Internet auction site eBay confirmed, Thursday, that it is scouring its open auctions for six &#8220;canceled&#8221; Dr. Seuss titles, reviewing seller profiles, and removing the listings, which the site claims violate its &#8220;offensive materials policy.&#8221;
On Thursday morning, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/now-its-ebay-website-reportedly-bans-sale-of-some-dr-seuss-books">the Daily Wire reported that eBay sellers</a> who had listed copies of six Dr. Seuss titles marked at &#8220;racist&#8221; and &#8220;offensive&#8221; and removed from publication by Dr. Seuss Enterprises &#8212; “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” &#8212; were receiving messages that they were no longer allowed to sell the books.
According to an eBay seller who received a message from the auction site&#8217;s standards and practices department about a removed listing, eBay is taking down the Dr. Seuss auctions because they violate the company&#8217;s &#8220;offensive materials policy&#8221; which bans the sale of items that &#8220;promote or glorify hatred, violence, or discrimination.&#8221;
<blockquote>We had to remove your listing because it didn’t follow our Offensive material policy. Listings that promote or glorify hatred, violence, or discrimination aren’t allowed.
What activity didn’t follow the policy[:]
Dr. Seuss Enterprises has stopped the publication of this book due to its negative portrayal of some ethnicities. As a courtesy, we have ended your item and refunded your selling fees, and as long as you do not relist the item, there will be no negative impact to your account. Please review our Offensive Materials Policy prohibits this item for more information.
What you need to do next.
You can’t relist items we’ve ended. Please ensure your current and future listings follow this policy.</blockquote>
The &#8220;offensive materials&#8221; policy states that:
<blockquote>&#8220;Listings that promote, perpetuate or glorify hatred, violence, or discrimination, including on the grounds of race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender or sexual orientation, aren’t allowed.&#8221;</blockquote>
Among those banned items, are &#8220;[i]tems with racist, anti-Semitic, or otherwise demeaning portrayals, for example through caricatures or other exaggerated features, including figurines, cartoons, housewares, historical advertisements, and golliwogs.&#8221;
On Thursday afternoon, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/dr-seuss-books-deemed-offensive-will-be-delisted-from-ebay-11614884201?adobe_mc=MCMID%3D91119413815751680011169279721662192294%7CMCORGID%3DCB68E4BA55144CAA0A4C98A5%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1614898173">the company confirmed to the Wall Street Journal</a> that they were taking action to remove the offending Dr. Seuss titles.
&#8220;Online marketplace eBay Inc. said it is working to prevent the resale of six Dr. Seuss books that were pulled earlier this week by the company in charge of the late author’s works because they contain offensive imagery,&#8221; the WSJ noted.
“eBay is currently sweeping our marketplace to remove these items,” a spokeswoman for the company reportedly told the outlet in an email.
&#8220;Hundreds of listings for the six books could be found on the platform as of Thursday morning, though the number appeared to be lower than it was on Wednesday evening,&#8221; the WSJ noted. &#8220;The eBay spokeswoman said it would take some time to review seller listings and that the company was monitoring newly published listings.&#8221;
As the Daily Wire pointed out earlier Thursday, the site still has copies of Adolf Hitler&#8217;s manifesto, &#8220;Mein Kampf&#8221; for sale, though the book clearly runs afoul of the site&#8217;s offensive materials policy. There is also <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-VHS-Tape-Dazzling-Disney-Movie-1989-Song-of-The-South-and-Bambi-Collection/313441335281?hash=item48fa8f37f1:g:TqkAAOSwPPZgQCGv">a listing for a copy of Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Song of the South</a>,&#8221; an early animated feature that the company has largely pulled from publication over concerns similar to those of Dr. Seuss Enterprises.
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Chris Harrison, the host of &#8216;The Bachelor&#8217; told &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; Thursday that he plans to return to the program after a hiatus and that he&#8217;s been working with a &#8220;race educator&#8221; in order to better understand the error that got him (temporarily) booted from the reality competition show.
Speaking to host Michael Strahan in his first interview since leaving &#8220;The Bachelor,&#8221; Harrison again apologized for &#8220;perpetuating racism&#8221; by suggesting that an embattled contestant should be given &#8220;grace&#8221; and allowed to explain herself after a photo emerged of her attending an antebellum-themed fraternity party in 2018.
Harrison promised that he would be back as the host of &#8220;The Bachelor&#8221; but suggested that he would be doing a round of apology interviews first.
“I plan to be back. I want to be back,” he said. “This interview is not the finish line. There is much more work to be done.”
Last month, Harrison appeared on the entertainment news program &#8220;Extra&#8221; to comment on &#8220;Bachelor&#8221; contestant Rachael Kirkconnell, who had been pictured attending a college party in full antebellum dress. In the interview, Harrison decried cancel culture and suggested that social media not be allowed to be &#8220;judge, jury, and executioner&#8221; when it comes to questions of possible racism. He asked that fans give Kirkconnell “a little grace, a little understanding” and allow her to explain the photo and, potentially, apologize.
Kirkconnell, who is expected to &#8220;win&#8221; this season of &#8220;The Bachelor&#8221; &#8212; the first season with a black single man in the title role &#8212; eventually did both.
Harrison, though, met with a wave of social media outrage and accusations that he was &#8220;perpetuating racism&#8221; by not openly and unequivocally condemning Kirkconnell&#8217;s actions. He eventually apologized &#8212; twice &#8212; and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bachelor-host-chris-harrison-steps-aside-over-accusations-of-perpetuating-racism-for-speaking-out-against-cancel-culture">announced that he was stepping aside</a> from hosting the program, at least for the remainder of this season. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bachelor-host-chris-harrison-replaced-with-ex-nfl-player-disclaimer-added-to-episode">ABC replaced Harrison</a> with ex-NFL player and host of the YouTube program, &#8216;Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man,&#8217; Emmanuel Acho, for the season&#8217;s final episode, and added a disclaimer to pre-filmed scenes which feature Harrison.
Harrison admitted, Thursday, that, in his Extra interview, he spoke “in a manner that perpetuates racism.&#8221;
&#8220;I am saddened and shocked at how insensitive I was in that interview and I didn&#8217;t speak from my heart,&#8221; Harrison told Strahan Thursday. &#8220;That is to say I stand against all forms of racism and I am deeply sorry. I&#8217;m sorry to Rachel Lindsay and I&#8217;m sorry to the Black community.&#8221;
&#8220;I am not a victim here,&#8221; Harrison added. &#8220;I made a mistake and I own that. Racism, oppression, these are big, dynamic problems and they take serious work. And I am committed to that work.&#8221;
He says that he has been working with &#8220;race educator&#8221; Dr. Eric Michael Dyson, &#8220;who has taught him the idea of &#8216;counsel, not cancel.'&#8221; As a result, Harrison said he’s taken &#8216;full accountability&#8217; for his actions and is learning from the black community by listening,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://pagesix.com/2021/03/04/chris-harrison-apologizes-to-rachel-lindsay-on-gma/">New York Post&#8217;s Page Six</a>.
Strahan was, apparently, not impressed with Harrison&#8217;s efforts. Following the interview, he called the discussion a &#8220;surface response.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bachelor-host-apologizes-for-perpetuating-racism-after-asking-for-grace-for-embattled-contestant">‘Bachelor’ Host Apologizes For ‘Perpetuating Racism’ After Asking ‘For Grace’ For Embattled Contestant</a>
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