Welp, fwiw I treasured a trove of Dr Seuss books since before I could read, and I turned out to be completely not-racist. Plus, most of the characters are imaginary whimsical characters that are green, blue, polkadotted, striped, etc. We should be hearing soon from their advocacy groups I guess.

This kind of thing happened to Winsor McKay's historical work in the 90s over the "black sambo" character in his Little Nemo series. Okay, yes, it's an uncomfortable stereotype that was completely normalized in McKay's day. But what bugged me most about this sudden rejection of one of the world's most talented cartoonists was that despite the visual stereotype, the character was very wise and always had the solution to the problem at hand.

IMO it's just as harmful to adopt a so-called "positive" extreme as it is to adopt a "negative" one. Recognizing the nuance and complexity of the human experience, being open, and remaining committed to responsiveness rather than reactivity, is a much better strategy than banning, censoring, bullying and regulating everyone into the current version of "correctness."