Roald Dahl.

[Tish 2]

Exciting news from the UK.The powers that be have decided to re-write all of Roald Dahl's books in case the originals offended anyone.

Whats the panel think?

[metisdead]

Not Thailand related, moving to the UK & Europe Topics and Events forum. 

[Jingthing]

Didn't the publishers decide this?

That's not the same as being forced to.

However I did read the changes and find  them ridiculous.

 

[Hummin]

It is the time we live in. Old classics for children and grown ups, is pulled from marked, rewritten or burned. It is this century burning down the past! 

 

So much energy used on the past, instead of do what this do and live today as yesterday never happened and future never comes. I guess my last sentence was wrong in some way, and might offend someone.

[mikebike]

???????? clutch those pearls folks. Dahl was edited for questionable content by his publisher/editors before first volumes were ever published. The newest edits are some questionable fat-shaming lines edited by a word here and there. Ooooh scary ????

[KhunLA]

Publisher's attempt at wokeness ... just more silliness.

 

Enormous vs enormously fat ... why bother

@Tish 2 already got a thread running:

https://aseannow.com/topic/1287026-critics-reject-changes-to-roald-dahl-books-as-censorship/#comment-17911376

 

For the curious:

"Augustus Gloop, Charlie’s gluttonous antagonist in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” which originally was published in 1964, 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” was removed from the description of the terrible tractors in 1970s “The Fabulous Mr. Fox.” The machines are now simply “murderous, brutal-looking monsters.”

 

Edited February 21, 2023 by KhunLA

[metisdead]

As it has been pointed out in the post above, there is already a topic about this here:

 

 

 

Please continue there.

 

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