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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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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The pdfs are wideky available, much like Song of the South DVDs on Amazon.
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I think archival editions that contextual the racism would be better than bootleg pdfs or dvds.
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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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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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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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How about the family releasing their dropped books to the public domain?
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This take will please
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