Originally Posted by gimmick
Well cancel culture is mostly made up controversy so take it how you want.
Do you think Geisel revising his own work in the 80s is cancel culture? Times change, people change, if you wanna stay relevant, wanna guess what you need to do. And go figure, market rewards you for it.
My guess is they had plans for revised editions well before they broke the news.
You seem to have a hard time with understanding the concept of cancel culture. I think it's intentional, because to understand it means you have to also reevaluate a lot of your far left views.
Anyone has a right to go back and reevaluate past work, and modify it if they no longer like it. If Geisel was told in 1985 that some of his work was insensitive or out of step with the times, and he thought about it and agreed, then that's not cancel culture. That's someone receiving constructive criticism, reevaluating their own work, and modifying it.
Cancel culture occurs when changes are made to a past work due to fear of consequences, rather than an actual change in beliefs. I doubt that Dr. Seuss' current ownership really feels that Asian guys wearing funny hats is offensive or horribly racist. However, after receiving increasing complaints from the woke mob, they saw controversy coming, so they offered six books as a sacrifice in order to appease these people. That's cancel culture.
See the difference?
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