VOA常速英语:Is It Time to Cancel Dr. Seuss Due to Racist Imagery

The offending images in the six cancelled Dr Seuss books
这六本书中出现令人反感的图片，苏斯博士的书因此下架。
contain stereotypes of black people Asians and Arabs.
包含黑人、亚洲人和阿拉伯人的刻板印象。
Dr Seuss author Theodore Seuss Geisel died in 1991
苏斯博士，作者西奥多·苏斯·盖泽尔于1991年去世。
but this year on his birthday
但今年他生日那天
the company founded by Dr Seusss family decided to stop printing six of his books
这家由苏斯博士家族创办的公司决定停止印刷他的六本书
because they portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.
因为他们用伤害和错误的方式描绘人。
We often sees national or ethnic or racial difference as as exotic um and as fun or as funny as
我们经常看到民族、民族或种族的差异，就像异国情调一样有趣
in in highlighting the exotic of somebody or the the otherness of somebody
突出某人的异国情调或某人的另一面
as as a point of amusement.
作为一种娱乐。
You know you are telling people that
你知道你在告诉人们
national or ethnic or or racial difference can be the punch line
民族或民族或种族的差异可能是笑点。
and that is painful if you are a member of the group who is the punchline.
如果你是小组的一员，被笑的人。这是痛苦的
Allegations of racial stereotypes in the authors work arent new.
对提交作品中的种族歧视型观念的指控并不新鲜。
The Dr Seuss museum in the authors home town of Springfield Massachusetts
作者家乡马萨诸塞州斯普林菲尔德的苏斯博士博物馆
removed a mural after complaints.
在投诉后移除一幅壁画。
The mural depicted a Chinese character with slanted eyes chopsticks and a pointed hat.
这幅壁画描绘了一个华裔形象，斜着的眼睛，用筷子和尖顶的帽子。
The librarians have known about this for a long time and have been discussing this for decades.
图书馆员们早就知道这件事了，已经讨论了几十年了。
Jason Homer heads up a library system not far from the Dr Seuss museum.
詹森·荷马领导一个图书馆系统，离苏斯博士博物馆不远。
He says the authors books are not particularly popular at his libraries
他说作者的书在他的图书馆里并不特别受欢迎
but they will stay on the shelves.
但它们会留在货架上。
In the top 100 childrens checked out titles last year
去年在前100名儿童中
only one Dr Seuss book appeared and that was cat in the hat.
只有一本苏斯博士的书出现了，那就是戴着帽子的猫。
Were moving these books because people might object are very much go against
我们要下架这些书 因为人们可能会反对
what we stand for as a public library
我们所代表的公共图书馆
We want to provide materials.
我们要提供材料。
Our job is to enlighten enrich and inform our community.
我们的工作是启发、丰富我们的社区的知识。
Offensive at best and horribly racist at worst
充其量是进攻性的，最坏的是可怕的种族主义
Geizels racist imagery exists outside of his popular childrens books.
盖泽尔的种族主义形象存在于他受欢迎的儿童读物之外。
He published political cartoons during world war Two
他在第二次世界大战期间出版了政治漫画。
containing harmful stereotypes of Japanese Americans that questioned their patriotism.
含有对日裔美国人有害的刻板印象质疑他们的爱国主义。
Supposedly Japanese figures with cookie cutter faces all of them similar all of them male
被认为是刻板的日本人形象，它们都很相似，都是男性
marching down from Washington and Oregon into California to pick up blocks of TNT explosive
从华盛顿和俄勒冈州向加利福尼亚进发 捡起TNT炸药块
and the title of the cartoon is waiting for the waiting for the signal from home.
动画片的标题正在等待等家里的信号。
The guy on the roof is has a telescope painted toward Japan pointed toward Japan.
屋顶上的那个家伙有个望远镜朝日本画，指向日本。
Theres evidence the author regretted his early depictions of non-white people.
有证据表明，作者对他早期对非白人的描绘感到遗憾。
Some of his later books include lessons on tolerance and inclusion.
他后来的一些书包括关于宽容和包容的课程。
People often think of racism as either or youre on team racism or youre not and
常常认为人们要么是，要么不是种族主义分子或者你加入了种族主义团队或者你不是.
thats not actually how it works you know
你知道，这并不是真正的
Zeus is on both teams.
宙斯在两队。
Philip Nell heads up the childrens literature program at Kansas State University.
菲利普·内尔负责堪萨斯州立大学的儿童文学项目。
He views the removal of the six Seuss books as an appropriate product recall.
他认为移除六本苏斯的书。适当的产品召回。
Also as a child I think youre absorbing things that you dont know
还是个孩子的时候我觉得，你在吸收你不知道的东西
youre absorbing you are um learning things without your consent
你在吸收没有得到你的同意就被灌输的东西
um these ideas these images just start to populate your brain without you signing on to the idea
嗯，这些想法这些图像刚刚开始填充你的大脑，不必经过我的同意
that its okay to mock people for being different or
可以嘲笑不同的人
kind of highlight their exoticism to to be amusing.
有点突出他们的异国情调为了好玩。
Its the end of the story for these six titles
这六个标题的故事到此结束
but dozens of beloved Dr Seuss books remain in print for future generations of children to discover.
但是，数十本深爱的苏斯博士的书仍在印刷中。让后代的孩子们去发现。
Dora Macquarie VOA News Washington
华盛顿美国之音