Comments by "Kevin Street" (@Kevin_Street) on "No Republicans Voted for Biden's $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Bill: A Closer Look" video.

  1. The stimulus bill and vaccinations are the most important events happening in America, of course, but I think the conservatives (not just Republicans but conservative media) outmaneuvered the left on this Dr. Seuss thing, in the sense that they got people on the left arguing with each other about a non issue. I personally don't watch Fox News or look at any right-wing websites. I learned about the Dr. Seuss story from this show and other late night shows like Colbert, and the framing you all gave it was "it's time for some Dr. Seuss books to go away." I and many other people who might be characterized as center-left objected to this because it sounded like you're okay with censorship. Like it's a good thing to prevent kids from learning some books even exist because they contain racist imagery that, like toxic chemicals, might rot out any young minds that are exposed to it. This kind of censorship based on the emotion of disgust has been the bane of literature for centuries, although it usually comes from the right and is concerned with obscenities and religious and sexual imagery rather than racism. But that's precisely why it's so surprising to see the same impulse coming from the left. Or at least that's what I thought because that's the impression you gave. It turns out the whole controversy is just about a publisher deciding not to publish some of its books any longer, which is the kind of decision publishers make every day. If you had framed it that way at the beginning, as Republican politicians trying to tell publishers what to do, then you could have avoided the subsequent argument about censorship. But when you said that cancel culture isn't a thing, or that we shouldn't be concerned about it, you stepped right into their trap.
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