I think I have been good about staying out of Seuss Discourse but I gotta say that it is freaking weird watching people immediately coalesce around the narrative that WHO CARES NO ONE HAS HEARD OF THESE BOOKS rather than exhibit an iota of critical curiosity. Seems cultish.
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seems reasonable enough
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The depressing thing, is that (as you say) the logic of moral contagion is thoroughly at work, here. So the nanosecond you concede any association with minstrelsy the cat is then a minstrel and has to be sanitized from the archives.
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Is there any art which is *not* implicated in some tradition or another that does not comport with the moral trends of the moment?
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It's important to study history even if it leads you to conclusions you find uncomfortable.
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Literally all of American pop culture has been influenced by the minstrel show. How we deal with that inheritance will always be a struggle, but trying to cleanse the culture of minstrelry's taint is the sort of absurd goal is that makes for moral panic
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This right here.
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Don’t give Jeet ideas.
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"Cancel" Broadway, then we'll talk.
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Pretty much all of American music, and thus current world music, including a lot of music we think of as black, is heavily instruments by Minstrel shows. it's an interesting historical point but it does not in any way taint the present stuff
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