CNN’s Jake Tapper defends censorship of Dr. Seuss books
Tapper then received backlash at his supposedly supportive position of banning books.
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Tapper then received backlash at his supposedly supportive position of banning books.
CNN's Jake Tapper took to Twitter on Saturday to voice his support for censoring Dr. Seuss books. In a retweet towards Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy, Tapper said "one of the weirdest parts of this culture war is that the self-styled 'warriors' aren’t willing to stand by the empirically racist images they’re supposedly defending."
This was in criticism of McCarthy posting a video of himself proudly reading Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham. Tapper then posted images from one of the banned books and said, "here are two of the empirically racist images from two of those books. Ask yourself why the self-styled culture warriors 'standing up' for Dr. Seuss don’t show these offensive images or read from the actual books in question when they’re on this crusade."
The CNN anchor concluded by saying, "I would submit that they can’t defend the images because they’re indefensible. I would suggest that they don’t show them to you on the floor of the House or in their little videos because they don’t want to be associated with those racist images either."
Tapper then received backlash at his supposedly supportive position of banning books. Author and Mathematician James Lyndsey said, "You seem not to know what 'empirically' means," in a reply. Others point to the dangerous precedent of outright banning books.
This is a dumb take. We stand for freedom of expression, which includes things of which we disapprove and keeping works available as they were made in their time. https://t.co/UqI2PU8Z8g
— Andrew Klavan (@andrewklavan)
Liberals like @jaketapper support book banning.
It's cute how they think they are the good guys.
It's cuter how they think their pathetic status is sustainable.
You owe them nothing.
Except contempt. https://t.co/lFuHryRKpN
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter)
Tapper said it was a childhood dream to write for MAD magazine in 2017. He bought his first issue of MAD when he was 7.
How much stuff in MAD is problematic by modern standards? Like Seuss, should eBay and ecommerce sites forbid the sale of used copies of it? Why or why not? https://t.co/WREUiegvOS
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator)
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