When I was growing up in Lebanon I and everyone I knew read the Adventures of Tintin, the Belgian comic book about a 16-year-old reporter who travels the world with his dog Milou (terribly translated as “Snowy”), never files a single story, never so much as flirts with either sex, let alone with sex–he’s as androgynous as his expressions–but manages all sorts of fabulous exploits.
Tintin was Jules Verne in comic strips, taking us to America, to the moon, to the world of the Incas, to Tibet or to Africa. Like Jules Verne, the books could also be astoundingly blind to their own racism. Hergé, was drawing for a conservative, Catholic newspaper when he wrote “Tintin in the Congo” in 1931. The newspaper had commissioned him first to write a satire of the Soviet Union for children, which he did. His new production seemed aimed at showing off Belgian colonialism in the Congo to good little Sunday-school Belgians, what we now know to be one of the most brutal and genocidal examples of European exploitation of Africans.
The resulting book was not much different. Every page is a stereotype. Blacks are dim-witted, big-lipped, subservient. Whites, Tintin and his very white dog among them, are the saviors. There’s no subtlety here. The priest with a white beard is good to the core–Belgium was very, very proud of raping the Congo while bringing its Ave Marias to the natives–the criminal who disguises himself as a priest has a black beard.
Like many of Jules Verne’s books, Tintin in the Congo is also a hymn to animal cruelty. The hunter Dick Kennedy in Verne’s Five Weeks in a Balloon, Verne’s breakaway hit, must be the first character in literature to anticipate Sara Palin’s affection for massacring animals from the air as he fires a shot at a hippo from his balloon basket just for the hell of it. When the bullet has no effect, the servant Joe says in all naturalness, “we should’ve harpooned him.” In one scene in Congo Tintin obliterates a herd of antelope. In another he kills a monkey and skins it because he needed its hide to disguise himself. He does the same with a giraffe, so he can get a better close-up of other giraffes for his “documentary.” Crocodiles, lions, serpents, elephants (of course Tinton scavenges the ivory tusks), leopards are all attacked in a fireworks-like crescendo of violence. It culminates with Tintin drilling a hole in the back of a rhinoceros, placing a stick of dynamite in there, and blowing up the poor creature. A frame shows the creature’s remains. Tintin is disappointed: he has nothing on film.
Blacks are not treated more kindly. But they love their Christ-like savior. The last frame of the book is of a village of natives literally bowing at the foot of totems of Tintin and Milou and speaking of him as a god. Kurtz for kids. “To think that in Europe, all the little Whites are like Tintin,” says one bereft man to another outside a café. (Oh, yes, in Hergé’s style book, “White” was capitalized.) Praise be the white colonialist.
Yet I must’ve read that book a thousand times. The French writer Marguerite Duras was right: “All children of the civilized world have a Tintin culture before having their own.” And what a shame that it was, regarding certain books. It’s probably why it was so easy for me, in my early teens, not to question my elders’ dehumanization of Muslims and Palestinians in those early years of the civil war. We may have had an excuse to despise them. They were trying to obliterate us (us good little white Christians). They’d chased us out of our home. But we’d been dehumanizing them long before the war. Attitudes have consequences.
I still have an early edition of Tintin au Congo, from which the image above was scanned, but I don’t mind the way it’s been scrubbed of its racist and violent content, if too barely so. English and American publishers wouldn’t issue it for decades. Scandinavian publishers forced Hergé to redraw the rhinoceros scene so the dynamite stick never went off and the beast could walk away (though somehow they found other stereotypes less offensive). Don’t get me wrong: the enormous majority of what Hergé drew and wrote was wonderful. Some of it was not. He grew as he aged, and as he moved away from that reactionary broadsheet he worked for. There’s nothing wrong with a little reevaluation now and then, and a recognition that not every line and every frame deserves praise, or reissues.
So I don’t mind it at all that the estate of Dr. Seuss has finally realized that some of the great children’s writer’s earlier books were more like Tintin in the Congo than the sort of culture you’d want your children eating up like green eggs and ham. The estate is pulling six Seuss books from republication. Naturally, the shitshow culture of talk radio and social mierda is losing its mulberries, even though we’re talking about just six out of 60 titles, and six titles that were barely selling anyway, because readers, who know best, had become uncomfortable with the insensitivity of those pages.
One of those was what became Theodor Geisel-Seuss’s first production, “And To Think that I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” a story too metaphorically themed around eyelids: the eyelids white little Marco’s father tells him to keep up and “see what you can see.” The story turns into a wonderful celebration of the imagination, until the appearance of a Chinese man and his stereotypically slanted eyelids. You might not consider that dehumanizing. Even if it isn’t, it’s a stereotype, and stereotypes are indistinguishable from the demeaning. To reimagine Marco’s fantasy with wizened eyes, I could see children reading that book their thousand times starting in 1937, when the book was first published, and going on never to question their elders, just as I did not in 1975, when 1942 rolled around and 120,000 Japanese-Americans, most of them citizens, many of them readers of Dr. Seuss no doubt, were imprisoned in concentration camps in one of this nation’s mass-endorsed hysterias of systematic, unjustified and inexcusable racism.
If the Seuss estate has now finally decided to pull that book not from circulation, mind you, not from libraries, not from wide availability, but merely from reprints, then big fracking deal. What next: faulting writers for routinely choosing not to include some of their lesser works in complete editions?
This isn’t about cancel culture. That pair of terms has become its own dogmatic dumbbell anyway. It’s thrown at anything and everything that appears to wound the sensibilities of reactionaries who still like their bigotry enshrined in their nostalgia for the good old days when whites dominated and defined culture.
Sure the leveling can be excessive. Not everything about critical race theory is worth embracing. But a lot of it is. Unlike Marco’s parade of animals, microaggressions and white privilege aren’t imaginary nothings. Like all academic theories, critical race theory is highly debatable, it’s being debated, and we’re the better for it. That kind of leveling is overdue. The Dr. Seuss controversy is bogus, or at least reflective of the very blindness to multicultural sensitivity that the Declaration of Independence imagined even when it was a whites-only, men-only document.
There’s no need to condemn an artist’s work that was of its time, let alone condemn the artist’s oeuvre just because it contains a few false notes: Shakespeare and Voltaire could be anti-Semitic. John Locke, the Enlightenment’s patron saint of tolerance, owned stock in slave-trading companies and was an apologist for the repression of Catholics and atheists. Every European romantic intellectual of the 19th century was an orientalist fool. Twain and Flannery O’Connor were bigoted against Blacks and foreigners, and O’Connor didn’t see much redemption for anyone not Catholic. Henry James was an unbearable classist and father to a long line of American misogynists from Hemingway to Saul Bellow to John Updike. None of that eliminates these writers’ place in the cultural pantheon even if in some cases it might diminish them. The challenge is ours to reread and rethink. Every day in art is a day of judgment, every reader a judge. It’s how we reinterpret, how we grow.
Our misplaced nostalgia for books we were so fond of isn’t more important than the golden rule of looking out for our neighbors, to whom the same nostalgia translates as insult or put-down. There was nothing excessive in Maya Angelou’s embrace of the word “humankind” at the 1993 presidential inauguration, a word that even then was derided as politically correct, but that spoke of a culture finally discovering a humanism it had too often posited in hymns to itself and pledges to inert flags but not realized among its fellow citizens of flesh and blood. Remember those Angelou lines “On the Pulse of Morning”?
So say the Asian, the Hispanic, the Jew
The African, the Native American, the Sioux,
The Catholic, the Muslim, the French, the Greek
The Irish, the Rabbi, the Priest, the Sheik,
The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher,
The privileged, the homeless, the Teacher.
They hear. They all hear
The speaking of the Tree.
They hear the first and last of every Tree
Speak to humankind today.
You can hear Leaves of Grass rustling again in those lines, photosynthesized into an America more becoming of its ideal. How wonderful it would have been that Dr. Seuss’s parade on Mulberry Street had featured those verses come to life, without the stereotypes. No doubt I’m describing a children’s writer’s work who’s done just that since. It’s not a sin to edit culture. It doesn’t erase history. It corrects the stories to come, usually in such modest ways, honoring the culture more than defacing it, as stereotypes so viciously do.
You might recall that the Oompa Loompas of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” weren’t always Oompa Loompas. They were once offensively stereotypical Black pygmies, until the NAACP complained and author Roald Dahl realized his error. No one would trade those Oompa Loompas for anything today. Just the same, Dr. Seuss will survive this long-overdue editing of his legacy, for the better. And so will you.
Pierre Tristam is FlaglerLive’s editor. Reach him by email here. A version of this piece aired on WNZF. (Et merci Yannick.)
Richard Seymour says
Total liberal BS..wouldn’t expect anything different from this rag publication
Skibum says
Yet here you are, because you LOVE to come to this “liberal rag” website to read the news of the day. It is obviously so more more informative and accurate than that fake newsmedia infotainment conglomerate that the loser former president got all of his talking points from.
Scott says
Agree. The author reveals his extremism early on “to anticipate Sara Palin’s affection for massacring animals”. The hardcore never deviate from the Soros talking points. Ever. Blindly obedient.
Dennis says
Get a life and stop with the racist crap. History is to learn from, so you never repeat the same errors.
Billy C. says
…and yet we live in a country full of denialists who refuse to learn anything other than the desire to continue ignoring the past, honoring the symbols of oppression and refusing any attempt to get you to open your eyes.
I’m says
Wrong Pierre. This is cancel culture in the purest form. Picking apart a decreased author who lived in a wildly different time and can’t defend/explain himself. Of course, Tin Tin is a horribly racist book. Who could argue that? However, you seemed to have put that book on blast instead in your article because you know that people might be dumb enough to couple that horrible book with your very slight mention of the 6 Dr. Seuss books into thinking that those 6 books are in some way just as evil. You’re comparing apples to oranges. The 6 canceled Dr. Seuss books are not overtly racist like you’re trying to ensue. Undertones of insensitivity? Maybe. Unlike his 6 targeted books, Dr. Seuss did draw very insensitive and overtly racist cartoons during his career and has apologized for them and knows how damaging they were. Instead of canceling and dragging this DEAD author through the mud, why not use those “inappropriate” pages as a teachable moment? It’s called honesty and conversation. We don’t have to run from and cower from everything in our past. We can learn from those moments and talk about them. Tin Tin, yes get that crap off the shelves but Dr. Seuss? I just feel like we are picking every little thing apart these days. If we continue in this direction, some day your articles will be racist or insensitive somehow even though you had the purest of intentions. Write wisely!
Pierre Tristam says
Once again, no one is raiding libraries or banning Zoos, Mulberries, Zebras or Elligots. The books happened to still be in print. The estate decided to quit reprinting them. Existing editions by the tens of thousands will continue to be available, and far more than, say, Melville’s “Redburn” or most of Thornton Wilder or James MacGregor Burns’s wonderful three-volume history of the United States, which has inexplicably gone out of print though it won the Pulitzer and other awards (sure it’s available on Kindle, but some of us like our histories hardbound). Did Knopf “cancel” Burns? Did his estate? Obviously not. Like 99.99 percent of titles, the publisher decided to quit reprinting. (“But then,” as Hawthorne reminds us in “Scarlet,” “what reams of other manuscripts–filled, not with the dullness of official formalities, but with the thought of inventive brains and the rich effusion of deep hearts–had gone equally to oblivion.”) So it is with these Seuss misfires. The comparison with Tintin I thought was quite apt. Hergé too wrote fantastic books, most of Tintin is still as good as it gets, like Seuss, with very rare exceptions (Congo and the one where Tintin rubs noses with Arabs, as another example, though stereotyping Arabs is still one of the more rabid western traditions). So both Seuss and Hergé had their false notes. Who doesn’t? That’s just the point. They’re not being dragged through the mud. Their body of work is being very lightly repositioned and no differently than when–to take one example of one of the last century’s foremost short story writers–V.S. Pritchett, like most writers with an ounce of self-awareness, decided not to include his early stories in his 1,200-page “Complete Collected Stories” in 1990 because he realized they were dull and overwritten (surely he could do better, and did, than “the alcoholic mist which hung over him like cloud over a mountain”). The Seuss books will remain “teachable,” though there are certainly more interesting ways to teach kids about insensitivity, starting with not subjecting them to insensitive stereotypes if we can help it, otherwise you could argue that a high school production featuring students in blackface could, well, be a teachable moment. No. We’re past excusing rank bigotry that way and masking every scrap of retro racism as salvageably “teachable.” I also have no doubt that the majority of my columns–boorish, pedantic to the core, humorless, ridiculously florid and three times as long as they need to be: see above–also have their share of insensitivity (Bible-thumping reactionaries and neo-Confederate Republicans–you know, the Reagan generation and since–are treated with routine insensitivity). Fortunately, and unlike the Seuss estate, I don’t have to worry about pulling them out of circulation since no one, with errant and unfortunate exceptions such as yourself (apologies, anyway), reads them.
I’m says
I am willing to say that I get what you’re saying. Sometimes you might to be more explicit and you were in the comment. This year as been tough for everyone and I just want to see this country come together more quickly. Of course you can’t ignore the past and you have to address things, that goes without saying. Just every time we turn the corner, there’s something else. Hopefully as we address these issues head on and come together and the future will be brighter!
Palm Coast Citizen says
“Naturally, the shitshow culture of talk radio and social mierda is losing its mulberries, even though we’re talking about just six out of 60 titles, and six titles that were barely selling anyway, because readers, who know best, had become uncomfortable with the insensitivity of those pages.”
“Social mierda,” shall be a phrase etched into history this week.
This is a great piece. Thank you!
Sister Alais says
Well it looks like those tribes people I saw last year in the Congo while doing mercenary work. I don’t see the problem.
William says
Funny, Sister. Doesn’t look like any that I saw…many you were looking at them through eyes far more jaded than you might think.
Reader says
Thanks for this wonderful column….thoughtful, interesting and enlightening.
Agkistrodon says
Let’s ban all books……they all offend someone.
Bill C says
Agkistrodon is the genus of poisonous snakes. Since you identify yourself with them, it says a lot about who you are. Come out from under your defensive rock and stop striking out with only venomous comments like a mindless reptile. For once, try making a considered argument.
Rin Tin Tin says
You bring up the dog as being white? OMG You are such a warped and creepy individual.
mark101 says
This has turned into the land of the Offended, where anyone can claim, oh this offends me. Whats next the GOVT telling us what we can read, where we can go. People need to grow some thicker skin, history is history and written literature is just that. In this day and age of the politically-correct, easily-offended and hypersensitive culture. You could be offended by any kind of book at the library if you’re someone who’s looking to go in and be offended by something. What’s next the Bible ?
Pogo says
@Pierre Tristam
This excellent column, IMO, is deserving of widespread publication and attention. I doubt the matter will be better stated by anyone. Thank you.
Regarding the Congo – sadly, the human heart of darkness (as personified by our local trolls) is alive and as malign as ever.
History? History indeed:
https://www.google.com/search?d&q=King+Leopold+II+of+Belgium
LB2KOOL says
Wonderful article.
But in Palm Coast Floriduh, pearls before swine.
Agkistrodon says
Most of the people in Florida come from other states, yet you blame Florida. Maybe it is other states education systems that produce idiots. I have lived all over the USA and the world and there are unintelligent people all over. If the fine people of Florida make you so unhappy, migrate.
Sherry says
Excellent article Pierre! The Golden Rule is precisely what we need to be teaching and using as a guiding principle in our lives.
To those who continuously post comments as FOX mindless agents. . . AGAIN, and AGAIN and AGAIN. . . . please do us all a favor and expand your manipulated minds into something besides repeating FOX propaganda/disinformation talking points. The estate decided not to “reprint” 10% of the Dr. Seuss books. Please STOP with the complete Right Winged media driven “HYSTERIA” saying books are being banned. . . they are NOT! Can we please, please, please discuss credible FACTUAL news in context and with reasonable perspective?
Thanks! Stay safe and healthy!
William Moya says
Pierre, here is one of my favorites, Asterix, which also had an African, a slave, they had liberated (can’t remember his name) and though he had joined a holiday camp and looked at everything through the lens of a tourist, it was hilarious, but nonetheless racist.
deb says
“History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It’s not yours to erase. It belongs to all of us. ” Not sure where I saw this, but its true.
And its interesting how our First Lady Michelle Obama could read Dr Seuss, and the “people” were ok with that, but now they aren’t. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2367662/Video-Michelle-Obama-reads-Dr-Seuss-book-children-2015.html
Pierre Tristam says
A postscript: a few weeks ago I finally read V.S. Naipaul’s Enigma of Arrival after two previous failed attempts in 34 years. It was a bit of a slog, Naipaul knowing so well how to write about nothing, but this poignant passage toward the end is relevant to the discussion above, and an experience I very sadly share in some ways, his Trinidad having been my Beirut: “Thinking back to my own past, my own childhood–the only way we have of understanding another man’s condition is through ourselves, our experiences and emotions–I found so many abuses I took for granted. I lived easily with the idea of poverty, the nakedness of children in the streets of the town and the roads of the country. I lived easily with the idea of the brutalizing of children by flogging; the ridiculing of the deformed; the different ideas of authority presented by our Hindu family and then, above that, by the racial-colonial system of our agricultural colony.” Sometimes we live too easily with the demeaning and the insensitive, especially when it’s distorted by childhood wistfulness.
Michael Cocchiola says
Cancel culture is not a real thing… except to ultra-conservatives who are quick to label progressives as communists, Blacks as thugs, Jews as globalists, Muslims as terrorists, atheists as godless baby killers, Biden as demented, and Kamala as a man. Oh, and the confederate battle flag, statues of confederate generals, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Dr. Seuss, Jules Verne, and now Rush Limbaugh as historically relevant.
You cannot have a rational discussion with hard-line conservatives because there is no reality-based starting point for them. Wait… I just canceled them!
Down south says
You forgot to mention George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Paul Revere, James Lowell and countless others including Mr. Potato head are all bieng cancelled by the likes of progressives. Please stop trying to censor what others can read, watch or listen to. If you don’t like it change the damn channel but leave me alone with my choice.
Down south says
Oops I forgot about the cancelling of Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima, Dianne Feinstein and every damned monument in downtown Richmond VA.
The cancel culture is very real and loud
Pierre Tristam says
Next thing you know we’ll be canceling Jim Crow. The nerve! The infamy! Quick, cue up the Q’s!
Down south says
I’ve never had the pleasure to meet Jim. It is apparent that you have met them all. Once again let me watch, read it listen to what I want. Call me a racist but I just want to live my life.
Concerned Citizen says
Food For Thought:
Some of the same people crying over how everything is offensive these days grew up on Family Guy and South Park. We raised a whole generation on shows like that. And now you can’t drop a needed F Bomb or tell a dirty joke without getting sued.
Deb says
Hell Rap music is offensive, so how can I cancel that. It’s way more offense than these Doctors books and the young kids listen to it and watch it on tv. You can’t have one way.
Don’t worry the offended police will be going after Mr Coffee next
Richard says
Deb, right on lady! I totally agree. There is so much in this world that offends me right now but by far the worst is all of the left wing liberals who want to control the rest of the country, each and every life. The only way they will even attempt to control me is to come through the front door of my house and that will get them dead in Florida with stand your ground law.
Al says
Part of the issue which has not been addressed is; we are applying current knowledge, values and beliefs on past history, writings and culture. A THAT point in time those beliefs may have been commonplace and acceptable – standards change over time through knowledge, communication and conversation.
What I have a bit of a problem with is making believe anything that we either don’t agree with or find inconsiderate or offensive from the past – we can just eliminate. You can not change history, only learn from it.
Keep in mind, there are probably laws, movies, books etc that are current today which future generations will find offensive.
Sherry says
Excellent comment, Al! You are right on. . . it’s known as evolution of a society/culture/humanity. And, it’s a GOOD thing!
Bill C says
Excellent writing and scholarship. Pierre, you deserve a Pulitzer. Hard to believe how ignorant some of the comments are that criticize you.
Jane Gentile-Youd says
Thank you Pierre for reminding me that many beliefs and book contents I thought were just natural and humane when I was growing up certainly were not.
Ali Baba says
Hey Pierre , what’s next the BIBLE ? Or perhaps the Koran ? What’s your choice ?
Pierre Tristam says
Genesis? Deuteronomy? the Book of Judges? Samuel, that apologist of rape? Paul’s letters, which could have been dedicated to Harvey Weinstein? Really? Any one of them makes Pulp Fiction look like the Cat in the Hat. (Stephen Pinker in The Better Angels of Our Nature has a good summary of the Bible’s “one long celebration of violence” on pages 5-11.) A bit less Bible and Koran–those post-Cambrian explosions of violence, sexism, chauvinism, bigotry, homophobia, absurdity and sadism–and a lot more Whitman and Voltaire, or even Seuss, would go a long way repairing the genocidal damages those two books have inflicted and continue to inflict on the world, though I wouldn’t shortchange the sublime literary qualities of either books.
Kim says
I was unaware that ‘If I Ran the Zoo” and ‘To Think…’ were not selling well before the recent brouhaha.
When I read about the issue of racism in the books, I was puzzled. I didn’t remember any. Then I found specific references to the Chinese man. I looked at it and still didn’t see the racism. Finally, I read a comment that said he had slit and slant eyes. Well, maybe he does, but for me, they are just eyes that are closed up because of his smile. As for the hat, it is still worn a lot in Southeast Asia. I guess it was at one time (such as when the book was written and illustrated) also common in China. (None of the many articles and commentaries I have read seems to comment on the distinctive shoes.)
Mr. Tristam says that stereotypes are ipso facto derogatory. I don’t see why. I agree that is exchanges stereotypes cover up nuances, but they also convey information — and, at times, humor. How is a Chinese person to be presented without some sort of generalizing? Let’s accept that my view of the eye presentation is wrong, and the illustration is representing a ‘slit eye.’ The reality is that a high percentage of East Asians have epicanthic folds. To show a Chinese man without them would be a statistical misrepresentation. If you are only showing one individual from a given group, I think – unless you are making a special point – it is reasonable to show the norm. But, you may counter, the image is exaggerated. Yes, it might be (as I indicated, not enough for me to ‘see’ it). but that’s what cartoons are about.
But if the publisher wants to stop publishing these books, that’s their perfect right. As is pointed out, the books are not being banned or burned.
Ramone says
So we’re now at the point, in our woke/evolved society, that it’s inappropriate to distinguish different ethnicities by obvious, readily apparent, human features. If it’s suddenly verboten to mention a asian man’s eye characteristics, what’s next? We have to ignore the Irishman’s red hair? Act like the European doesn’t have olive skin? This is silly. We’re all distinguishable in some way. We should recognize and appreciate our differences. We’re all human beings. No one is better than the other. We can’t go back and rewrite history. We can strive to do better loving one another and appreciating that which makes us all different. Contrary to popular belief, no one is truly “white”. You can’t rid the world of racism by being racist. Vilifying “white” people in an attempt to right previous wrongs is a fool’s mission. You’re doing the same thing as the past did and expecting a different result.
William Moya says
Short answer, all of them. Those writings are documents and we should categorized them as historical documents of another age, in that vein they are rich in the knowledge of how our ancestors cope. From an existentialist point of view, they give individuals a way out of taking decision on their own, some divine, all powerful entity, will take care of them. By the way, most governments are complicit in it, it serves them well.
Trebordadda says
Pierre
That was a fantastic article. I’m gonna dig up my TinTin books and re-re-read them with a new perspective.
And I thought the comments were also, for the most part, quite enriching. Great discussion.
Also agree with Bill C. You deserve a lot of recognition.
capt says
People can tear down statues, burn books, murder people in the name of a movement, remove books from a store and stop production but you cannot remove the memories from a persons mind.
Bill says
A simple answer for this cancel culture BS from the Seuss books are SO “OFFENCIVE” would have been justhaveing a new CARTOON drawn for such offensives.
Sherry says
What’s most pathetic to me is that the “Usual Suspects’ in the FOX/trump cult seem much more concerned by “6” books not being “reprinted” than by the deaths of over 500,000 people in the United States from Covid.
Where is the outrage over the “unnecessary” deaths due to a President that did little more than just “wish” it would somehow “magically” go away? Where is the compassion for those who continue to die each and every day/ Where is the compassion for their families? Speaking of “Cancel Culture”. . . why so little outrage over the unnecessary canceling of peoples’ lives?????
Certainly you are free to obsessively watch any media outlet you desire. . . but, you are most certainly not free to spew fear and hate without rebuttal, as long as Flaglerlive continues to publish my comments, and the comments from other educated, open minded readers.
GR says
@Sherry – Still obsessed with Trump and Fox News. LOL. Where is the outrage over the deaths Governor Cuomo caused and lied about the total deaths in nursing homes.
Inthenameofunity! says
Unessessary canceling of people’s lives like New York gov. cancelled the lives of all those innocent elderly COVID patients. Maybe you can cancel that fact from history.
Sherry says
Excuse me! There is PLENTY of “Outrage” over Cuomo’s corrupt manipulation of Covid data AND his sexual harassment. Those things have been all over all news stations for days! AND. . . plenty of “Democratic” leaders have condemned him!
However, since Cuomo’s actions do not effect Floridians directly, I’m shaking my head over just another FOX/trump “whataboutism”. Just another deflection to keep focus away from the failures of trump, by using the completely FAKE concern over Dr. Seuss’ books. Just look at the asinine antics of Congressional Republicans who seem to have nothing better to do than worship at the alter of Q and trump= the completely failed, corrupt and insane conspiracy party.
Inthenameofunity says
Wow Sherry, not the message of unity our knucklehead and chief spoke about during his inauguration speech.
Your last sentence just shows you have not yet recovered from TDS. Give it time, the next potus will be from the GOP and your fight can live on and your hate can continue to make sense to you.