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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2021

      1. From a political angle, the culture wars are dispiriting because actual policy debates get sidetracked, but from a cultural angle they are equally dispiriting because actual culture gets reduced to crassly partisan terms. Consider again Seuss & ethnic caricature.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2021

      2. By reducing the Seuss issue to the nonsensical category of cancel culture, an opportunity was lost to bring up something important, the pervasive impact of blackface & ethnic caricature on popular culture. Only a few informed scholars like @philnel discussed this.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2021

      3. It's not widely understood that blackface & ethnic caricature weren't just popular in early 20th century, they were the very visual language through which America saw itself as a hybrid society.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2021

      4. Blackface & ethnic caricature introduced a gestural expressiveness that changed American comedy. It's main legacy is cartooning. Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny etc are heirs. These 1930 comic strips highlight how much Mickey owed to Al Jolson & minstrelrypic.twitter.com/6gPgGWU1lf

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2021

      5. This very early Mickey Mouse cartoon from 1930 was written by Walt Disney himself and drawn by Mickey's co-creator Ub Iwerks. It really makes clear the visual debt Mickey Mouse has to minstrel imagery. Not how Mickey is nearly a mirror image of the ooga-booga native.pic.twitter.com/xX7cUnBzPF

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2021

      6. Seuss grew up on such images and used them wholesale in his early work. But even as he started to move away from them (as a result of his own political shift during World War II), he repurposed these images into imaginary beings, as @philnel persuasively argues.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2021

      7. In the 19th and early 20th century in the United States (and indeed up till the present in the United Kingdom) it was common to portray the Irish as simians.pic.twitter.com/gSjcAlyfVn

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2021

      8. The Irish Simian lives on in two very popular characters: the American everyman Homer Simpson & the Grinch (which Michelle Abate traces back to images like this 19th drawing of Bridget McBruiser).pic.twitter.com/5ZTcKOf9RL

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2021

      9. I was dissatisfied with both sides of the Seuss wars. Unlike lunkheads like Ted Cruz, I wouldn't ever show the racist ooga-booga images to kids. But I don't want the books to go out of print either; cultural history is too important. The books should stay in print for adults.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2021

      10. My sure-to-please-nobody solution is that Seuss should be in the public domain so the early books with racist/ethnic stereotypes can stay in print and be part of a discussion of the pervasiveness of racist iconography. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/seuss-racism-cancel-legacy/ …

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2021

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          11. This is a good selection of drawings that really show the debt the funny animal tradition owes to blackface. Again: not an argument for "cancelling" (whatever the fuck that means) but rather for historical awareness.https://twitter.com/ben_towle/status/1379855208721874946 …

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          I talk about this when I teach animal/anthro character design. Peeps sometimes don't wanna hear it but it's true. I posit that the weird animal-cheek thing (not on actual animals really) that's now endemic in a lot of animal characters, furry art, etc. is a direct lift from this. pic.twitter.com/5m7FnTQtbC
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        2. Joe Meek‏ @MaisonDeSnark 7 Apr 2021
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          The pdfs are wideky available, much like Song of the South DVDs on Amazon.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2021
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          I think archival editions that contextual the racism would be better than bootleg pdfs or dvds.

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        1. Now, More Than Ever Rifer‏ @TheLifeofRifer 7 Apr 2021
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          There is an important modal distinction between, “this is an interesting cultural artifact”, and “this should be in the Children’s section on Amazon”.

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        2. Warren Terra‏ @warren__terra 7 Apr 2021
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          They'll still be in the libraries, why should they remain in print against the wishes of the copyright holder, while the copyright remains valid? If you want to shorten copyright, that's a reasonable goal. But I don't understand this circumventing of it in particular cases.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2021
          Replying to @warren__terra

          These books are nearly a century old. There is no reason for copyright holders, who are neither the creator nor the creator's family, to have a monopoly on them. Monopoly is a special privilege granted for a public good. What is the good here?

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        1. Doug Redecopp‏ @DRedecopp 7 Apr 2021
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          How about the family releasing their dropped books to the public domain?

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        1. ¡Brian!‏ @barnhab 7 Apr 2021
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          This take will please @mattyglesias

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