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    1. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation 7 Apr 2021

      RiShawn Biddle Retweeted Jeet Heer

      Folks can go to the library and borrow those racist and xenophobic texts if they want. There are more copies of To Think That I Saw It out there than there are of many other books - including those by highly talented Black people.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1379847040591536133 …

      RiShawn Biddle added,

      Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
      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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    2. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation 7 Apr 2021

      RiShawn Biddle Retweeted Jeet Heer

      This is your reminder that Heet Jeer, a signatory of the Harper's Letter, is a Person of Color. Which doesn't mean that he is for Black people.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1379840420323094532 …

      RiShawn Biddle added,

      Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
      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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    3. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation 7 Apr 2021

      RiShawn Biddle Retweeted Jeet Heer

      Seriously, Heer really thinks that corporations shouldn't have control over IP - because they correctly suppress books that promote White Supremacy and systematic bigotry. Seriously. Note that Jeer would not be down for caricatures of South Asians.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1379847590867427328 …

      RiShawn Biddle added,

      Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
      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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    4. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation 7 Apr 2021

      RiShawn Biddle Retweeted Noah Berlatsky

      Berlatsky is right in summarizing Heer's penchant for excusing anti-Black racism.https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1379892442950995970 …

      RiShawn Biddle added,

      Noah BerlatskyVerified account @nberlat
      Jeet's borderline apology for blackface imagery is a consistent theme throughout his career, I think because he wants to apologize for Crumb. (and perhaps because more broadly it's so important to early cartooning, which he loves.)
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    5. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation 7 Apr 2021

      RiShawn Biddle Retweeted Jeet Heer

      If you're White or part of a group pursuing White adjacency. If you're Black, the answer is Hell No! I don't need a scholarly text to tell me about the ways White Supremacy has manifested over centuries. I got W.E.B. and Derek Bell for that.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1379897373934034944 …

      RiShawn Biddle added,

      Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
      Replying to @dropoutnation
      As if there is no added value from archival and scholarly editions
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2021
      Replying to @dropoutnation

      We'll have to disagree here. I think letting corporate brand managers like Seuss Enterprise and Disney whitewash the racist origins of still common images is bad for historical understanding and bad for anti-racism.

      1:53 PM - 7 Apr 2021
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