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Fuck up a book for me please (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/books/roald-dahl-books-changes.html

https://bookriot.com/roald-dahl-books-sanitized/

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/roald-dahl-publisher-release-original-versions-after-backlash-2023-02-24/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, those edits were idiotic, all right, thanks for sharing

But I was more keen to see who celebrated those. Although, I am sure such people probably exist not only in the Dahl Estate

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It was possibly on Reddit, but you can imagine the rhetoric. I actually do think it was on Lemmy. I believe I said that the Oompa-Loompas being literal African Pygmies was a bit much, and could remember feeling that way even as a young child. I think even Mr Dahl himself might have come to the same conclusion in later life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is okay for people to change their views, I think it's better to add author's or editor's commentary in such a case, not censor the shit out of the book