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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I think it's great. It's a courtesy heads-up that the world's going to look at them in a particular way but they have inner worth despite that.
That's probably better than them being unaware and then being completely blindsided and then unable to cope.
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East asian men who are afraid of getting out due to the fear of disappointing their families need some representations on children’s bookshelves
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Well we started with how special girls are so let's see where that goes...uh oh
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who hatches the egg? anyone can, it's so unimportant!
girl power!!!11
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