roobeedoo2 in Children's Literature, Humour, Literature, Music, Political Correctness, Politics, Selfie Sounds Like Sophie, Shamble, Sophia's Correction, synchronicity, Who Knows What, Yellow smoking universe (reproduction) 20/02/2023 24 Words

CLICK5: Re-Write & Write-Off…

Publisher Puffin hired so-called sensitivity readers to scrutinise Roald Dahl's texts and bring them into line with "contemporary sensibilities"—100s of changes have now been made to plots, storylines and characters, with some sections rewritten entirely.https://t.co/EeRlGRTrvr
— The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion) February 18, 2023

I have rewritten Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and deleted all of the problematic and offensive elements.

You’re welcome. pic.twitter.com/x05WG9DOjz
— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) February 19, 2023

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8 thoughts on “CLICK5: Re-Write & Write-Off…”

elenamitchell says:

20/02/2023 at 18:19

What a cheek. Don’t publish anything in case someone doesn’t like it.

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1. Roobeedoo2 says:
  
  20/02/2023 at 19:12
  
  It’s worse than that, Elena – they don’t love or hate the literature; their own passion is for conformity.
  
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Clicky says:

20/02/2023 at 19:17

The works of Roald Dahl have been given a PC acid wash. Augustus Gloop is no longer ‘fat’. The Oompa-Loompas have gone gender-neutral. Lunatics have taken over arts and culture, writes @Tom_Slater_https://t.co/MB5cH9h1Zw

— spiked (@spikedonline) February 19, 2023

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Joe Public says:

20/02/2023 at 22:37

Another entry nicked from B3TA

More mirth from the Photo-shopping magicians:

https://b3ta.com/challenge/modernisebooks/page1

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1. Roobeedoo2 says:
  
  20/02/2023 at 22:44
  
  Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
  Book by T. S. Eliot
  
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Doonhamer says:

21/02/2023 at 11:29

Beatty explains that books must be burned because “we can’t have our minorities upset and stirred.” He explains that the most fundamental aim of society is to ensure that everyone is happy. Therefore, as literature often makes some people unhappy, it must be destroyed….
Written / published1953, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. 1953!
We are more subtle now. Subtle like a sledge-hammer.

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1. Clicky says:
  
  21/02/2023 at 11:38
  
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Doonhamer says:

21/02/2023 at 17:51

The moral is:- Keep all your old books and read them to your grandchildren.
Remember the oldest data store has been clay tiles with funny marks pressed into them, then papyrus and vellum (Treated goat or sheepskin) .
Even old silver halide monochrome photographs.
How long did your floppy disks, magnetic tape, CDs, last?
Now you are trusting the Cloud!!!!.
History and literature could be changed in an instant.
And then you would think your memories were dreams.
Yeah. Click a switch and your house would warm up and the darkness be banished?
Fantasy.
Throw another old bone on the fire.

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