Posted on 02/25/2023 5:26:47 AM PST by devane617
An important thing recently happened that may portend cracks in the grip the left’s woke hammer has on western culture and civilization. European countries are directly criticizing a British publisher for re-writing some of children’s author Roald Dahl’s work in the name of woke sensitivity.
The western world noticed quite swiftly when Puffin Publishers in England announced they had hired “sensitivity readers” charged with making changes to some of Dahl’s classics, including “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” “James and the Giant Peach,” and “Matilda.” The woke changes focused on eliminating descriptive language that was deemed offensive and gender-based references which for some unknown reason infuriate the left.
Fox News reported, “In James and the Giant Peach, the character of Miss Sponge is no longer described as the fat one, Miss Spider’s head is not ‘black’ anymore, and the Earthworm has given up its ‘lovely pink’ skin for ‘lovely smooth skin’…In ‘Matilda,’ the description of Mrs. Trunchbull’s ‘great horsey face’ has been changed to simply ‘face,’ and ‘eight nutty little idiots’ now reads “eight nutty little boys…Similarly, in “James and the Giant Peach,” the Cloud-Men are now Cloud-People.”
Are there passages, descriptions, and references in some of Dahl’s books that would offend today’s sensibilities? Considering everything offends the left, it’s a given. But the point here is, are we so soft, fragile, and paranoid that the only way to cope is to change the words of a writer to soothe our bruised egos? If we are to survive the world, we should hope not.
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The governor of NC is a democrat and apparently he is on board with the UNC pushback on woke. If that is the case that’s big as well and suggests at least some dems are growing a pair instead of cutting them off.
I’ll believe when I see it though.
Woke editing is a step toward Fahrenheit 451.
Deconstruction on steroids.
We are too far gone.
Why do all of the Wokesters have very punchable faces? Especially those whose faces look like hardware stores.
Nice twist of phrase!
“Cracks in the grip thatthe woke hammer has”
That is quite a mixed metaphor or two right there.
“ We are too far gone.”
I strongly tend toward this view as well. This doesn’t seem to be a place you come back from. It is a place where we can see that some from of protection or cover has been removed and the worst of anti-human forces have invaded and taken over. This is a place from which you either fall into a deep dark age from, or a place where mass death, destruction and war comes from. Or both.
You don't really need a fire to have a book burning. That's just theater to rile up the fascist in people.
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