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My Monday Fun Fact-Check: Cancel-Culture Edition

My Monday Fun Fact-Check: Cancel-Culture Edition (I wrote it yesterday...)
1) "Liberals have canceled Mr. Potato Head!"
False. The toy's manufacturer - Hasbro - has simply dropped the "Mr." from its brand name. The brand is now Potato Head, with Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head still available for purchase. If Mr. and Mrs. Wackywally were married, of what sense would it make to refer to them as just Mr. Wackywally? Wouldn't this imply the hunk Wackywally was single? Is it thereby cancel-culture to refer to the couple as the Wackywallys? No. Next...
 
2) "Joe Biden is trying to cancel Dr. Seuss!"
False. Dr. Seuss Enterprises actually decided to stop the publication of six Dr. Seuss books last year, due to racist imagery, when Donald Trump was still "president." These books are: "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," "If I Ran the Zoo," "McElligot's Pool," "On Beyond Zebra!," "Scrambled Eggs Super!," and "The Cat's Quizzer." Dr. Seuss has written an estimated 60 children's books, which means 54 are still available for purchase, or 90% of them. The last time a person contended that 90% was 0% was the time a math teacher got suspended for laughing in a student's face, and then falsely claimed he/she had consumed nitrous oxide for breakfast. Next...
 
3) "Pepe Le Pew contributed to the normalization of rape culture."
False. The character Pepe Le Pew was written as a satirization of French actor Charles Boyer. He was the butt of the jokes, and the female characters always outsmarted him in the end. Ask any individual imprisoned for a sexual impropriety what the reason was for his/her crime, and I can guarantee you they won't say, "Because of a satirical animated skunk from 75 years ago."

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