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Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books
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Re: Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books
#832I think it's actually immoral to change the works of artists without the artist agreeing to it.
What's immoral is changing the works of artists but then passing it off as the artist's original. Nothing wrong with changing the works of an artist or deriving new art from existing art so long as you make it very clear it is no longer the artist's original work. That's what ticks me off so much about this. Some people may buy 2022 versions of Roald Dahl's literature thinking it's his original work when it is not. I…
Yes, I 100% agree. I was too brief in my comment here.
Re: Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books
#833Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah; I don’t know why it’s taken people so long to realise this. I know it seems to people on Twitter that everyone is on twitter, but that’s really not true. About 10% of people in the USA use Twitter daily - which is a huge number of eyeballs. But that still leaves the remaining 90% of people choosing instead to enjoy our short time on this planet. If anything, I wouldn’t be surprised if the outrage over Hogwarts…
The thing with hogwarts legacy is that the minorities who are affected are like 1% of the population. Even if 100% of them loudly proclaimed anything anywhere on any social media platform, it would barely affect anything simply because they’re so small compared to the rest of the population. This is in the same sense that only a minority of the population are severely immunocompromised to the point where Covid is sti…
> The thing with hogwarts legacy is that the minorities who are affected are like 1% of the population.
There is not a single person anywhere in the world who is negatively affected by Hogwarts Legacy.
Re: Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books
#834Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is an important piece missing from your analysis that has led you astray. There is this concept of the oppressor and the oppressed. In a patriarchy men as a whole oppress women. Individual men should not be judged by this but women will tend to stick together to avoid the high probability that men will mistreat them. In a white supremacist society white people as a whole oppress people of color. Again people of…
> Because of this you cannot simply reverse the roles and say “see replace cis people with women/blacks and it sounds terrible”. Because what you have done is replace the dominant class with the oppressed class. You’ve changed the whole meaning of the thing. I think the point they are making is that cis and trans don't work in this sort of class analysis, as the two groups are in themselves too diverse. They have to…
What does the diversity of the groups have to do with anything? Trans people are (in general) oppressed in today's society, and the be perpetrators of that oppression are (in general) cis people. It should follow that trans folk finding a community of their own is admirable, but a community of cis-only folk should have to justify they're existence as something other than a tool to maintain oppression.
Re: Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books
#835While some of this is questionable the removal of the word 'fat' is an important one. 'Fat' should not be used in kids books as a derogatory, or at all frankly. Fat is an incredibly important and necessary part of a healthy diet and should be treared accordingly. Training people to think of fat in the antiquated notions of bad cardiogy isnt useful. So while this may have been a move centered around "body positivity",…
When someone is fat, they should feel some level of shame.
Re: Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books
#836Well this is Orwellian. Good job "liberals".
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#837Earlier quoted context omitted.
It read to me as if you think there isn’t sufficient standing to criticize these edits as long as another problem exists. The “I would also like to bring to your attention…” makes the denouncement in the previous sentence seem sarcastic. Replied in good faith to what I hope was an earnest question.
That was not my intention at all. I thought clearly stating that I thought TFA was a messed up situation made that clear. I think both things are not good.
I get it. I understand your meaning.
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#838Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the comment you wrote is better served to you. You ask for empathy and compassion where you offer none. I don't think you understood what is being written, and went for wiritbg a comment attacking rather than exploring.
Attacking is sometimes the appropriate response.
Only if you're in the 'objective' correct groupthink right ?
Re: Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books
#839They left in wonky nose, crooked mouth, and stick out teeth, but took out the reference to fat? That's wild. The fat is arguably the only fixable thing, or at least the cheapest. You can't "just stop eating so much" and fix a wonky nose or stick out teeth. Calories aren't magic and hard to fathom. Normalizing being overweight is going to kill a lot of people early.
It's really quite difficult to lose weight and keep it off. Certainly cheaper than dentistry, but still difficult. I read a book called 'Fat Chance' that goes into the science of why it's difficult.
That's probably because everything we've been taught about fat since the 80s turned out to be very wrong. Read up on the problems with the Lipid Hypothesis and the food pyramid which resulted from it.
Re: Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books
#840Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Because of this you cannot simply reverse the roles and say “see replace cis people with women/blacks and it sounds terrible”. Because what you have done is replace the dominant class with the oppressed class. You’ve changed the whole meaning of the thing. I think the point they are making is that cis and trans don't work in this sort of class analysis, as the two groups are in themselves too diverse. They have to…
What does the diversity of the groups have to do with anything? Trans people are (in general) oppressed in today's society, and the be perpetrators of that oppression are (in general) cis people. It should follow that trans folk finding a community of their own is admirable, but a community of cis-only folk should have to justify they're existence as something other than a tool to maintain oppression.
It does not follow. Care to help us get there? How can you task a member of a category (that you a
placed there yourself) with a responsibility?