[GrootheWanderer]

Liberals say this is fine, but removing books with graphic visual representations of oral sex from elementary schools is a heinous crime.

[struggle]

“How dare you remove books from the children’s library!”

You’re doing the same thing by removing “objectionable content”

[dfwgator]

[Kriggerel]

Gee, I wonder how they’re going to handle the inconvenient fact that Dahl was a virulent anti-semite?

Oh, I forgot. That actually gives him street-cred in the “woke” community these days, a-là Roger Waters.

[HYPOCRACY]

Aren’t they fat shaming Augustus Gloop?

[Republican Wildcat]

“Boys and girls” has been turned into “children”. The Cloud-Men in James and the Giant Peach have become Cloud-People and Fantastic Mr Fox’s three sons have become daughters.

Insanity continues to be taken to new heights and then thrown over the edge.

These people are stupid and crazy.

[nickcarraway]

They aren’t liberals.

[Dagnabitt]

Just some cult-driven literary vandalism. Nothing to see here.

[Persevero]

I hope someone waits for the copywrite to end and then publishes originals.

[scrabblehack]

Is Roald Dahl still alive? He probably sold the rights to his books.

[cockroach_magoo]

R_____ is rolling over in his grave.

[KarlInOhio]

George Orwell's Winston Smith and the Chocolate Factory.

It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.

A number of 'The Times' which might, because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother, have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other copy existed to contradict it. Books, also, were recalled and rewritten again and again, and were invariably reissued without any admission that any alteration had been made.

[nickcarraway]

I guess the original version will not be available, and be traded samizdat.

[lepton]

The characteristics of the villains was deliberate, to both make them somewhat revolting, and to make them reflect their flaws. Removing that neuters the story.

[ApplegateRanch]

Damned Bowdlers!

[TBP]

Bowdlerizing classics to appease their massive egos.

[TBP]

What a bunch of Nazis those people are.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Hey, Puffinhead:

Oompah, loompah, doopity do
They will eventually come for you, too

[grundle]

This is absolutely horrible.

[Political Junkie Too]

Some selected quotes from the article that make you go "hmmmm..."

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The changes were made by the publisher, Puffin, and the Roald Dahl Story Company, now owned by Netflix, with sensitivity readers hired to scrutinise the text.

The review began in 2020, when the company was still run by the Dahl family. Netflix acquired the literary estate in 2021 for a reported £500 million.

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Sensitivities over Dahl’s stories were heightened when a 2020 Hollywood version of The Witches led to a backlash over its depiction of the Grand Witch, played by Anne Hathaway, with fingers missing from each hand.

Warner Bros was forced to make an apology after Paralympians and charities said it was offensive to the limb difference community.

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WTH is the "limb difference" community?

-PJ

[Caipirabob]

“ The publisher, Puffin, has made hundreds of changes to the original text”

As setting the text to fire and watching it burn was too much effort.