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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 Eg...