX News fans buy Seuss books en masse, thinking apparently to show support for the cancellation-in-progress author, thus giving buckets of THEIR OWN MONEY to the very private entity that made the market decision in the first place.
Let's not forget that these are the same people who think the election was stolen, that masks are useless, that climate isn't changing, that tax cuts raise revenue, that trickle-down works, and so on.
That's about it. "We're so mad about this thing that we're gonna shovel money at the people who did the thing we're pretending to be mad about!" It's like deciding to prank the people down the street by ordering a dozen pizzas to be delivered to their house...but paying for the pizzas with your own credit card.
And why do I say "pretending"?
Because nobody in the media, no matter what Tucker Carlson or Ben Shapiro or any of the other talking heads on FOX News, is actually upset by this. It's just pretend nonsense, as cynical an attempt to whip up the base as anything I've ever seen. FOX News, for all its beating of the drum, won't even show the offending images on teevee; and here you see a Republican MAGA weirdo Congressional candidate spouting a staggering amount of lying for a single tweet:
Let me get this straight.
— Chris Bish 🇺🇲 (@BishForCongress) March 3, 2021
On the right are the lyrics for Nicki Minaj’s song “Anaconda”. This song was played on mainstream radio and on YouTube with no age warning.
On the left are the words of a Dr. Seuss book.
Joe Biden only considers the Dr. Seuss book inappropriate.
WOW! pic.twitter.com/byYEMjpbFB
Note that Ms. Bish is pretending that some cherry-picked random thing from Dr. Seuss is what is actually the issue, and also note her mention of President Biden as if he has the first thing to do with any of this. Hey, Ms. Bish! Want to show the offending pictures of African or Chinese people, and tell us why you think they're perfectly fine? No? Didn't think so.
The rubes have got to stop falling for this shit, and what's more, it would be helpful if they'd start to ask themselves: If they're being this dishonest in trying to fire me up, what else are they lying through their teeth about? That, friends, would be a far more profitable rabbit hole to explore than whatever nonsense the QAnon people are floating on any given day.
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