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The outrage wasn’t just left to pundits, either. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was in a hearing this morning debating a voting rights bill and totally stayed on topic by decrying how Democrats were trying to “outlaw Dr. Seuss.”

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I would like to take a brief aside to say that I’m just so tired of people acting like the concept of consequences is some new ideal founded by the “woke mob.” Every action results in an opposite reaction. This is high school physics, y’all, I don’t know why I have to explain this to grown-ass adults.

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I don’t even know how the lie of “cancel culture” comes into effect with this situation. There was no “mob” or large-scale outcry over these books. You’re really going to sit here and tell me you were reading McElligot’s Pool over Green Eggs and Ham? No one was even thinking about these books until the company made the decision to remove them from circulation.

In fact, had they not released a statement and just quietly removed the books from shelves, I guarantee you conservatives wouldn’t have noticed. Nobody was canceled here, and no one is “outlawing” Dr. Seuss books. A company simply acknowledged that change happens, and it made a decision it believed was best for business.

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That’s it.

If you need to be in your feelings this badly on a Tuesday, listen to The Weeknd and think about your ex, because this? This ain’t it, chief.