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Scholastic pulls book by ‘Captain Underpants’ author Dav Pilkey with ‘harmful racial stereotypes’

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Scholastic has pulled a book by "Captain Underpants" author Dav Pilkey that the publisher says "perpetuates passive racism."

     
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