Wow. Just wow.

eBay has banned the sale of Dr. Seuss books

A spokeswoman for the website told the Washington Examiner on Thursday that it would no longer be allowing sellers to list six books that have been deemed by Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the company that preserves Theodor Seuss "Ted" Geisel's legacy, as containing racially insensitive imagery.

"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," eBay Corporate Communications Specialist Parmita Choudhury said. "We're currently sweeping our marketplace to remove these items. It can take some time to review all existing listings and provide education to impacted users. We're also monitoring the newly published list to be reviewed."

It’s funny (ha-ha): erasing Plato, Shakespeare, Lincoln, Mark Twain, even Faulkner and Harper Lee, for God’s sake, is a far more harmful attack on western civilization, but this attack on Dr. Seuss may bring home to millions of citizens what’s happening here. Most know Dr. Seuss, while they probably haven’t studied Plato since kindergarten, and the lunacy is more apparent.

UPDATE: You can, however, still buy copies of Mein Kampf. “We did look at that”, an eBay spokesman told FWIW, “and we decided that Herr Hitler would have been really, really against the existence of Israel, so that’s okay.”

It’s the great gaslighting of America: one day the author of beloved children’s books is revered, the next day he’s a horrid racist who must be erased from history and his books banned. In 24-hours! One day, Amazon would “permit” readers to buy books challenging the transgender fad, the next day the book has disappeared, forever. It’s happening with increasing frequency, and the frustrating thing is that the corporations doing this are too big for individual actions to have any effect; I could cancel my Amazon Prime and never order another product from them and their computers wouldn’t even notice.

I don’t know what to do about this, but I really don’t want to see what America looks like in five years.