Roald Dahl's children's books; Once banned, now bastardized

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Roald Dahl's children's books; Once banned, now bastardized

1proximity1
Modifié : Fév 21, 2023, 2:01 am

Never mind book "banning" --which has happened to the work of Roald Dahl plenty of times in the course of his life and since he died in 1990.

Dahl's children's-books are now the objects of crass "woke-driven" re-writing, "sanitizing", making their stories "safe" for little children and in the process, of course, ruining the author's work and rendering it insipid and anodyne for young readers who used to find excitement and challenges in Dahl's stories.

This is the literature equivalent of making healthy children walk with crutches. It's emblematic of the almost unbelievable stupidity of our times.



... " A review of new editions of Dahl's books now available in bookstores shows that some passages relating to weight, mental health, gender and race have been altered.

"The changes made by Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Random House, first were reported by Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper.

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's Augustus Gloop is no longer 'enormously fat', just 'enormous'.

"In the new edition of Witches, a supernatural female posing as an ordinary woman may be working as a 'top scientist or running a business' instead of as a 'cashier in a supermarket or typing letters for a businessman'."

"The word 'black' has removed from the description of the terrible tractors in The Fabulous Mr. Fox, with the machines now described as 'murderous, brutal-looking monsters'."
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News report: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-20/roald-dahl-books-changes-rejected-by-crit...


Let's teach children to expect a bubble-existence from cradle to---
Oh, dear. We can no longer explain death to children.

"Grandma had to go away. No, she's not angry. No, she still loves you. No, she's won't come back to see us. We have to remember her."

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Moronic author, Philip Pullman says, “Let him (i.e. Dahl's books) go out of print”....

Shall we next "let Shakespeare('s works) go out of print"?

2varielle
Fév 20, 2023, 5:41 pm

I heard that and couldn’t believe it. Could his estate not stop this? I still remember one of his stories I read around 1972. In it a woman was predicting her death and planning to reincarnate as an otter then a little Nubian boy to plague her husband’s new wife. It was an eye opener.

3lilithcat
Fév 20, 2023, 6:09 pm

>2 varielle:

Could his estate not stop this?

"The Roald Dahl Story Company* said it worked with Puffin to review the texts because it wanted to ensure "Dahl's wonderful stories and characters continue to be enjoyed by all children today".

* TRDSC controls Dahl's intellectual property.

4proximity1
Modifié : Fév 21, 2023, 2:38 pm

>2 varielle: >3 lilithcat:

Right. This is a very good example-case of what happens when, in a phrase I've borrowed* from Heather MacDondald, "identity politics poisons its host."
The barbarians aren't merely "at the gate"; they're not even merely "in the city": they're in charge of much of it. It's for that reason that people such as Glenn Greenwald or Matt Taibbi, steadfast defenders of liberal principles and formerly approved of by the majority of the former liberally-minded "Left", have since become heretics in the eyes of this latter.

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* from the magazine "The Guardians in Retreat" | Redefining its purpose as antiracism, the Art Institute of Chicago abandons its core mission of preserving history’s treasures and instructing future generations. | Heather Mac Donald | Winter 2022


from the magazine "Barometer of Hate" | A major Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit rejects beauty and cultivates racial resentment. | Heather Mac Donald | Winter 2023 | CJ's Topics: "The Social Order" ;
"Arts and Culture"

John W. Aldridge's In Search of Heresy: American Literature in an Age of Conformity is more prescient with each passing year.

And Glenn Greenwald's How Would a Patriot Act? must, in an example of just the phenomenon mentioned, now be read only alongside and only in light of

Victor Davis Hanson's The Dying Citizen, for certain of the essential assumptions Greenwald had taken to be his guide have since become better defended by Trump than by Greenwald's former ideological allies.

5supercell
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