How many people were in this "mob" because it would be awfully convenient if you could declare even a few extreme vocal voices a 'mob'. I expect an online mob to be what tens of thousands or a hundred k?
The online mob demanding the cancel of Dr. Seuss was well beyond a few hundred thousand. It is an interesting case because the leaders of this Cancel Seuss effort gave interviews on how they raised the mob and pressured the publisher to cancel his books and libraries & schools to take them off the shelves — and they are not done yet. They even wrote multiple papers criticizing Dr. Seuss books. Look up Katie Ishizuka, Ramon Stephens, and Philip Nel on Google — and see the take of their academic work which they proudly fostered into a movement to cancel Dr. Seuss — and also had the NEA join them as well urging the removal of all Dr. Seuss books from school reading material.
A few hundred thousand or a half dozen. Everyone likes Dr Seuss really, his commentary on the US falling into the swamp of Nazi sympathy due to Lindbergh and the America firsters still standing the test of time. He was not perfect, he changed his mind when he saw he was wrong though. The far right have a much bigger problem with Seuss for their plans.
Don't ever take what GWB says at face value, the "cancel Dr. Seuss" was my bait, he toes the fox news line on anything non-vax: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/na...0210302-7piolxczljgpve6iwxi32v3uyu-story.html But before the folks at Fox in Socks, er, Fox News, hop on top of this story as a green-eggs-and ham-handed example of cancel-culture craziness, it should be noted the decision comes from Seuss’ camp itself. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the organization that carries on the author and illustrator’s legacy, announced Tuesday that it will stop publishing and licensing “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” “If I Ran the Zoo,” “McElligot’s Pool,” “The Cat’s Quizzer,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!” and “On Beyond Zebra!” “These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” the organization said in a statement, adding that the decision was made last year with a panel of experts, including teachers.
Yes I remember it was his own publisher pulled a few books. He was quite anti-Japanese American during the war and I expect some have issues with this but I recall reading Horton hears a who was written after the war and was an apology. You won't get anyone but a few extremists/ narrow viewpoints arguing Seuss was not an overwhelming power for good. I know my kid had most of his books and I've never seen the no longer published ones so these I suspect will not have been printed in any number for quite a while.
You can call them a mob, but they are citizens exercising THEIR rights. Dr. Seuss could change their position, or hunker down like Goya did. It is/was THEIR right, either way. @gwb-trading never has provided any evidence that "the mob" attacked the Publisher's employees, but if they did, that's an issue for law enforcement, and has nothing to do with free speech nor the free markets nor boycotting. According to the clowns, anything trying to bring about CHANGE, is "cancel culture." The Civil Rights movement, cancel culture. The Women's movement, cancel culture. The Gay/Lesbian movement, cancel culture. The teaching of racism, cancel culture. Guess which culture is supposedly being "canceled" in all of these examples? Stop listening to FoxNews far Right bullshit. https://fortune.com/2020/07/18/goya-boycott-trump-cancel-culture/