Is there anything wholesome and good that leftist academics don’t hate? Especially when it comes to children’s literature.
These are, mind you, the same people who promote reading material for schools that’s so grossly sexual that a school board cut off a mother’s microphone when she began reading it. It was too obscene for a public meeting, they objected — yet, as the mother pointed out, it was the very book the school board expected her young daughter to read out in class.
But heaven help anyone who reads their children a fun, wholesome book about a rambunctious little dog.
Beloved New Zealand author Dame Lynley Dodd has hit back at accusations her work is outdated and lacks diversity.
My kids loved Dodd’s books, from My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes to Hairy Maclary. Little did they know they were being brainwashed with misogyny… and probably racism, colonialism, and God knows what else.
A study from Perth in Western Australia has taken aim at several children’s books including Hairy Maclary, suggesting they “perpetuate outdated stereotypes”.
The study by senior childhood researcher Dr Helen Adam of Edith Cowan University looked at several books including The Very Hungry Caterpillar and We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.
Let me guess: The Very Hungry Caterpillar is “fat-phobic”? Or does it just not have enough female penises and drag queens?
It’s not the first time the inquisitorial left have come for a beloved New Zealand children’s author. Three years ago, it was Wonky Donky author Craig Smith, for the heinous sin of singing a song about his beloved golliwog.
“What stereotypes are they talking about?” she asked to which RNZ host b responded, “male and female”.
“Oh for goodness sake,” Dodd told RNZ. “I have actually got a female.. I’m just looking at the pile of books I’ve got on the table at the moment… I’ve got Susie Fogg and also one has to remember that lady dogs have certain times when they’re not supposed to be out gallivanting anyway,” she added.
“Isn’t it crazy, people are just too politically correct,” Dodd said.
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So, we can add Hairy Maclary to a list of other denounced children’s books and tv, including Paw Patrol, Bluey, The Mr Men, The Giving Tree, Where the Wild Things Are, and many, many more.
Remember when the left spent months, last year, hyperventilating that a “right-wing” school had supposedly banned Maus? Maus and Mendacity”>It was a lie of course: the school merely moved the book to what they judged was a more age-appropriate reading level.
But the lie was even bigger than that.
Because, for all the self-righteous thunder about the “right” banning books, the most assiduous book-banners are the left.
Leftist censors have banned classics like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Of Mice and Men, and unpersoned authors such as Laura Ingles Wilder, J. K. Rowling and H. P. Lovecraft. Perhaps the most disturbing ban has been the complete memory-holing of six of Dr. Seuss’ books: under pressure from leftist activists, the books were not just removed from libraries but pulled from print completely.
They might as well have burned them and had done with it.
Better hide your copies of Hairy Maclary and Slinky Malinki before they round them up for the pyre.