I see a run on used book stores to gobble up old books while you still can get them.
This is getting out of control.
Firstly, each book will carry the following disclaimer:
“This book was written at a time when terms and attitudes which might be considered offensive by modern readers were commonplace. A number of updates have been made in this edition while keeping as close as possible to the original text and the period in which it is set.”
Now for the update to the text.
The Telegraph revealed that the word “n-----”, which Fleming used to refer to black people when he was writing during the '50s and '60s, has been ‘almost entirely expunged’ from the revised texts.
The Telegraph didn’t define what ‘almost entirely’ exactly means.
In the sensitivity reader-approved versions, the ’n-----’ word in most cases has been replaced by “black person” or “black man.” Racial descriptors are entirely dropped in some instances.
The ethnicity of a barman in “Thunderball” (1961) has been omitted in new editions.
In “Quantum of Solace,” (1960) the race of a butler goes unmentioned.
In “Goldfinger” (1959), the race of the drivers in the Second World War logistics unit, the Red Ball Express – which had many black servicemen – is not mentioned, instead referring only to “ex-drivers”.
In “Live and Let Die” (1954), Bond’s opinion of Africans in the gold and diamond trades as “pretty law-abiding chaps I should have thought, except when they’ve drunk too much” has been altered to “pretty law-abiding chaps I should have thought.”
Another scene in the book, set during a strip-tease at a Harlem nightclub, was originally read as follows:
“Bond could hear the audience panting and grunting like pigs at the trough. He felt his own hands gripping the tablecloth. His mouth was dry.”
This has been revised to:
“Bond could sense the electric tension in the room.”
A segment in the book describing accented dialogue as “straight Harlem-Deep South with a lot of New York thrown in,” has been removed.
When the book was first published in the U.S. in 1955, the title of the fifth chapter was changed from "N----- Heaven" to "Seventh Avenue."
In Dr. No (1957) criminals escaping from Bond become “gangsters” and the race of a doctor and immigration officer remain unmentioned.
But all racially pejorative terms will not be removed.
The racial terms Bond uses to refer to Asian people and his unfavorable views of the Korean character Oddjob from “Goldfinger” (1959) will remain.
The line in Casino Royale (1953) “the conquest of her body, because of the central privacy in her, would each time have the sweet tang of rape” will remain as well referring to homosexuality as a “stubborn disability.”
Winston Smith Lives
The name is Bland, James Bland.
Next thing you know, someone is going to rewrite Mein Kampf to make it less “objectionable”.
Squirrel!
echoes of Fahrenheit 451.
Digital book burning.
Are they going to rename Octopussy?
Has Mark Twain’s books been altered to N-word Jim, yet?
Who ever believed they would stop after taking down a few statues?
The rewrite efforts are only in its infancy.
Stop the communist memory-hole!
1984 by Orwell has literally become an operating manual for these communists.
Is this really necessary? Cancelling Fleming’s books because they upset the Snowflakes, Millenniums, Zeros and fags? How many James Bond books do they sell each year. Are the busybody Azhos going to remake all the movies also? I know the Millenniums, Snowflakes and Zeros are all very sensitive testosterone free sissy boys who vote for minority women a lot but I don’t think this kind of “I want to change the world” bovine scatology is really necessary.
So, a James Bond novel is now going to be three pages long now?
Unlikely. Given the current Democrat agreed upon scheme, it would make no sense for them to embrace Lincoln's avowed white supremacy aspirations.
The American Thinker isn't.
First Roald Dahl, now Ian Fleming. Any bets on who’s next?
How very Soviet of them...the very thing Mr. Bond fought against.
Gee, I wonder why the lefties want to ban “1984”?