A prime feature of leftism is to make war against the dead. No one is safe from this. When they’re not desecrating your grave, they’re trashing your name and reputation.
Iconic children’s books author Roald Dahl is the latest victim of the mob that displays its professed love of freedom by erasing freedoms (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/books/roald-dahl-books-changes.html). You’d think his publisher and his estate would protect him, but you’d be wrong. And just to seal the deal, Netflix–it doesn’t get much farther left than Netflix–is managing the poor guy’s copyrights. Having died in 1990, Dahl is defenseless.
Some outfit named “Inclusive Minds”–oh, God help us: it “champions diversity”–has been given the job of vandalizing Dahl’s books. They champion diversity by wiping it out.
Among the multitude of changes they have imposed on books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the deletion of “un-inclusive” words like “mothers” and “fathers.” Achtung! Normal parents are now verboten!
How angry would I be if they waited till I died and then took my books and turned them into PC parades? They’ve got the technology to do it easily… to every book in print, if they like. That’s how you champion diversity!
Indeed, this campaign is so abhorrent to common decency that even some leftids are objecting to it. Including Britain’s new prime minister, Rishi Sunak.
We really do need to think of a way to put a stop to this.
I heard about this and it infuriates me beyond belief. I’m so glad I held onto the books from my childhood before the butchers got hold of Dahl’s works.
(And not that he doesn’t have plenty of adult stuff published as well. I can’t imagine the paroxysms these snowflakes would find themselves in if they get bent out of shape over the children’s books)
There used to be a TV series, “Tales of the Unexpected,” featuring stories by Roald Dahl–some of which were slightly unsettling.
They did the same thing to the Mary Poppins books a number of years ago. Thank goodness I still have the original editions.