Dr. SEUSS

CBS News reports that "Six Dr. Seuss books — including 'And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street' and 'If I Ran the Zoo' — will stop being published because of insensitive imagery," the business that preserves and protects the author's legacy said. "These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong," Dr. Seuss Enterprises Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement that coincided with the late author's and illustrator's birthday.

The other books affected are "McElligot's Pool," "On Beyond Zebra!," "Scrambled Eggs Super!," and "The Cat's Quizzer." This move has been in the works since last year as "Dr. Seuss Enterprises listened and took feedback from our audiences including teachers, academics and specialists in the field as part of our review process. We then worked with a panel of experts, including educators, to review our catalog of titles," it said.

eBay has jumped into the mix by preventing the resale of the six Dr. Seuss books discontinued this week by the late author’s publisher.

“At eBay, we have a strict policy against hate and discrimination to ensure our platform remains a safe, trusted and inclusive environment for our global community of buyers and sellers," spokeswoman Parmita Choudhury told the Washington Examiner’s Haley Victory Smith.

 But then there's a best-selling book in which evil lives. When that book went on sale after 70 years of lurking in its deserved pit of darkness, it sold 85,000 copies in one country alone, staying on the best-seller list for 35 consecutive weeks. The book was so evil that at one time 12,000,000 copies had been burned. 

Its evil has been translated into at least 16 languages — including Arabic, Persian, and Turkish. In April 2017, the Japanese government approved its use in their schools, classifying it as "teaching material."

 When it was first published, some literary critics called it "rambling nonsense." Almost every page of that book singles out for hatred and demonization one miniscule group of people that comprise less than 1% of the world's population.

The book with evil between its covers is Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. Its  distribution was ubiquitous in Germany; every couple received a free copy at their marriage ceremony; from 1925 to summer 1945, it sold over 12 million copies and was translated into more than a dozen languages, including a braille edition for blind Germans.

In the book, Hitler wrote that the Jews were bent on destroying the Gentile world and were controlling everything behind the scenes. World Jewry, Hitler claimed, was responsible for every thing he didn't like. He believed and wrote that the Jews were a disease on the body of the human race, sub-human, vermin fit only to be extinguished.

But here's the thing: until eBay comes to its senses, you can't purchase Dr. Seuss. You can buy Mein Kampf.