Have the thudding ignoramuses of MAGA and the rapey sociopaths of Moms4Liberty banned “Ferdinand the Bull” yet? That’s the book that turned me into a peacenik Antifa hippie pansy forever. [illustration by Robert Lawson]
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I loved that book, and read it to my kid often. But I was raised to be a peacenik Antifa hippie tree-hugger, so books just solidified those beliefs. My parents had me a solid liberal/progressive by about 1953 or 54 (I was a toddler), when everyone we knew was under scrutiny by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.@stevesilberman@newsie.social
Ever heard of it.@stevesilberman@newsie.social animated disney version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN62cxSs5Q8@stevesilberman@newsie.social a favorite from my childhood and a standard on my children.s bookshelf.
