Anything and everything is now racist. Even the book Captain Underpants is now considered racist, and has been because of it. Captain Underpants’ becomes the latest victim of cancel culture, following Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head (not Brian Stelter). I really hate the twenty first century were everything is now considered racist. Can we go back to the 20th century?
Pilkey, who is also behind the popular “Dog Man” series, also shared a letter apologizing on YouTube, in which he explained that the book was intended to “showcase diversity, equality, and non-violent conflict resolution.”
“But this week it was brought to my attention that this book also contains harmful racial stereotypes and passively racist imagery,” he wrote.
“I wanted to take this opportunity to publicly apologize for this. It was and is wrong and harmful to my Asian readers, friends, and family, and to all Asian people.”
The decision to no longer print the book comes after six Dr. Seuss books were pulled due to racist and insensitive imagery.