The censoring of Roald Dahl

[Janszoon]

Hence, there's nothing 1984 about this.

Exactly. I think it's valid to say this editorial decision is silly, but the slippery slope doomsaying in this thread is pretty over the top.

[Toy Revolver]

it's 1984 adjacent

"Sensitivity Readers" from an organization called Inclusive Minds, sounds like something out of '1984' by George Orwell.

the thought police, thoughtcrime, unperson, doublethink newspeak ministry of truth


any 8th grader can see how it's not exactly like 1984 which totally misses the point of what we were supposed to learn

when there's a weird committee deciding what words are in and what words are out and they use copyright laws to force the change in publication that's a bit of surveillance capitalism doing its ugly thing

orwell wasn't trying to prove he was nostradamus he was telling us what to look at for from any controlling entity and we ignore this at our own peril

the fact that it's self-imposed is actually even more disturbing

[Toy Revolver]

Hence, there's nothing 1984 about this.

Exactly. I think it's valid to say this editorial decision is silly, but the slippery slope doomsaying in this thread is pretty over the top.

if this wasn't one example out of hundreds you'd be right - that's why it should've stayed in the anti-woke thread

[Psy-Fi]

Penguin to publish 'classic' Roald Dahl books after backlash

[Toy Revolver]

Penguin to publish 'classic' Roald Dahl books after backlash

ah the classic "new coke" scam

lol good for them - make a dollar yo

[FETCHER.]

I read about 10 Roald Dahl books recently from a little set I ended up with. I hadn't read any of his book since I was a kid and I find this utterly hilarious but not surprising. When I was finishing the books on Goodreads, I ended up reading some of the reviews and some were pretty woke and in line with this article 😂

[Guybrush]

I just watched a couple of the Wes Anderson directed movie versions of Roald Dahl short stories that were recently released on Netflix and they were quite good, I thought 🙂

I've seen The Rat Catcher and Poison so far. Looking forward to the rest!