dr seuss books that weren’t written by dr seuss. troubling 🤔
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i guarantee there’s no better way to pass your anxieties on to the next generation than by writing children’s books totally suffused with them
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the most antiracist possible children’s book would be some shit like “wow look at all these cool fucking rocks,” you want to get children concretely engaged with the world and *not* with their identities
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you think black girls won’t notice they’re apparently the only kids who need an entire bookshelf to tell them that they’re “enough”???
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from the faces on the books alone you’d think black girls make up 70% of the population, meanwhile apparently 2% of the actual population of this city is black. so who are these books *for*???
meanwhile redmond is 36% asian and there’s *zero* asian representation
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in conclusion: how do i become a children’s book author, apparently they’ll let any old millennial do this shit now
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i have much more interesting anxieties to pass on to the next generation, such as: “is god dead?” “have we forgotten how to run civilization?” “have we called up that which we don’t know how to put down?”
gotta be worth a book deal or two
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this is a very autistic approach to a children's book
it's correct of course
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🌲sentiment
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all the kids’ book displays I see in bookstores and libraries are so self-parody-ish that if I posted photos people would think I was making stuff up
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we tried "I don't see color" all through the 90s bro.
it did not kill racism, unfortunately
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it's like counteractive fixes to societal trauma
and as in individual trauma, arguably better than nothing for addressing immediately distressing symptoms, but in the long run could make transformative healing more difficult
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but transformative fixes for societal trauma is even less well understood than for individual trauma so in the meantime I'm not gonna deny the usefulness of the metaphorical CBT workbook
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