Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books

Post by Symbiote » Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 4:51 PM UTC

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It is, in fact, so thoroughly banned that it's available with free shipping from Barnes & Noble.

Even mentioning it indirectly gets my comment moved to shadow banned! That's why everyone is so confused where all this radical social change stuff came from. Anyone who even does research into this area gets shutdown with overwhelming force. There is no debate. Everything goes straight to censorship like an answer to the question I was replying to cannot exist. It is simply a mystery! The whole thing happened sponta…

Post by biztos » Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 5:00 PM UTC

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There are tons of books that actually are a product of the current time. Why not read those, and support living writers, instead of changing the meaning of older works? Seems like your problem here is easier to solve without messing with the other writers and potentially confusing your child about what, say, a Ronald Dahl book is actually like.

Because they might not know the modern books or because they might like the older books, except for 0.001% of their content.

Post by NoZebra120vClip » Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 5:02 PM UTC

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"Bewitched" is a classic tale of same-sex marriage, men in the closet, and uneasy gay-straight alliances. "E.T.: The Extraterrestrial" is a classic coming-of-age story of a gay man in the modern world. Dracula by Bram Stoker is the quintessential gay liberation epic.

> "E.T.: The Extraterrestrial" is a classic coming-of-age story of a gay man in the modern world. I don't know a single actual person who saw the film in that light. I can find references to the hypothesis online, but it seems like an incredible reach to me. More like an excellent demonstration of the human brain's ability to see patterns everywhere, even when they don't actually exist. E.g. conspiracy theories. > "B…

Post by bee_rider » Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 5:21 PM UTC

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In current American English, “female” has shifted to usually being an adjective, woman is a noun. Referring to people by noun-ing one of the adjectives that describes them is something considered reductive by a chunk of the population. If someone is a fan of “female” as a noun: I’m not going to change your mind. I get that changing language is annoying sometimes. I’m pointing out that “female” as a noun does bother s…

> Referring to people by noun-ing one of the adjectives that describes them The noun sense of female well precedes (going back to its Latin roots) the adjectival sense of the word. [1] The adjectival sense came from the noun, the exact reverse of what you are saying. And this pattern of adjectives coming from nouns (e.g. leafy , greasy , beautiful , harmful , dangerous , adventurous ) is common, while the reverse is…

Post by lozenge » Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 5:55 PM UTC

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OK, but how does an Indian child feel reading that, who has their name mispronounced every day (sometimes carelessly, sometimes with profuse apologies, sometimes deliberately), and knowing that Pondicherry could never be the name of an Indian prince?

How do children of any specific minority feel when they read historical accounts of racial injustice against their people? Probably really terrible, and maybe even scared. Should they not learn about that history because it makes them feel horrible? That would be extremely unwise since the mistakes of history tend happen again once society forgets. Old works of fiction also belong in historical narrative because it h…