Kenny Cody wasn’t the only Newsmax columnist to play politics over Dr. Seuss. Michael Reagan (and co-writer Michael Shannon) ranted in a March 2 column:
We’re old enough to remember when local school boards reflected the culture and sensibilities of the surrounding community providing the students.
Those days are long gone.
Now all too many school boards reflect the latest intellectual fads and fashions of the Harvard School of Education faculty lounge.
Take the great minds inhabiting the Loudoun County, Virginia school board.
Fox News informs us the Loudoun County board has banned Dr. Seuss books from Read Across America Day. That’s the day “dedicated to the importance of reading and literacy. The day falls on Dr. Seuss’s birthday in honor of the impactful (sic) author, whose books have helped countless children learn to read across the globe.”
Learning for Justice, a racial grievance and division–mongering group, claims the children’s books are chock full of “orientalism, anti-Blackness and White supremacy.”
As we know, that’s not true — the Loudoun County schools did not “ban” Dr. Seuss books — it de-emphasized them for more diverse selection, following similar priorities from Read Across America Day.
But Reagan doesn’t care about facts as long as he has an argument to make. He declared that “All we ever detected was general hilarity and borderline chaos in the Seuss’ books” and rehashed the storyline of “Green Eggs and Ham,” which nobody was complaining about, and accused critics of the racism in some books of “wanting to deprive children of the Dr. Seuss experience,” which nobody is actually trying to do.