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Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered... Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. - George Orwell
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Of every change the ones to Augustus Gloop not being called "enormously fat" and instead being called "enormous" are the most jarring as his story is a moral parable about the dangers of gluttony. Even if you think such moral parables are wrong, the phrasing change isn't simply just aesthetic, it's fundamentally changing the story's narrative.
Perhaps it would be best to not read a book with them.
> In Matilda, a mention of Rudyard Kipling has been cut and Jane Austen added. Burning books was at least honest.
You left out the full quote > She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling > She went to nineteenth century estates with Jane Austen. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and California with John Steinbeck Possibly because both Kipling and Conrad wrote books with colonial themes At the same time, if that tone gets erased (e.g. t…
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Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling wrote favorably about colonialism; they were replaced with more agreeable authors. Use of gendered language is marginalizing to nonbinary people. It's easy to figure out why these changes are being made in particular, once you take a position of empathy.
>It's easy to figure out why these changes are being made in particular, once you take a position of empathy. It's easy to figure out why these changes are being made in particular, and it has nothing to do with empathy.
I'm a non-native English speaker. What's wrong with screeching?
"Screeching" in english (at least North American english) is typically a gendered derogative. You generally wouldn't say a man was "screeching", not unless you also wanted to imply he was effeminate. By avoiding the word, you avoid insinuating the target's gender is part of the issue, and/or avoid insinuating that the target is effeminate when they "should not" be, i.e. you avoid homophobia.
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It's The Transgender-Industrial Complex by Scott Howard, published by Antelope Hill Publishing.
I'll save everyone here the read: according to Howard, the Jews are behind it all. Of course.
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Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling wrote favorably about colonialism; they were replaced with more agreeable authors. Use of gendered language is marginalizing to nonbinary people. It's easy to figure out why these changes are being made in particular, once you take a position of empathy.
Joseph Conrad wrote favorably of colonialism?! Have you read Heart of Darkness ?
Media changes, art is reshaped by new generations. Roald Dahl is dead, the rights to his books have been sold and people are updating them to keep them relevant. This happens to translations (as an example) all the time as the popular lexicon changes. This is how media and art stays relevant. The world changes. The owners of the books have a vested interest in modifying them to continue to be relevant. The tweaks hav…
Does it still have Roald Dahl's name on it?