'Captain Underpants' book pulled for 'passive racism' -

[Nguyen Van Phuoc]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/captain-underpants-book-pulled-for-passive-racism/ar-BB1f59kA (archive)
NEW YORK (AP) — A graphic novel for children from the wildly popular “Captain Underpants” series is being pulled from library and book store shelves after its publisher said it “perpetuates passive racism.”

 

[albert chan]

The book under scrutiny is 2010's “The Adventures of Ook and Gluk” by Dav Pilkey, who has apologized, saying it “contains harmful racial stereotypes" and is “wrong and harmful to my Asian readers.”

The book follows about a pair of friends who travel from 500,001 B.C. to 2222, where they meet a martial arts instructor who teaches them kung fu and they learn principles found in Chinese philosophy.

Removing books for the sake of appeasing foreigners that never would read these types of books will not solve anything.

- said by a person that used to read a lot of Captain Underpants books when I was much younger

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Truly the worst timeline.

 

[No Exit]

It just sounds like the author is terrified of getting canceled and just pointed out something in his book involving Asians and called it bad so no one could misconstrue and cancel him over it.

 

[Wingnut]

Could you even imagine living like these people do? Their lives have no purpose or meaning so they dedicate it to making everyone else as miserable as they are by trying to ruin everything around them by seeing bigotry in every little thing.

What a sad existence.

 

[Poop A Loop]

 

[TheRetardKing]

What... da FUCK?

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

Removing books for the sake of appeasing foreigners that never would read these types of books will not solve anything.

- said by a person that used to read a lot of Captain Underpants books when I was much younger

>implying this isn't a "my culture is not your prom dress" situation.

 

[The Great Citracett]

So that virtue signaling he did by making the white kid in those books gay still wasn't enough to save his ass from the cancel mob...

Who would've thought?

 

[albert chan]

>implying this isn't a "my culture is not your prom dress" situation.

Spoiler

”Cultural appropriation” is only used as an excuse when the person using someone else’s culture looks better than the other person.

 

[Autumnal Equinox]

These are the same people who look at an orc and their first thought is “yep, that’s a black guy alright!”

and leftists love to say how totally not racist they are. It’s adorable

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

I am now officially mad at the Internet.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Moral guardians of the 2000's probably wish they tried the racism angle.

 

[Sped Xing]

Nobody should be mad about this. The author apologized.

Cucks are a bad influence on children.

 

[Frank D'arbo]

China please nuke us already

 

[Kari Kamiya]

A friendly reminder that a Chinese author practically got canceled by the Twitter mob literally two years ago for writing a scene in her book where a slave died at a slave auction. Asian hate, am I right?

This spin-off book series has been out for a decade, and no one, not even Asians themselves, gave so much as two shits about it until some mentally ill fuck decided to shoot up a workplace that had Asians in it, and now suddenly Asian Lives Matter. Scholastic is run by woketards anyway, but Jesus Christ the self-cancellation is ridiculous.

 

[nigger of the north]

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Spoiler

”Cultural appropriation” is only used as an excuse when the person using someone else’s culture looks better than the other person.

Oh man, I remember this. Back in the day I posted a rant about it in response to a British-born Chinese (female) classmate, who went hell to leather on the idea that it was 'cultural appropriation.'

I pointed out that Asian businessmen for at least a century have been wearing suits and ties - ostensibly western, and more particularly, English formal attire - and nobody dares to point out this glaring, vast appropriation of culture on behalf of the Asian population.

Her response? 'That's different.'

It always is.

 

[High Tea]

My how things have changed. Captain Underpants is one of the most censored books in schools because evangelicals hate the nudity and humor in it. It's always on the banned book list and people vociferously advocate for them not being censored. At the same time, the publisher preemptively bans other books the author wrote for perceived racism, when the simple truth is that kids think ninjas are cool. If you put a ninja in a kids book, it's going to sell.

If religious people hate it, fight it tooth and nail. If the woke mob hate it, get rid of it quick before anyone cancels us and at the same time self flagellate and confess sin to the cultural priests.

 

[KaibaCorp ToeSucker]

Why the fuck is it always shit I like coming under fire? I just want one fucking thing that isn't touched by these retards.

I think I still have most of my books from when I was a kid but I think a few of them got water damaged. I'm pretty sure my copy of Ook and Gluk is in my parent's storage bin I don't think I rented it from the library. Question is where the fuck is it. At least I still possibly have one before the scalpers come and start going RARE BOOK! $$$$ BANNED FOR~ On ebay or some shit.

 

[Banditotron]

I dont understand what the controversial part is. I'm not kidding. I do not understand what part is supposedly racist.