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#1320691
freako104
It is no wonder Obama is president. We just had Bush in office. And the book is about the negative effects of pollution.
And am I the only noticing an irony in the last statement?
8/10/2011 10:29:02 AM
#1320692
Osiris
Sustainability: The idea of protecting business from destroying themselves by consuming resources faster then they can be replenished.
Environmentalism: The idea that poisoning our food and water is a really bad idea.
If you are opposed to either of these ideas then you might as well teach your kids that they can fly by leaping off cliffs.
8/10/2011 10:29:20 AM
#1320699
JSS
{I think the language in the book is dumb, too. Why invent words like "biggerer" (used repeatedly) instead of using the word "bigger".}
Because Dr. Seuss is obviously a leftist hatemonger who wrote his books only to frustrate angry conservatives who try and find invisible agendas in everything fun in life, not because it could just well be a children's book.
8/10/2011 10:33:10 AM
#1320701
Lucilius
Pathetic as it is, the logging industry did in fact crank out a clumsy response to Dr. Seuss, featuring "Truax the friendly logger," who tells an embittered hairy-hippie Lorax about how much clear-cutting really HELPS the planet. I'm serious.
But even in that one, I suspect the words are too big for reagnut1.
8/10/2011 10:34:13 AM
#1320708
ME
Really?!?!?! Fucking Really?!!?! You are only jut now reading the "Lorax"? And it is somehow responsible for Obama being president? It is somehow a left -wing conspiracy book? WOW, just WOW!!! How much Seuss have you read? It seems like not much; maybe it has too many biggerer words in it for you.
8/10/2011 10:39:42 AM
#1320711
You're looking for book recommendations? You might try David Icke's books. Sounds like he's the only person paranoid enough for you.
8/10/2011 10:42:01 AM
#1320715
N. De Plume
@Osiris: I like those definitions. I’d like to use them myself sometime.
8/10/2011 10:47:23 AM
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8/10/2011 11:11:05 AM
#1320728
Rapax Pringer
"I think the language in the book is dumb, too. Why invent words like "biggerer" (used repeatedly) instead of using the word "bigger"."
IT'S A FUCKING CHILDREN'S BOOK. THE LANGUAGE IS SUPPOSED TO BE INTENTIONALLY STUPID.
8/10/2011 11:13:49 AM
#1320736
aaa
And soon, the kid realizes that his daddy is not exactly a smart man.
8/10/2011 11:28:48 AM
#1320779
Atheissimo
No, really. Dr Seuss was a man who could draw propoganda. During the war he churned out tons of anti-Japanese stuff for the American government. To call his children's books propaganda is an insult to his REAL propaganda
8/10/2011 1:10:10 PM
#1320782
Toothygrin
OMG, they're targeting Seuss now?
Someone give us the WTF tree...
8/10/2011 1:15:58 PM
#1320783
I read "The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss yesterday evening to my 5-year-old. My wife had borrowed it from the library. I was expecting an amusing kid's book like "Green Eggs and Ham" (also by Seuss), but what I got was tiresome environmental, anti-business agit-prop. Ugh. Almost everyone on Amazon has given it 5 stars -- no wonder Obama is president.
So teaching children to be responsible with the Earth is bad?
I think the language in the book is dumb, too. Why invent words like "biggerer" (used repeatedly) instead of using the word "bigger".
1) It's a children's book.
2) It's a Dr. Seuss book, of course there is going to be made up words. It's part of the charm.
It's too bad I need to screen children's books for political indoctrination. I wonder if there are sites where conservative parents have recommended books.
I'm so sure you would feel the same about "Miss Kitty: The Republican Cat" or "Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!" Yes, these are real books.
8/10/2011 1:18:12 PM
#1320790
xmx
From the same thread...
"My 21-year-old daughter has a group game she likes to play with friends. They spend about ten minutes in Barnes and Noble or some other large bookstore hunting for the most overt politically-correct book each can find and then declare a winner. She says she usually wins and her secret is she heads directly to the children’s book section."
I call bullshit.
8/10/2011 1:31:14 PM
#1320797
SeekerLancer
Way to pervert a classic childrens book's admirable moral teaching and completely miss the point of Dr. Suess' whimsical writing style along the way.
You are a pathetic human being.
8/10/2011 1:40:39 PM
#1320802
Professor M
Better not read your kids Where the Wild Things Are either -- Maurice Sendak is one o' them homa-seck-shools.
(Whenever I see Dr. Seuss mentioned, I just get fond memories of studying in the Dr. Seuss Library -- OK, it's officially the (Theodor Seuss) Geisel Library -- at UCSD when I was in high school.)
8/10/2011 1:50:54 PM
#1320820
rw23
> I wonder if there are sites where conservative parents have recommended books.
Yeah, there are. You can find one at www.not-on-bonfires-(yet).com.
8/10/2011 3:35:19 PM
#1320830
John-in-Oz
If you don't like it, write a better one.
8/10/2011 4:12:53 PM
#1320840
If he's looking for children's books to indoctrinate his child with he could always just read him "There's Liberals Under My Bed". Google it.
8/10/2011 5:04:58 PM
#1320850
Raised by Horses
In addition, this morning my alphabet soup spelled a word that eerily resembled "Obama". Campbell's soup manufacturing company is very clearly in bed with the left-wing propaganda machine.
@Dr. Shrinker
STFU U DAM LIBRUL MARXISTCOMMIE.
8/10/2011 5:50:19 PM
#1320855
farpadokly
Write your own book then. Make it pro-business and anti-environment. Call it "Little Johnny Cuts Down a Thousand Trees and Makes a Profit". Use some of that entrepreneurial free market spirit, instead of sitting whining about it.
8/10/2011 6:06:40 PM
#1320859
Horsefeathers
"I read "The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss yesterday evening to my 5-year-old. My wife had borrowed it from the library. I was expecting an amusing kid's book like "Green Eggs and Ham" (also by Seuss), but what I got was tiresome environmental, anti-business agit-prop. Ugh. Almost everyone on Amazon has given it 5 stars -- no wonder Obama is president."
I'll bet he wasn't even a real doctor either, the fraud!
"think the language in the book is dumb, too. Why invent words like 'biggerer' (used repeatedly) instead of using the word 'bigger'."
Seriously? You can't figure this one out yourself?
"It's too bad I need to screen children's books for political indoctrination. I wonder if there are sites where conservative parents have recommended books."
Recommend them for what? To be burned? To be banned? Not to read, surely.
8/10/2011 6:34:58 PM
#1320862
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
I second the WTF tree and add a wharrgrbl dog.
It's a children's book. It's meant to teach an important lesson in a way children can understand and be entertaining. All the crap you said about it is batshit rambling.
8/10/2011 6:47:41 PM
#1320878
Deep Search
Anti-business? They cut down all the Truffula Trees and turned everything into a wasteland and the Once-ler business went under because they used up all the resources. Only a brain dead idiot would believe that using the land until it's a dump and destroying the environment is a good thing. Did they actually read the entire book?
And, really, made up words in Dr. Seuss? That's impossibilifyingly unpossible!
8/10/2011 7:56:28 PM
#1320881
mefamwee
Usually I'd be the first to disagree with someone who's finding leftist propaganda in a children's book but honestly, I find the whole "businesses are bad, save the environment!!1!11!" rhetoric quite tiresome too..
8/10/2011 8:32:13 PM
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