4/30/2023 0 Comments Bright memory infinite price![]() ![]() He’s the perfect choice to be laid down on the wire.Īnd if they set a precedent that it’s now ok to go back and “revise language”…what’s next? who’s next? Dickens? Twain? While the fact he was a children’s author means anyone who does raise concerns can be dismissed with either indifference ( “it’s just a kids books, it doesn’t matter”) or false-moralising ( “we need to protect children!”). His known racist attitudes make him controversial enough that some will be hesitant to defend his work. So some are framing this as Netflix seeking to protect their investment by making sure Dahl remains profitable in the age of cancel culture.īut even that is a simplification – after all, Netflix is more than just an entertainment company, they have noted political ties and have relentlessly pushed state-backed propaganda in the past.Įven the choice of Dahl as the man to lead a forlorn hope down the memory hole is carefully calculated. It’s been noted that the edits come in the wake of the Dahl estate closing a huge deal with Netflix for exclusive rights to all of Dahl’s work. Some have described the edits as a natural by-product of capitalism. This is not about being woke or unwoke, it’s about the normalisation of post hoc censorship that should concern everyone. While that may read like a PC nightmare, it’s more insidious than that. ![]() Others are far more interventionist, including entire songs rewritten in James and the Giant Peach, or new sentences added in The Witches which explain that there are myriad reasons why people might wear wigs. In some cases, these are minor tweaks to one or two words in a sentence. The changes range from the removal of outright racist stereotypes to the deletion of the word “fat”, gendered phrases (be it “chambermaid”, “females” or “hag”) and references to “pink” or “white” skin. As covered by CJ Hopkins in his most recent column, Roald Dahl’s publishers have hired a team of “sensitivity readers”, in order to edit the next edition of Dahl’s books to remove outdated language.Īccording to this piece in The New Statesman: ![]() The first shocking censorship of 2023 dropped last week. ![]()
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