If her school didn't need the books, the appropriate thing for her to have done would be to thank the white house for the gift and find a school within her district that did, or quietly return the gift, but no, she had to score some sweet sweet internet points.

How did this jerk forget she had tweeted her Cat in the Hat photos just two years earlier? Well, the internet didn't forget and she gets her 15 minutes, just not the way she had envisioned.

"When you stare into the internet the internet stares back at you" -- Freddy Netzche

Grinch Lives Matter.

Doesn't matter what she did before - she got her 15 minutes of fame by virtue signaling that she despises Trump.

"Look at me, everybody. I HATE trump and told off his wife! Aren't I special!"

That is all that she, and other Trump haters, care about.

Well, obviously she's a raaaaaaaaacist! Next someone will discover pictures of her attending a klan rally.

Antifa really needs to find her, and punch her in the face, since they assure me that's what racists deserve. And such punching is not only legitimate, but laudable.

As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

Ms. Phipps Soeiro knows Dr. Seuss books aren't racist. There's no indication she ever thought they were.

What she didn't seem to know was that Mrs. Trump herself is an immigrant from a former communist country and didn't need to be lectured on politics by a middle-class young woman. Nor did she seem aware of something called web caches, despite having an advanced degree in library science. (I assume that's where the photos of her in Dr. Seuss costumes came from.) She might be able to learn useful facts like these if her head weren't so full of ideology and ways to one-up people by pretending to be offended.

Seems her selective self righteous arrogance is determined by who is president. Real deep convictions there, sweetie.

Dr Seuss is racist propaganda:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DK6PdYDUIAAd9KH.jpg

Theodor Seuss Geisel has a complicated history with racism. He drew generally racist cartoons in the '20s and '30s. He drew cartoons that were decidedly racist toward Japanese-Americans in the '40s, while decrying the racism that kept blacks out of Northern factories during World War II.

LIke Robert Byrd, Geisel later regretted his earlier actions. I don't think anyone can realistically say Dr. Seuss' books are "steeped in racist propaganda" as he was a fervent progressive later in life.

And, likely as not, had Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton presented the library with The Cat in the Hat and The Lorax, this librarian would have accepted the gift eagerly.

This is not about Theodore Geisel, but Melania Trump. Or, more to the point, her husband.

Politics strictly aside (but of course it's too late for that), while it's always important just to say "thank you" and quietly pass on gifts to those who need them more than you do (the librarian DID mention that other schools were in far greater need of books than hers), the trouble with Seuss books is, they're far too easy to come across.

Chances are, kids in ANY school are already familiar with them for one reason or another. In the meantime, there's no shortage of books that were very popular and deserve the critical acclaim they got, but have been forgotten for one bad reason or another. (Some are out of print, others not.) So I'd say it's important to expose kids to the less-famous books so they'll realize that "unfamiliar" doesn't mean "boring," and that the work of hunting them down can be fun.

The books weren't meant as a charitable donation to re-stock the shelves. They were awarded to schools around the country that had shown academic excellence in honor of Read-a-Book Day, along with a letter encouraging the kids to read. As for the book selections, Mrs. Trump probably wanted something popular and completely inoffensive. I haven't heard anything about the 49 other recipients across the country rejecting them as racist propaganda.

Going by the reactions in various comment sections, it looks like people are getting tired of snotty sanctimony and perpetual, manufactured outrage.

That women like her have contact with and influence on children is why colleges have safe spaces. Indoctrination comes early and often.

Might as well tell this story, from 2000:

A poster called "Art" asked:

"Is there a big book of Dr. Seuss out there anywhere?" (I.e., collections.)

Priscilla H Ballou responded:

"I'm sorry, but my mind started going off on weird stuff when I saw this subject and my eyes misread it slightly.

"You see, the Big Book is the 'Bible' of Alcoholics Anonymous, and suddenly the Big Book as written by Dr. Seuss started looming in my brain.

'I will not take that drink today.
I will not, will not, NO I say!'

"I think I need another cup of tea."

"He drew cartoons that were decidedly racist toward Japanese-Americans in the '40s"

That was fairly common during WWII. I've seen some Warner Bros. cartoons made during the war, that viciously mock stereotypes of Germans and Japanese. I think that's the sort of thing that happens whenever a country is involved in a war.

that viciously mock stereotypes of Germans and Japanese.
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Example, please?

Otherwise, I suspect you meant to say "viciously FLAUNT stereotypes of Germans and Japanese."

Even Disney did just that, after all - in "Der Fuehrer's Face."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn20oXFrxxg