update The author has contacted me and the story in question was never intended for publication; it was part of a private mailing list. It might still be legal to publish that, but I think it's in poor taste (since the author is not a public figure). Accordingly, I've removed personal references/attacks and would like to change the gist of this post to: Is it "The Lorax" really anti-Capitalist?

update The story's been removed with no explanation. If you don't want to open your writing up to criticism, why put it on a blog in the first place? That's just intellectual cowardice. [Note: He did not put it on the blog; someone else did without his consent.]

Oversensitive political correctness is bad enough coming from the Left. It looks just as ridiculous coming from the right, as I read that someone dissuaded his daughter's preschool teacher from reading Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax" because it was too "grossly anti-Capitalist".

Guess what—some capitalists are willing to trade long-term sustainability of an enterprise for greater short-term gains. And that story describes one such fictional character. That doesn't make it inherently anti-Capitalist. Sheesh.

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