The Seuss estate was pretty clear this was a business decision. They have a brand to maintain and removing a few books with racial caricatures that are not in sync with the current culture is a sound call.

I mean, maybe you want to explain to a six-year-old tucked into bed the historical forces that led Seuss to depict Asians and Black people as grotesqueries.

I understand that you are passionate about 'cancel culture' but I do not think it exists. It is a fever, a fashion, not an existential threat to the republic. I mean, did cancel culture hurt the song WAP? Naw.

I do worry that the anti-cancel culture crowd needs to diminish the power of the state to make their arguments--there is a long and terrible tradition of governments crush dissent and brutally erasing counter-culture. Tweets are one thing but prison is another, and fascist states do you love locking up intellectuals and artists.

I appreciate you trying to connect with me politically, but I am a registered independent. I don't really care what Barack Obama thinks, for instance. But I am happy that you are politically active and it sounds like you and your allies in Georgia were persuasive and effective. Congrats.

I opposed Tipper Gore's attempts, you know, to convince the government to regulate popular music that she thought was corrupting the youth back in the 90s. I oppose tax-funded institutions banning books or movies without direct consent from the community. But the Seuss estate is trying to protect a business that made $33 million dollars last year.

Also: America has been forcing and shaming immigrants into changing their names since the 19th Century.

Thanks for the response and for reading.