Nobody draws the Irish this way anymore. I blame cancel culture.pic.twitter.com/9mJZ6bPj2F
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This is not - I want to be clear on this - an argument for delisting or cancelling the Grinch or Cat in the Hat. The stereotypes they were built on are so distant & suppressed that they are really invisible (or almost so) to contemporary readers. But it's good history to know
So, something I didn't know:the simian Irish imagery continued for as long as X-Men #28 (1967) with The Banshee. (Created by Roy Thomas and Werner Roth).https://twitter.com/Jezzerat/status/1373149788586319874 …
Bro that’s Neil Young
On a crusade to get the grinch cancelled, are we?pic.twitter.com/7rKMIURF74
That looks like Young Newt!
And here I just thought he was a pizza eating ninja
And it is an established fact that Dr. Seuss books knowingly based the Grinch on these ethnic stereotypes or this is just speculation?
"Knowingly" is the wrong way to think about how visual artists are shaped by tradition. Seuss grew up in a period where these images were pervasive.
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