Classically Abby - March 05, 2021


Dr. Seuss Is Being CANCELLED. Will We STOP This？？ ｜｜ The Scoop #25


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8 minutes

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1,759

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127

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Dr. Seuss is no longer being sold in stores, and the left is trying to make a case for why this is the end of the road for the beloved author and his beloved characters. Is this the beginning of the end for the world as we know it?

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00:00:00.000 Hello Classic Crew and welcome to today's episode of The Scoop.
00:00:06.640 If you are new to my channel, The Scoop is our opportunity to catch up,
00:00:10.500 go over what went on over the course of the week, and just act like we're grabbing a cup of coffee
00:00:14.280 together. And here on my channel we talk about commentary, lifestyle, beauty, fashion, and opera,
00:00:19.760 all from a conservative and classic perspective. If that's something that you'd like, feel free
00:00:24.240 to subscribe and make sure to ring that notification bell so you're notified of all my new videos.
00:00:28.120 Grab a cup of coffee, a cup of tea, some water, whatever it is you want, and let's get into it.
00:00:33.460 So the first thing that I want to talk about today is Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss Enterprises has decided to
00:00:38.660 stop printing six of Dr. Seuss's books, including If I Ran the Zoo and To Think That I Saw It on
00:00:45.160 Mulberry Street. Because according to them, the books portray people in ways that are hurtful
00:00:50.640 and wrong. They decided to stop printing these books after consulting with a panel of experts,
00:00:56.460 including educators. To be clear, Dr. Seuss was not a racist. His book The Sneetches specifically
00:01:03.340 talks about how no one is better than anyone else based on their appearance. But let's make this
00:01:08.380 clear. This is book burning. The left is defending this decision, saying that Dr. Seuss is not being
00:01:15.520 canceled. Just look at how the rest of his books are still in print. For now. The left says we are just
00:01:21.560 changing as a society for the better. This is lies. This is not just change. This is taking an
00:01:28.640 author's book off the shelves, making them unavailable because someone decided that no one
00:01:34.500 should read them. The left isn't simply saying, we're not going to buy these books. They're not
00:01:39.340 for us. The left is saying you don't have the right to read what you want. The left wants to control
00:01:45.920 what you read, what you watch, and what you do based on their idea of what's good and moral and
00:01:53.000 right. And they do this while treating you as if you're stupid and as if the people who don't want 0.99
00:01:59.020 books to be burned are the real fascists. Freedom of speech is being taken from us. Censorship is 1.00
00:02:05.700 winning. And cancellations never stop with just one thing. It is always a slippery slope because the left
00:02:12.680 doesn't have a limit. Where would the left stop with this? Why would they stop? They think that
00:02:17.880 everything they don't control is evil, racist, sexist, bigoted, because only they know how not to
00:02:25.240 be those things. With that mentality, of course they'll cancel everything. Dr. Seuss wasn't racist
00:02:30.720 and neither are his books. No one really thinks he is. But the left is testing, pushing the boundaries,
00:02:37.040 seeing how far they can push us before our entire society is canceled right before our eyes.
00:02:42.340 It's a lot harder for us to finally say no when we've been saying okay, okay, okay over and over
00:02:49.440 to the left for years. If you think Dr. Seuss is the end of this, you're absolutely wrong. Get ready
00:02:54.820 for all books, movies, shows, any type of content that tells the truth to be taken off the shelf for
00:03:00.980 not telling the left's truth. Now of course there are those who are going to say, why should we care
00:03:05.840 about Dr. Seuss? Last week I got, why should we care about Mr. Potato Head? This is just kid stuff.
00:03:11.540 That is precisely why I care. Because they're starting with the stuff that affects our children
00:03:16.980 and because it was only last week that Mr. Potato Head was in the news for becoming gender neutral.
00:03:23.560 The next generation is walking into a world where up is down and down is up, where the truth doesn't
00:03:29.120 matter as much as your truth, where you can be hated for the color of your skin, your gender,
00:03:33.960 and your orientation based on the fact that you're a white cisgender male, and where knowledge
00:03:38.700 will be denied them by those who deem themselves right and good, and believe that they can choose
00:03:44.560 knowledge for everyone. And this is accelerating. Ten years ago, if anyone had said that Mr. Potato Head
00:03:51.440 would go gender neutral, or that Dr. Seuss would be banned off the shelves, no one would believe you. 0.88
00:03:56.760 And yet here we are, right now, as this is happening. We need to recognize that this is incredibly
00:04:02.800 important, and this will have ramifications. So I'd really like to hear your guys' thoughts in the
00:04:08.980 comments. Make sure to let me know what you're thinking, what you've heard. I'd love to hear.
00:04:13.560 And because of everything that happened with Dr. Seuss this past week, I actually went in search for
00:04:18.740 a movie that I watched as a kid called In Search of Dr. Seuss. That was the name of the movie.
00:04:22.740 And I remember loving it as a kid, because it's all about Dr. Seuss, and then it also has cartoons
00:04:28.720 and reenactments of his books. I loved that movie. And when I googled it, I actually was able to find
00:04:34.660 the entire thing on YouTube, so you are definitely able to watch it. It's wonderful. It teaches you
00:04:39.980 all about Dr. Seuss, who he was, who he—his real name was Theodore Geisel, why he wrote his whole life
00:04:46.680 story. It's fascinating, and it's really worth watching. So if you've not seen that movie, or if you've
00:04:51.680 not heard of it, it's really cute. Something to watch with the kids, I think. And I loved that movie
00:04:57.100 growing up, so it was really nostalgic to go back and watch it myself. Next up, I wanted to talk about
00:05:02.180 Texas. So Texas just announced that they are ending their mask mandate, and they are allowing businesses
00:05:07.760 to open 100% if they would like to. And of course, people aren't happy about it. But here's what I have
00:05:13.400 to say. Let's see what happens. It seems to me that even now, we still don't know that much about
00:05:18.580 coronavirus because we get new updates every week. And if you're someone who wants to keep
00:05:23.000 wearing a mask, guess what? No one is taking your mask from you. I recognize that wearing a mask is
00:05:28.720 more for others than it is for you, but there are many places that will still require a mask on their
00:05:33.800 premises. So if you want to go to places that only require a mask and the people around you are also
00:05:38.880 wearing a mask, go there. Absolutely fine. And there are masks like the N95 masks that do protect you 0.64
00:05:45.160 in addition to others. And if you don't want to wear a mask, and you do want to open your business 100%,
00:05:49.660 you get that choice now. That's really all this comes down to. We're allowing people to make choices.
00:05:55.740 And that's not a bad thing. The next thing I want to talk about is Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.
00:06:00.680 So I don't know if you've seen this going around. First of all, I have my issues with Meghan Markle
00:06:06.720 and Prince Harry. They have said numerous times that the reason that they stopped being royals
00:06:12.940 was because they wanted their privacy. They wanted to be out of the public eye. And yet they continue
00:06:19.500 to take interviews and thrust themselves into the public sphere. And I just don't understand that
00:06:24.840 because honestly, I could imagine a world where people wouldn't want to be in the public eye. And so
00:06:29.540 they removed themselves and lived a quiet life. But that's not what they're doing. They're being so public
00:06:35.460 about their lives. They're still in the public eye, but now they just get to do it on their terms,
00:06:40.180 I guess. And that to me is obnoxious. Don't say that you're taking a step back from public life and
00:06:47.220 then that's not the case at all. But even as all of this is happening, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry
00:06:52.060 are doing a tell-all interview with Oprah. And just before that came out, it came out that Meghan Markle
00:06:58.080 has bullying accusations against her from people who worked for her while she was a royal. And I'm
00:07:03.380 interested to see what kind of information comes out because the fact of the matter is, as I said
00:07:08.040 before, they didn't take a step back from public life. They didn't put themselves in a situation
00:07:12.840 where they could live more privately. They took a step back from royal life and stayed in the public
00:07:18.860 eye and actually pushed themselves into the public eye pretty frequently. So that is not something I can
00:07:26.180 look at and say that it seems like they were honestly looking for a quieter life. The last thing I
00:07:31.840 wanted to talk about today is listening to basic economics. So I talked about in another video on
00:07:37.880 my channel where I was talking about the 10 books I wanted to read this year that I wanted to read
00:07:40.920 basic economics. And it's something I've actually been listening to on Audible. I cannot tell you how
00:07:47.320 surprised I am still at how easy it is to listen to. It is so easy to listen to. I have learned so much
00:07:54.980 and it's not difficult. I so recommend if you don't have the time to sit down and read that giant book,
00:08:01.340 if you want to just listen to it while you're on a drive or while you're on a walk or while you're
00:08:06.780 doing chores, you can. It doesn't feel like you have to constantly go back and re-listen to things.
00:08:11.840 It's really, really well narrated, so well written, and it teaches you so, so much. So I highly recommend
00:08:20.380 that book. Highly recommend it on Audible, and I'd love to know if you've read it yourself. So that's
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