Cancel culture's war on children's books authors continues
They went after JK Rawling . They went after Dr Seuss . Who's next ?
Add Roald Dahl to the list . His lifetime accomplishments speaks for themselves . A fighter pilot in WWII for the Brits ,an intel officer ,a diplomat .... he went on to become a famous author /poet . Some of his more famous work include. 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' ,and 'Matilda . His books have sold more than 300 million copies and have been translated into 63 languages, while there have been numerous adaptations of his work for both the big and small screens. According to CNN.
Roald Dahl book changes spark censorship spat - CNN Style
Recent editions of his works have been altered like they did to Mark Twain to eliminate words no longer acceptable to the woke mob. "Sensitivity readers" were hired to scrutinize the text of his works with parts rewritten for a modern audience.
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Edits have been made to descriptions of characters’ physical appearances. The word “fat” has been cut from every new edition of relevant books, while the word “ugly” has also been culled,
the Daily Telegraph reported. Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is now described as “enormous”. In The Twits, Mrs Twit is no longer “ugly and beastly” but just “beastly”.
Hundreds of changes were made to the original text – and some passages not written by Dahl have been added.
Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive | Roald Dahl | The Guardian
Who is there to defend Dahl ? Salman Rushdi ;perhaps the first modern victim of the cancel culture jihad has piped in .
Salman Rushdie on Twitter: "Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship. Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed." / Twitter
Rushdi suffered for his courage in writing 'The Satanic Verses' with multiple stab wounds that cost him an eye as he spoke at a literary conference in upstate New York. His words have weight . He lives with the threat every day.
Perhaps the words of Rushdie and Rawlings and Mario Vargas Llosa ,the Peruvian novelist who bravely speaks out and writes against dictators ,wokeness and censorship will some day reverse this trend of literary cancel culture ;for the sake of civilization