Who's to say we weren't pissed off by it in the past? Also, just because something has happened in the past doesn't mean people can't be angry about it in the present. There's always been rape and murder but we don't have the same dismissive attitude towards those things just because they've always gone on.
Half the posts in this thread are acting like this is a new phenomenon. That's my complaint.
Admittedly I haven't read Roald Dahl since it was required in school and wouldn't have otherwise. There was Blume, which handled this sort of thing separately at the time.
What's fairly new is that this censorship is all in a leftwing direction. Many of the people who react to this with you're moaning about nothing would absolutely lose their minds if it was the other way round.
The left and right are both doing it. It's not one side or the other.
To be fair, according to the change, it's actually turning the phrase "enormously fat" into simply "enormous." So they really just removed the word "fat" (I guess that's somehow worse than "enormous" though?).
I'm not outraged. I don't fall for any of the 'either side' nonsense that has infested every corner of life. I don't watch news, believe in social media posts for fly flags for any team, group or company. Please don't assume.
I get the impression the perpetually outraged would call that a "dog whistle" and go like this:
Big boned, as my ma would say.
That's not really true though, is it.
Where in that article does it say that Clockwork Orange was rewritten to remove all objectional content and rereleased in that censored state?
The right just tries to ban them all together. I am in no way defending this but both sides have just hit rock bottom and continue to go under it these days.
Ban how? They’re going after publishers? And which books? This case is the publisher itself rewriting material. Seems like a bigger deal to me. It’s not exactly a different take by another author
Look at all the people trying to pull books out of school libraries because they are deemed too progressive.
I’ve seen some of those books. Teaching kids how guys fuck and lubing dildos. Real progressive
They literally removed a biography of baseball player Roberto Clemente from libraries because he briefly mentioned racism.
I know it seems arbitrary, but that was for under 3rd grade. What is wrong with them reading it when they’re old enough to comprehend such things? Kids need to be learning new languages before 6, physical development, and the basics of life. Deal with children for more than a week, and you’ll see what I mean
This reads like a Simpsons or South Park parody or something. It's so hamfisted and over-the-top it's hard to believe it's real.
I wrote something you didn't like. Lol
My little pony, Care Bears cartoons, bye bye , GI joe, mask , all will be rewritten
Censorship is being done by both sides. What they’re censoring varies but it’s the same goal in the end. Culture warz.
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You’re ignoring the point and arguing semantics.
I agree. It’s not good when anyone does this but I’m not going to get upset over children’s books as a middle aged dude without kids.In the bad old days the easily offended would take offense at the use of curse words, sexual allusions, depictions of violence and gore ... But then we got the sexual revolution of the 60ies, censorship was mostly abolished and writers could write whatever they wanted. But fifty years passed since then and somehow we wound up in a place where the easily offended get offended by just about anything that smacks of generalization and non-inclusivity.
The Witches is a creepy children's book about witches who have one major characteristic: they're bald women. But oh, no! That's offensive to women who surviced cancer, so just remove those references or soften descriptions of nasty looking women. Let's just remove anything nasty so absolutely _nobody_ could ever take offense.
It is not semantics in any way. One is "banning" (which does not and has never worked), and the other is replacing the original text via restricting access to the original and facilitating access to the modified version. Eventually, the modified version will be accepted as the truth. This happens all the time, usually for commercial purposes. How many people still alive do you think have watched the original edit of Star Wars?
Yes, this is 100% commercially driven, most likely due to declining sales. Which probably has less to do with the contents of the book and more to do with increased consumption of video for young people. Intentionally creating controversy to increase sales isn’t a new tactic.
This isn't about preservation though, this is about what the actual public has access to, which is what actually influences and shapes them. Yes, the original edit of Star Wars exists. My point is every single year millions of people watch Star Wars for the first time and it is not the original edit. They probably don't even know that there is a version other than what is on Disney+. To them, and the rest of the public for the past 20+ years, the new version IS Star Wars.
