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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet10. 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/ …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
RiShawn Biddle Retweeted Noah Berlatsky
Berlatsky is right in summarizing Heer's penchant for excusing anti-Black racism.https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1379892442950995970 …
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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 …
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Seriously, I am a Black man in America, a nation in which superhero characters were created explicitly by one generation of folks pursuing White adjacency to the exclusion of Black folks. I can tell you about that history in one short thread.
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It's akin to arguing that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion should remain in print in order for non-Jewish folks to learn about anti-Semitism. You can talk to real-live Jewish people about that - and they lay it all down for you in one conversation.
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I think both the Protocols and Mein Kampf should be kept in print in scholarly editions that document their influence and their lies. To not do that is to give up a necessary tool for understanding and fighting anti-Semitism.
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