The kerfuffle this week triggered by a 'woke' publisher's decision to censor the works of children's author Roald Dahl, whose titles, including Matilda, The Witches, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, James and The Giant Peach and The Twits along with many others have been loved by children since the 1950s.
By removng many words which the 'woke' brigade consider 'insensitive' but are often important for their onomatopoeic value, the humourless, killjoy censors have also spoiled many passages which, as well as being funny in a childish way, also help young minds develop a love of language.
Worse, in future there will be a patronising and moralistic message at the foot of the title page, which reads: “Words matter. The wonderful words of Roald Dahl can transport you to different worlds and introduce you to the most marvellous characters. This book was written many years ago, and so we regularly review the language to ensure that it can continue to be enjoyed by all today.”
Put simply this is telling readers or their parents, This is not the book that Roald Dahl wrote.
We, the woke elite' have decided that you, dear readers, are not intelligent enough to read the story as the author intended it to be read, so we have relocated it to a world where nobody is fat or ugly or skinny, stupid, dirty or poor and there are no men and boys or women and girls as the use of those words might offend fat and skinny, ugly, stupid, dirty, poor transexuals and non binary pansexuals.
In doing this the publishers have given themselves licence to edit any writer as they see fit, chopping, altering and adding where necessary to bring books in line with contemporary social and political sensibilities or, more likely, to ensure nothing is published that might prompt readers to question the narratives of the 'woke' agenda promoted by globalists. Comparisons of the latest editions with earlier versions of the texts has identified hundreds of changes to Dahl’s stories.
Language related to weight, mental health, violence, gender and race has been cut and rewritten. The fat boy in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory is no longer fat but enormous despite the fact that his name, Gloop, suggests rolls of gloopy fat wobbling around when he moves. Remember the Cloud-Men in James and the Giant Peach? They are now the non binary Cloud-People. The Small Foxes in Fantastic Mr Fox are now female. In Matilda, a mention of Rudyard Kipling has been cut and Jane Austen added although while children could be familiar with The Jungle Book they are likely to be at least a decade away from wanting to read Pride and Prejudice.
Dahl, who died in 1990, has consistently been one of the most successful children’s authors of all time with more than 250 million copies of his books, which include novels such as The Witches, The Twits and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as well as his memoirs Boy and Going Solo sold worldwide. His stories are characterised by dark humour and unexpected twistlt so with an enormous sense of fun and the suggestion, loved by all children, that its OK to be outrageous in ways that their teachers would disapprove of.
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